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After attending a conference focusing on multi-sensory education and Orton-Gillingham methods, I created these charts to assist teaching common spelling patterns and helpful reminders. The bright posters are great for whole group and small group instruction. Pull them out when teaching the skill and...

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When you want students to understand what reading looks like.

Give your students a smooth transition from concrete to abstract math using these number talks! Read the blog and get a freebie.

If your learner is working on blends or digraphs, you’ll want to grab a copy of these free phonics dice games for blends & digraphs. *This post contains affiliate links. **The free download can be found at the END of this post. A little background… My daughter, now in 2nd grade, went to a part-time school ... Read More about Phonics Dice Games for Blends and Digraphs

Vowel Teams are tough! In fact, many kids find success in decoding and encoding (reading and spelling) until getting to these higher level concepts. The problem is that many teachers never really had explicit instruction in phonics themselves. The result is we have an ambiguous, confusing part of ou

Introduce your students to the "Y" twins. I and E are twin brothers with different sounds. Use these cute y as a vowel activities to familiarize your students with the sound that each one makes.

Grab these NO PREP Spelling Pages your learners can use with ANY list of spelling words. Great for the classroom or at-home learning.

Homework is one of those things that you will either agree with or disagree. Agree, because you know it’s a way to help children to reinforce skills or it’s a good way to prepare them for content they will be covering or maybe you are using it for enrichment and extension. Disagree, because you are always chasing up kids who didn’t do their homework or struggling to find time to mark homework or even set homework, particularly if you are creating a worksheet for it. We can’t dispute the fact…

ESL Posters/Anchor Charts for Online & Classroom Instruction! Designed for all ages of English Language Learners, Literacy students. U.S. Citizenship Materials. Black & White Downloads. 3 Sizes: 8.5x11", 11x14", 17x22". Photos of diverse people & everyday objects. Essential vocabulary. Warm colors = longer viewing.

Facebook Twitter Pinterest Ready for your young learner to move on from CVC words? Learning beginning blends is the perfect next step for them. Moving on to beginning blends can be quite a difficult transition for some learners. These FREE fast and fluent games for beginning blends can provide some great practice to help. ARead More

FREE Phonemic Awareness Warm Up Activity for small group reading

In kindergarten, students begin to learn about place value by decomposing numbers into 10 and some ones. In first grade, students begin to transition to decomposing bigger numbers and exploring concepts of place value by decomposing numbers up to 100. Why teach place value? What do students need to do this? They’ll need to know ... Read More about Place Value Math Centers

If you are an upper elementary teacher, then chances are Greek and Latin Roots are part of your scope and sequence. But if they aren’t, OR if you are a departmentalized math/science teacher there is still plenty of great reasons why you should be explicitly teaching your students root words. Hopeful

Working on diphthongs with your learners? These free diphthong worksheets get learners spelling and writing those tricky patterns! You might also like our Spell the Chunk Diphthong cards. *This post contains affiliate links. **The free download can be found at the END of this post. Click on the teal, download button. FREE Diphthong Worksheets ... Read More about Diphthong Worksheets – Build & Write