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Leveled Book Databases

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Here are a few online resources for finding books that are on your child’s “just right” reading level.  Before I post them, here is a helpful chart that shows reading level correlations.  If you’ll also notice in the chart and databases, beside the letter level is an AR number that may look something like this 3.5.  This means 3rd grade,…
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Tuesday’s Teaching Tip

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  “Just Right” for Independent Reading Like the beds in Goldilocks and the Three Bears, books can be too hard, too “soft” (easy) and just right.  In order to become a more fluent reader and comprehender, students need to be reading “just right” books, particularly during independent reading time.  Does this mean kids should never look or read books that are too…
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Easter Egg Word Families

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I came across this cool idea on how to integrate Easter eggs and literacy quite a few months back and wanted to share it before Easter…not a minute to spare!  We’re over here playing with Easter eggs right now (actually ALuv is spinning them on our hardwood floors) and it reminded me of this activity regarding Easter eggs and word families.  We…
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April Showers

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It has rained a tremendous amount over the last 3 weeks where we live!  And then there’s also the old saying: “April showers bring May flowers.”  So we did a few rain activities together.  I meant to post this last week, but forgot… Day 1: Read aloud Rain by Robert Kalan (illustrated by Donald Crews).  I would classify this book on an early to mid-Kindergarten reading…
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Saturday’s Sites

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Okay, so I admit it: I’m a little cheesy with my alliteration in the title to this post, but you get the picture.  Each Tuesday I present a teaching tip, so I thought I’d use Saturdays to tell you about sites I think that are very helpful and/or pretty cool to this reading mama. So, here are this Saturday’s Sites: Free Printable Writing Paper– For PreK…
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