A Primary Teaching Blog
Back for another Wishlist Wednesday with Jen from Teacher by the Beach!If you missed last week’s Wishlist Wednesday, you can still see my Fluency Roll & Reads in action. This week’s deal is one of my FAVORITE classroom products, GRAMMAR READERS! Let’s take a peek inside one of the readers: They are organized by phonics pattern {each book has the… Read More
Fluency. A dreaded word at times. But here’s a super fun way to practice your phonics pattern as well as reading sentences. Grab dice (I use both these small foam dice or these large foam dice-affiliate links) roll it, pick a sentence, read it to a partner, & color it! Whatever pattern we are working on, we take… Read More
Someone always has to take the EOs 🙂 I’m the lucky one this year. I’ve got 30 little English-Only first graders in my 30 minute ELD time. Since they aren’t ELD students, I can’t teach them ELD standards! Yikes. So I came up with a plan. Fluency. Writing. Close Reading. I try to use every second of my 30 minutes… Read More
Happy November! I hope you got the most out of that extra hour of sleep 😉 {unless you’re in AZ or HI!} Can you believe it!? We’ve made it to November. I’ve been in school for…2 months. It seems like it’s been a whole year already… The start of the holiday season is upon us! I want to share one… Read More
We are 3 weeks in and I FINALLY got to teach a comprehension skill! Although my entire schedule will change next week {oh you know how schools work, they change things without notice}, I’m just happy to be getting into the content and actually getting to teach! So apparently, on our pacing guide, our first skill is “Main Idea” with… Read More
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So…moving down to 1st means I likely won’t have such great readers as my 2nd graders 😉 My biggest worry {you mean I can’t just say, sit and read quietly while I clean this thing up real fast!?!…life ruined..}! I’ve been asking around and most people are talking about sight words, sight words, SIGHT WORDS! Thankfully I had the pleasure of… Read More
Hi Friends! I’m so excited to be a part of Britney’s Summer Blog Hop! We still have 4 days left. FOUR DAYS! I sure wish we didn’t have to take it all the way to a Friday.. but we will survive! Some of you lucky ducks are already out! For those of you who aren’t yet, just enjoy the blog hop 😉… Read More
Some might say that sight words can be boring. That it always seems like you have to do the same old practices to get your students to learn their sight words. Right?! WRONG! Sight words can be loads of fun! Having taught the sight word intervention group at my school, I have been able to come up with some great ideas that have been really… Read More
Well, it’s almost April & Spring has officially “sprung” in my classroom. Kids bouncing off the walls, thinking they are grown folks. Yeesh! I hope it’s not just me! We had to have an impromptu kindness lesson the other day…it went AWESOME, but they are still a bit mean to each other. We all shared a time we’ve been hurt… Read More
