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Picture Sorts For Short A & O

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Before moving on to short o word families, I did a simple sort with ALuv, comparing the vowel sounds in some short a and short o words.  This was a phonemic awareness activity because print was not involved and I was asking him to isolate the vowel sound in each word as he sorted them.  It took about 7-10 minutes…
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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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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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