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Word Family Rimes Chart

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Reading and spelling words by word family is a common practice that can help some readers understand how words are connected by patterns. So, to help kids practice reading or spelling the most common word family rimes, I made a quick reference word family rimes chart. Note: The free printable chart can be found at the END of this post. Just look for…
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FREE Beginning Sounds Chart

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This free beginning sounds chart is the perfect resource to have when making rhymes or working on word families with young children. If you’ve ever worked on rhyming words with young kids, you know how important beginning sounds are in that process. After all, to create rhyming words, all you do is take the beginning sound {or onset} off the…
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Capital Letters Graphic Organizer for Young Writers

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Capital letters. If you’ve taught young writers for very long, you know that these letters have a way of popping up uninvited, randomly placed in the middle of words or sentences. Sometimes, capital letters are forgotten at the beginning of sentences of people’s names. Not to fret. When kids are using conventions, like capital letters, incorrectly in their writing, I…
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Comprehension Questions: Moving Beyond “Right There” Questions

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Comprehension. It’s the ultimate goal of reading. In order to learn from or enjoy what we’re reading, we have to make meaning first. Comprehension questions are often used to see what kids do or don’t understand about what they read. If you search the internet for very long, you’ll discover loads of “comprehension activities” that ask only literal or “right there” questions. {This means…
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Build a Rhyming Snowman

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The ability to identify and create rhyming words is such an important pre-reading skill. My 3.5 year old LOVES to rhyme. We’ve done rhyming with DUPLO blocks, fished for rhymes, rolled our rhymes and of course, just play with rhymes through songs, books, and various fingerplays. So this winter, we did a little rhyming with a build a rhyming snowman activity. And today,…
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