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 ...
Guided Reading: Tools, Activities & Ideas
Fun, standards-based and age-appropriate activities and resources to help you plan smart for your guided reading groups.
Rhyming and Blending Onsets and Rime {free printables}
Learning to read CVC words is key to reading success in kindergarten. Learning to rhyme in addition to blending onsets ...
Nonsense Words Race Car Reading Activity
Looking through favorite games I've used in my guided reading groups, I found this free race car reading activity. I ...
How to Teach Kinders to Segment and Blend Using Hand Motions
Recently I shared that I use hand motions often when teaching to not only help keep my kinders engaged both ...
Build-a-House Onset and Rime Activity (CVC Word Building)
Work on beginning reading skills with a fun building block activity. This free onset and rime activity is perfect for ...
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 use ...
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 ...
Beginning Sounds – 5 Guided Reading Activities {Printable}
Learning how to read means learning lots of intertwining skills - like beginning sounds. Here is my list of my top ...
Long Vowel Patterns Roll Say Keep Game
Keeping higher readers in kindergarten challenged appropriately doesn't mean more work, or even more {{uuugh}} ...
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 ...
Handy 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 groups. You ...
6 Fun Ways to Teach Reading With Dollar Tree Race Cars
When it comes to shopping at the Dollar Tree, I'm always looking for ways to keep the fun in standards-based ...
Easy “Flash Card Flash” Game
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 ...
Ending Sounds – 9 Guided Reading Skill Group Materials {Printables}
During many guided reading sessions, I would plan a warm up activity that works on a skill my kindergartners need. ...
A Fun Way to Get Kinders Blending CVC Words
Using fun phonics games and reading activities make guided reading groups easier. Here's a new blending cvc words with ...
4 Easy to Use ‘Spin and Change’ Word Work Phonics Games
Teaching reading skills through games now helps make up half of my guided reading group instruction time. This is a ...
6 Alphabet Identification Guided Reading Activities
We teach so many different skills to develop young readers. Here is my list of my top teaching alphabet identification ...
3 Hands-On Kindergarten Word Work Ideas
Accomplish kindergarten word work Common Core standards with manipulative learning. Playdough, magnets, and dry erase ...
