I created a set of handwriting sheets for all of Fry's Instant Word Lists and added them to my Teachers Pay Teachers Store . These words...

A while back I stumbled across a site called A Story Before Bed . The site is intended for parents and grandparents to be able to record ...

Below are some sites that offer free read aloud stories. Read alouds are a great way for children to hear fluent reading. If you have the bo...

As a part of our grammar study of common and proper nouns, the students created a "Noun Neighborhood" during Daily 5. Each day the...

The students used Thinking Maps to organize their ideas of how to describe a pumpkin. They then wrote three sentences using those Maps. Each...

We read The Shape of Things by Dayle Ann Dodds to introduce the attributes of shapes. After reading the students were each given a random s...

We use the Daily 5 process in our class to help the students learn to read in fun, engaging ways. While I work with small groups on reading,...

One of my favorite phonics apps is Phonics Genius. The app has flash cards of short vowels, long vowels, blends, and digraphs. You have the ...

During our Daily 5 time, our main focuses are Read to Self, Read to Someone, and Working on Words. During Working on Words time, the student...

Each morning when the students arrive they begin Read to Self  or Read to Someone from Daily 5. I try to have the students read for 15-20 mi...

One of the many ways we practice our weekly word wall and phonics words is through the lessons and games on SpellingCity . The students love...

    Fellow teachers, I created a set of Word Family Train Sorts to use during Daily 5. If you are looking for word work ideas, stop...

As a part of Capturing Kids' Hearts , we have affirmation buckets in our class. When students finish work early or during our Guided Rea...

For morning work before announcements the students may choose books from the classroom library or their book boxes to read from independentl...