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Small Group | Sight Words
Ideas, products, and insights on practicing sight words in your resource room, classroom, and small groups.
I LOVE using mentor texts to teach reading skills in upper elementary! In this blog post, I talk about four of my favorite mentor texts that I like to use when teaching predictions and inferences with my 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders. You can find descriptions of the texts and links to the books found on Amazon. I have even included a FREE Mentor Text Cheat Sheet to help you organize your mentor texts & the reading skills you teach with them! {third, fourth, fifth grade, reading comprehension}
Teaching primary grades or special education means sight words should be part of your daily review. Students required repeated exposure to allow mastery of recognition. Whether you utilize these 6 fun ways as a whole class, centers, or small groups, they are sure to create a more exciting way of practice for your kids. This blog post shows a few quick, simple games and ideas to to help reinforce your students recognition of sight words. {lower elementary, special education, centers}
Special Education Teachers in 1st, 2nd, and 3rd grades can have a hard time finding reading interventions that are perfect for covering MANY skills. In this reading intervention for special education, you'l find help with phonics, decoding, sight words, reading comprehension, fluency, writing, and grammar.
So many teachers, they are looking everywhere to find what they need. Well, now you can STOP! Join thousands of Special Education Teachers who are LOVING this reading intervention. You can confidently practice decoding, sight words, reading comprehension, reading fluency, writing, and grammar in one half an hour small group time! Get a free week here!
Inclusion is hard for both the general education teacher and the special education teacher. This is my list of thoughts that I always want to share to my general education colleagues.
In this intervention, you'll have a weekly routine that helps your kids cover many things in an interactive way. All kids are participating and learning as we tap high frequency words, pound decodable words, and read our stories three times. We also work to correct sentences, draw, and write!
These centers will allow your special education students to: Work Independently, Gain Confidence, Practice Skills from the Red Level of my Reading Intervention, and Have a Realistic Amount of Work Who doesn't love print and go? These ten centers require ZERO prep and will allow you to practice skills without explaining directions every single day because the activities will repeat over and over throughout the year. 10 Centers x 40 Weeks = 400 Stress Free Centers for the Entire Year
Trying to prepare your special education students for high stakes testing? Here is a reading intervention that helps your students gain confidence in reading while helping them build skills that are needed for testing, Each week your students will read paired passages, support answers with text evidence, answer open-ended questions, review vocabulary, and write a prompt using all they have learned throughout the week. Grab yours today!
In special education, assessing a present level of performance (PLOP) is critical to writing IEP goals. This blog post will tell you everything you need to know about quickly assessing your students in letter recognition, letter sounds, decoding, sight words, number recognition, counting, 1:1 correspondence, and early reading skills.
Progress Monitoring doesn't have to be something that takes a lot of time. With these pre-written goals and forms, you can progress monitor your RTI & IEP Goals in minutes!
Struggling to find a new, engaging way to practice letters and sounds? These 4 game will make it simple. Whether you play for 2 minutes or 20, your early elementary students will love the games. Download the freebie to take advantage of the printable letter cards and bingo boards. You can also purchase progress monitoring tools to ensure your students are retaining the information. These 4 ideas will require little prep and can be utilized in small groups or centers.
