Kindergarten Reading

These guided reading note cards were created to be used as a quick reference when teaching and planning guided reading lessons for levels A - J (kdg. through beginning second grade). Each card has a list of skills to focus on during guided reading lessons at each guided reading level (Fountas/Pinne...

Dolch Pre-Primer Sight Word Pack!Use these sight words to practice in small groups, morning work, individually, for homework, or with the whole class! No prep for easy print and GO use!Get the Sight Word MEGA bundle and SAVE!ORBuy the smaller Bundle for a discount HERE!Want another way to practice ...

Holy Moly Cannoli! The month of May flew by wicked fast!! I woke up this morning realizing that June 9th is THIS weekend!! That mea...

A few months back I posted the 10 Activities for Learning Letters and Sounds activity kit that I developed for a few first graders who hadn’t yet mastered letters and sounds. The idea behind the kit was to provide fun, hands-on activities for either classroom voluteers or parents to work with their child at home. […]

Get students learning their CVC words in the most fun way ever! This secret words CVC center features 25 different mats covering all the short vowel sounds. Students can use erasable marker or magnetic letters to work out the secret words by writing down the beginning sound of each picture. It is pe...

This is the perfect little emergent reader to add to any farm-themed unit! This reader is based off teh book, Mrs. Wishy Washy by Joy Cowley. For more ideas and freebies head over to my blog: Beg, Borrow, Steal! www.mchaffiek.blogspot.com Hope to see you soon! :)...

Are you looking for my original sight word books? I created those books beginning in 2013. Why not? My original sight word books required readers to use pictures to help them solve words. I created them this way because I learned in graduate school that teaching young readers multiple cues for solving words was important […]

CVC Phoneme Segmentation Cards FREE

Mastering sight words is such an important part of learning how to read. These are words that you will see in almost all of the books you will read. I *love* when we learn a new sight word and my kids

I believe in doing anything and everything to encourage and inspire my students to fall deeply in love with words! Each day we explore phonics, our spelling words {these follow a specific spelling pattern}, and sight words during word work time. This fall I finally updated and spiced up our word work activities by creating one of my favorite new word work resources. It's made changing out stations EASY...like print and go easy...and my students can't wait to work with them! Of course, we…

Short A is usually the first phonics sound you teach in kindergarten and first grade so I figured it'd be a great sound to show you teaching...

These sight word activities are so easy to prepare! You can use them for preschool, kindergarten, and first grade -and even older students! I can see how many of these would work for kids in special education, too. #sightwords #teachingreading

Our students love decorating sight words! Here's a work station for putting small copies of the word "you" onto a large outline of the word. Get a free sample of 6 words here!

Guided Reading Activities Guided Reading Freebie: This free sample contains ready-made activities to engage your students during guided reading. Each activity is differentiated (high, middle, low) to meet the needs of your class and may be used with any leveled books. The activities in this free p...

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Kinder Craze reviews the wonderful year that was 2012 with the start of her blog and all the other amazing things that Kinder Craze has been through this year!