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Teaching vocabulary to your elementary students can be fun and engaging with these 5 ways to review vocabulary words! All of these vocabulary activities are great for collaborative purposes and geared towards 2nd graders through 5th graders. Use these vocabulary ideas for your word work, literacy centers, small group instruction, or even whole group activities. Try these out in your room today!

Small Group Intervention for UFLI Foundations Lessons

Understanding RTI and managing early intervention activities can be tough! From assessments to data tracking to planning RTI activities, there's a lot to cover. I'm sharing a FREE RTI checklist for intervention activities and sharing some of my favorite intervention activities for kindergarten, first, and second grade. You're sure to meet struggling readers where they are and move them through the RTI intervention process.

Make learning words fun and engaging with these must-try vocabulary activities for elementary. From interactive read-alouds to word games and vocabulary in context, discover effective strategies for teaching vocabulary in kindergarten, 1st grade, and 2nd grade. Help your students become skilled readers with these vocabulary activities that are perfect for structured literacy, including free printable vocabulary activities. Check it out today!

Learn How to Launch a Vocabulary Routine for your classroom this fall, and stay in the groove all year long.

How to Teach Vocabulary in Kindergarten

Kindergarten blog for teachers in the classroom. Ideas for homeschooling as well. Free files to your with your students.

A proven way to shrink the literacy gap between the literacy rich and literacy poor is by explicitly teaching vocabulary words. Backed by science of reading research, teachers should be directly teaching 3-5 words per text selection. Teachers of all grade levels should use an explict vocabulary routine to help students really own taught words! Explict vocabulary instruction and vocabulary strategies is one of the keys to good readers!

Get a full year's worth of focused tier 2 vocabulary instruction for your kindergarten classroom. This 32 week vocabulary curriculum includes all the vocabulary instruction, lesson plans, activities, discussions, word play games, digital and printable books, passages, vocabulary puzzles, writing response printables for vocabulary and word application, word guides for the teacher, and assessments! This vocabulary curriculum will expose your students to a variety of tier 2 vocabulary, while...

What's the secret to a great lesson? There are actually two of them: rigor and fun! Read this post to learn 10 ways to power up any lesson so that it's both challenging AND fun! the secret to a great lesson? There are actually two of them: rigor and fun! Read this post to learn 10 ways to power up any lesson so that it's both challenging AND fun!

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