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Reading is MAKING MEANING with Kevin Henkes Author Study
At the beginning of each school year my goal is for my students to...
HG Phonics Club: Building Fluency and Confident Readers
There are no words to express how excited we are about the launch of...
Building Sentences, Expanding Sentences & Types of Sentences
I love teaching. It's the thing that I know I'm good at. The one...
Teaching Dialogue and Point of View
It's MARCH!!! WOOHOOO! But... it's also been SNOWING all day. I'm...
Context Clues: Becoming Word Savvy
Fall is HERE.... Well, it might be fall season... but it's still 85...
Worms and NOUNS
Well.... We've made it through 16 FULL days of first grade! My...
Teaching Phonics in the Classroom with Decoding Drills and Decodable Activities
Decoding is the process of reading words! AUTOMATIC WORD RECOGNITION...
Decoding Drills for Fluency – Phonics Fast Reads
As a first grade teacher, my goal is for my students to become...
Guided Reading and the Reading Process – Step 2 READING
After pre-reading comes the FUN PART - READING! You can read all...
Guided Reading and The Reading Process: Step 1 Pre-Reading
Sixteen years ago... I was a first year teacher... I had NO IDEA...
Balloons Over Broadway Read Aloud Activities and STEM
Anyone else LOVE the book Balloons Over Broadway? Learning about the...
Thanksgiving Escape Room Mystery – The Case of the Missing Thanksgiving Dinner
Anyone else love a quick and easy escape room?!?! Students love...
Our Class Is A Family Back to School Activities
I love using the book Our Class is a Family at the beginning of the...
Sight Words
I'm so excited to be joining some other great bloggers for our...
Fluency in the Classroom
One of my main goals as a first grade teacher is to develop fluent...
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