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...

Throughout the year the students have been using the IPad app Hokusai to record themselves reading their weekly poems. We use poems in the c...

Throughout the year the students have been using the IPad app Hokusai to record themselves reading their weekly poems. We use poems in the c...

As a part of our fluency and phonics practice focusing in s-blends, the students learned the poem "Spinning Spiders" which we reco...

In reading we have been working on s-blends. We practiced identifying them in text by reading and singing "I'm a Little Teapot....

The students recorded their weekly poem "My Dog, Tag" on the class IPad. We learned this poem to practice the sounds for short /a/...

Click here to listen to the students read one of their weekly poems "My Cat." The students learned this poem as we studied the so...

To listen to the students reading one of their weekly poems, "I Like Jam", click here . They love recording their poems each week ...

Each week the students learn one or two new poems. The poems are typically based on our phonics focus of the week. At the end of the week, t...

We have been learning the poem "Crayons" to practice reading color words. We have also been working on our fluency. To hear the st...

We have been learning to read and sing "A Hunting We Will Go" as a way to practice fluency and identifying rhyming words. To hear ...

Last Thursday night some of the students participated in our 2nd annual Literacy Cafe! Some of the students were hosts and hosstesses. They ...

This week we are learning more about poetry. In particular, we are learning about the use of rhyming, alliterations, and sensory details. Th...

This week we are learning about the different elements of poetry. Yesterday we read "Miss Mary Mack" to identify examples of allit...

Fellow teachers, several of you have asked how we do the podcasting in our class. At first I wasn't sure I could do this either, but  Mo...

Over the last few weeks we have been focusing on short vowel sounds. To help practice reading the sounds fluently, the students practiced th...

As guided reading today, the students practiced recording their favorite poems using Audacity software. They recorded again and again until ...

The Screen Actors Guild Foundation has a great website, Storyline Online , where actors read their favorite children's books. The site ...

This week to practice our fluency the students practiced the poem and song, "Christmas Cheer." The song is to the tune of "Th...

Last week we practiced reading and spelling the "dr" sound. To help us read the sounds fluently, we learned two new poems: "D...