Reading

Small group reading time is powerful, but keeping students engaged can be tricky! Hands-on activities for small group reading make learning fun while building

𝙎𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚 𝙗𝙪𝙞𝙡𝙙𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙗𝙮 @myteachermummyandme👇🤓 “I set this activity up for Emilia to encourage sentence building and making her vocabulary more interesting in her writing. This is also a good activity if you have reluctant writer too because it’s less daunting than a big piece of blank paper. On a strip of cardboard I wrote ‘The’ for the starter then added the coloured squares so Emilia could match the adjective,noun, adverb, verb, prepositional phrase to form a sentence."

Introducing the Silly Sentence Builder - a delightful, printable product designed to make learning parts of speech entertaining and engaging for children! This interactive tool features five columns filled with a variety of nouns, adjectives, and verbs, carefully crafted to create hilarious sentences when combined on the sliding band. The Silly Sentence Builder allows kids to explore their creativity by constructing their very own whimsical sentences. The result? Silly and imaginative...

I love using sentence building as an activity to teach the parts of speech. Students learn the various parts of speech and how they work together to form complete sentences. This sentence building activity can also be used when teaching complete vs. run-on sentences or when teaching compound and complex sentences. This activity was a favorite for my early finishers and makes a great word work station.

I love this idea of creating ''synonym Rolls" to help the students learn

These engaging phoneme blending activities for kindergarten are a great addition to your small group phonological awareness practice. Help your students practice blending phonemes with these engaging activities. Click here to take a closer look at these phonological awareness activities for phoneme blending practice.

What is the best way to teach main idea and details in your 1st or 2nd grade classroom? Peruse our collection of engaging ideas!

Susan Jones on Instagram: "Looking for a fun and effective way to incorporate multi-sensory learning into your phonics and phonemic awareness lessons?! This simple tool made from pipe cleaners and beads is both engaging and helps students really segment sounds, syllables, and words in a sentence! There are so many uses for these little tools - I would keep it with students’ literacy boxes and letter tiles for easy access. Would your students love these?! #phonemicawareness #literacytools...

Phonemic awareness is such an important foundational reading skill for kindergarten and first grade students. So in this post, I'm sharing how you can get your students back on track after a little bit of summer slide with these phonemic awareness activities and drills! These ideas and activities can also be used over Zoom or Google Meets, so they're relevant whether you're physically in the classroom or not!

free editing activity for commonly confused words(homophones, homographs, homonyms) in upper elementary language arts

Sight Word Battleships is a fun and engaging way to practice reading sight words. Learners get lots of practice as they use sight words as the coordinates.

If you’re looking to switch up your word work routines this year, I’ve got a Top 5 List for you which hopefully will add some new pep to your word work activities! Word work can become monotonous for readers (and you) so one way to make it more engaging throughout the year is by simply switching up the materials used. Kiddos often get very excited to try out a new manipulative, or reuse one that they haven't used in a while. Continue reading to check out the ones I currently recommend for...