Word Reading

A fun hands on way to practice printing sight words, spelling, alphabet letters and pre-printing shapes.

Read, Write, Build- Pre-Primer and Primer sight words. Perfect for Guided Reading and Word Work centers.

I am SO excited to finally be able to post the first unit for Ready2Read Level 2! This has truly been a labor of love and I couldn't be happier with the

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Teaching kids about writing sentences with all the parts of speech can be a bit boring and dry. I vividly remember diagramming sentences as a child and wishing I was doing anything but that! But at the same time, teaching sentence structure and the parts of speech is important for kids to understand. That’s why I ... Read More about Writing Sentences: A Roll and Write Activity

This post will share some word work I am using in my classroom this week. I made this stamping books for sight words. I found that the size of the book is perfect for K's. I put the four/five words we are working on that week stapled together. They read write and stamp each word. You can click on the pages below. Unfortunately, I could not upload them all together! You need to cut the page in half. You can see below is the cover and the bottom page. The bottom page is blank, I let the child…

Phew… It’s finally done! It feels like we’ve been working on Cookie Sheet Challenge Volume 3 forever! I think that’s because Kyle so wonderfully took the time to draw a unique picture for the nearly 55 sentences contained in the Sight Word Sentences activity. It was so well worth the wait because the art is AWESOME! I love the […]

Sight word play dough activity mats - build it, read it, trace it, and write it

Fluency is such an important aspect of reading, but it's often something that we only think of working on with our highest readers. I am constantly trying to think of ways to work on fluency even wit

I've been trying to find the time to sit down and create some new centers and I was finally able to do that today. I'm still working on a co...

A blog of teaching ideas and activities for K-2 classrooms, including centers, reading and writing ideas, thematic learning, and much more!

While working in Arkansas recently, I talked with kindergarten teachers about finding the right kind of text for shared reading. I look for books and poems that are close to the guided reading leve…

Pinky is 5 years, Chaos is 3 years, Wild One is 17 months, and Sprout is 1 month Counting and Numbers We read two great books about numbers this week. The first, aimed more at the younger kids, was 1,2,3 to the Zoo by Eric Carle. It's a simple animal counting story, but, as with all Eric Carle books, is beautifully illustrated. The second book we read was a new one to me, but has quickly become one of my favorites - Numbers, Counting in the Natural World. Filled with beautiful nature…

Free, fun and useful Kindergarten - 1st Grade, Common Core aligned lesson plans, math games, calendars, behavior charts, materials and more!

Wow - I am just tickled that so many (800!!!) people are following along to grab all the resources. I am so happy that so many are enjoying the items :) As a "THANK YOU" for tagging along, please enjoy this new sight word set (first 50 sight words). You can use this in your independent centers or however you wish:) You can get these here!