I recently added new Word Wall Headers to my Teachers Pay Teachers store . These are sets of colorful, round alphabet labels to use for your...

The students competed in against "houses" in a spelling bee. Mrs. Guzman called out a word to the first person in the line and if ...

One of our favorite word work lessons is Making Words. The students use a set of letters to build various words that build up to a mystery w...

Here is a quick video I made using the App "Explain a Website" to show you how to access the features of Spelling City at home. ...

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 ...

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...

Last week we were studying various sounds including /sl/, /sp/, and /st/. We also were having "college week" in our district. So, ...

Since we were studying about both pets and shapes last week, we decided to make shape pets. The students chose from a variety of shapes whic...

As we studied short /e/, the students were invited to bring in a picture of their pet. Each week we are trying to have a special phonics foc...

A few weeks ago we were reading various stories about school. One of the books we read was Chrysanthemum by Kevin Henkes - one of my favorit...

I found this fun refrigerator magnet game at ABCya! that your children can use to practice spelling their word wall and phonics words. You...

We use a word activity in class called Making Words by Patricia Cunningham . In this activity the students use a set group of letters to bra...

I recently updated our First Grade Word Wall PowerPoint . The slideshow advances every five seconds to reveal a new word. You can help your ...

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 I was lesson planning, I came across an interesting site, Scribble , that reminds me of our classroom activity of  Making Words by Patric...

Several parents have asked if there are any specific items that you can buy to help your child with their reading and math. My best advice i...

Each week we write using a program called Write From the Beginning . The program uses Thinking Maps to teach the students how to organize th...

One of our favorite activities in class is to make words from a combination of set letters. When all the letters are used they make a myste...