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Inside a Writer’s Notebook and Guest Post

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Back in the fall, I worked through a 12-week writing series called Simple Writing Lessons for the Primary Grades. It dawned on me that while we were sharing all these wonderful ideas, I never showed readers how I was organizing all these lessons and ideas in my son’s Writer’s Notebook. Today, I’m sharing a guest post over at The Notebooking Fairy about…
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FREE Beginning Blend BINGO

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My son (age 5) is really beginning to understand how sounds in words work (as known as phonological awareness). He wants to know how words are spelled and asks me quite often about sounds in words. I simply adore how curious he is. After working through all our letter sounds last year with Reading the Alphabet, this year he was…
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FREE Winter Pre-K/K Pack {Updated and Expanded}

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My Winter Pack has been updated and expanded! It includes: 2 emergent readers with multi-leveled activities (appropriate for early readers through Kindergarten) phonics works (for upper and lower case) early reading activities- rhyming words, syllables, letter sounds fine motor work- tracer pages, lacing cards, and poke page concept sorts and activities about Winter FREE download link is at the END of…
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FREE Winter-Themed Spelling Game {Word Bump}

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Winter Word Bump!, a winter-themed spelling game that can be played with ANY spelling list, is here. {Sh. Don’t tell my boys. They haven’t even played it…yet.} If you are new to This Reading Mama and aren’t familiar with Word Bump!, you can read more about how we play it and why I like it so much here–> Thanksgiving Word…
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FREE January Writing Prompts

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Today, I’m sharing my FREE January Writing Prompts. Included on the download (at the end of post) are 8 writing prompts related to winter/snow. Young writers (K-2nd grade) choose a prompt, write, then color in that portion of the picture. Please note that these writing prompts are only suggestions. If your child would like to write using a variation of…
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