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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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Syl-la-ble Sort

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Recently, ALuv and I did a syllable sort.  It had been a long time since we had talked about syllables and I felt fairly certain that he could count and identify syllables in a word, an important skill for emergent readers. I decided to put a new spin on the concept, though.  My goal was for him to discover from this activity that…
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-at hat slider

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pa lottery I said I’d post my -at hat slider what seems like forever ago to go with this lesson.  Thank you for to my WONDERFUL husband for solving the scanning issue with our printer! You can make this activity more difficult by whiting out the onsets I’ve chosen and putting in blends (such as fl-) or digraphs (such as…
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Quick Tips for Independent Work

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When you’re teaching more than one learner, independent work is necessary. In order to work one-on-one with a child or with small groups of learners, the other learners need to be doing something. If independent work is not executed in a purposeful manner, it can become a necessary “evil”, serving to frustrate your learner(s) and you! Do you ever find yourself…
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Short a Review

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After studying 5 different short a word families (-at, -an, -ad, -ap, and –ag) with ALuv, we took a break from doing more short a word families and reviewed the short a word pattern (CVC).  I felt that he was ready to do this because he was able to sound out and read short a words we had not studied,…
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