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Guided Reading: Tools, Activities & Ideas

Fun, standards-based and age-appropriate activities and resources to help you plan smart for your guided reading groups.

Free Highlight-a-Letter Sheets for Kindergarten

Free Highlight-a-Letter Alphabet Sheets for Kindergarten

Work on letter identification and visual discrimination with these alphabet sheets. Here is a set of free letter ...

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Free Letter Name Game for Kindergarten_ Treasure Quest

Free Letter Name Game for Kindergarten: Treasure Quest

Work on naming letters with a simple alphabet game for kindergarten. Print this free pirate-themed treasure quest card ...

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Free Naming Letters Activity for Kindergarten I Spy Jungle Letters

Free Naming Letters Activity: I Spy Jungle Letters

Go on an alphabet search and play I-Spy. Here is a free naming letters activity for kindergarten that encourages ...

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Teach - How to Write Sight Words Fluently in Kindergarten

Teach How to Write Sight Words Fluently

My students need to know sight words. They are a key step in the reading process. They aren't the end-all-be-all, but ...

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Rhyming and Blending Onsets and Rime

7 Free Blending Onset and Rime Mini-Books for Kindergarten

Learning to read CVC words is key to reading success in kindergarten. Learning to rhyme in addition to blending onsets ...

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Free Nonsense Words Race Car Reading Activity

Free Race Card Reading Activity - CVC Nonsense Words

Looking through favorite games I've used in my guided reading groups, I found this free race car reading activity. ...

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How to Teach Kinders to Segment and Blend Using Hand Motions

Use simple hand motions and a basic office supply tool to help teach kindergarteners how to sound out words. You'll be ...

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Let's Build a House - Free CVC Word Building Activity

Let's Build a House! Free CVC Word Building Activity

Work on beginning reading skills with a fun building block activity. This free onset and rime activity is perfect for ...

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Free Rhyming Activities for Kindergarten Small Groups

8 Free Rhyming Activities for Kindergarten

Let's teach how to rhyme with these rhyming activities for kindergarten. Here are 8 free rhyming activities you can ...

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A new approach to teaching guided reading

Why My Guided Reading Groups Weren't Exactly Guided Reading Groups

Do you find yourself needing more time to teach everything we're supposed to? Yeah, me too. One of the ways I felt ...

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4 Free Beginning Sounds Guided Reading Activities

4 Free Beginning Sounds Activities for Small Groups

Learning how to read means learning lots of intertwining skills - like beginning sounds. Here is my list of my top ...

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Long Vowel Patterns Roll Say Keep Game

Free Long Vowel Patterns Roll, Say, Keep! Game

Keeping higher readers in kindergarten challenged appropriately doesn't mean more work, or even more {{uuugh}} ...

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12 Must-have guided reading tools for kindergarten

12 Must-Have Guided Reading Tools to Use in Kindergarten

Keep fun reading tools on hand to encourage kindergarten readers. Here are my must-have reading tools that are fun and ...

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How to Make Guided Reading Mats for Kindergarten Groups

How to Make Guided Reading Mats for Kindergarten Groups

I like working smart and one way I found to do that was by making sets of handy charts to use during guided ...

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6 Fun Ways to Teach Reading in Kindergarten With Dollar Tree Race Cars

6 Fun Ways to Teach Reading With Toy Race Cars

When it comes to shopping at the Dollar Tree, I'm always looking for ways to keep the fun in standards-based ...

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Easy "Flashcard Flash" Game for Kindergarten

Simple is my style. So when you find a game or tool that is simple and can be used for many things - it's a keeper in my ...

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Ending Sounds Activities for Small Groups

6 Free Ending Sounds Activities for Small Groups

Practice ending sounds while teaching kindergarten readers in small groups. Here are my favorite free ending sounds ...

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Roll n' Read: A Fun Way to Blend CVC Words in Kindergarten

Using fun phonics games and reading activities make guided reading groups easier. Here's a new blending cvc words with ...

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4 Clever Spinner Word Games for Kindergarten

Teaching reading skills through games now helps make up half of my guided reading group instruction time. This is a ...

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Free Letter Naming Activities for Small Groups

6 Free Letter Naming Activities for Small Groups

We teach so many different skills to develop young readers. Here is my list of my top teaching alphabet identification ...

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3 Hands-On Word Work Ideas for Kindergarten

Accomplish kindergarten word work Common Core standards with manipulative learning. Playdough, magnets, and dry erase ...

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