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  • Learn how to help your students build reading stamina in kindergarten and first grade.

    How to Build Reading Stamina in Kindergarten and First Grade

  • Grab a free sample so you can try out this phonics routine that actually works!

    The Phonics Routine That Actually Works (Plus a Free Sample to Try It!)

  • Learn how to teach the foundational reading skills of fiction vs. nonfiction using these lesson ideas and resources.

    Fiction vs. Nonfiction: How to Teach This Foundational Reading Skill in K-2

  • Celebrate Read Across America week with these digital and printable low-prep activities that are perfect for k-2.

    Everything You Need for Read Across America Week

  • Use this post as your stress-free guide to planning an engaging reading week for your lower elementary students!

    Your Stress-Free Guide to Planning an Engaging Reading Week

  • Learn why phonics and crafts is a powerful combo for early readers.

    Why Phonics + Crafts = A Powerful Combo for Early Readers

  • Learn how to teach nouns, verbs and adjectives in k-2 without losing your mind!

    How to Teach Nouns, Verbs, and Adjectives in K-2 (Without Losing Your Mind)

  • Find out the secret to easy, independent phonics centers in the k-1!

    The Secret to Easy, Independent Phonics Centers in K–1

  • Take students from sounds to sentences using engaging decodable digraph practice activities like interactive passages and word searches.

    From Sound to Sentence: Decodable Digraph Practice

  • These engaging and interactive digraph practice activities are perfect for centers and small groups.

    Engaging & Interactive Digraph Practice for Centers and Small Groups

  • These resources and strategies will show you how to introduce digraphs in the primary classroom.

    How to Introduce Digraphs in the Primary Classroom

  • Teaching vowel teams is easy with these 5 tips for teaching this important phonics skill in first grade.

    5 Tips for Teaching Vowel Teams in First Grade

  • This photo showcases decodable texts focusing on different cvce word patterns.

    The Best Decodable Texts for Teaching CVCE Word Patterns

  • Helping students learn about fiction and nonfiction books is easy with the ideas in this blog post.

    Teaching Fiction and Nonfiction to Primary Grade Students

  • Read about how I use Decodable Reading Passages in my First Grade classroom. Get a free set to try in your own classroom!

    How to Use Decodable Reading Passages in First Grade

  • Use these controlled texts activities to help you young readers of all levels feel successful this year.

    Differentiated Instruction with Controlled Texts: Activities for First Grade Readers of All Levels

  • Use cloze reading activities to help your first grade with reading comprehension skills

    How to Use Cloze Reading Activities to Improve Reading Comprehension

  • Learn how to use "magic e" as a fun and effective way to master cvce words!

    Magic E: The Fun and Effective Way to Master CVCe Words

  • Use these tips to help your students learn how to decode reading passages this year.

    How To Use Decodable Reading Passages

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Phonics crafts that are actually phonics practice? Phonics crafts that are actually phonics practice? Yes, please! ✂️ These digraph crafts are more than just something cute to hang on the wall! Students read the words, identify the digraphs, and sort and glue the words onto their crafts. So they’re getting plenty of phonics practice along the way! And the best part? I have these crafts for blends, magic e, vowel teams, and more! Comment CRAFTS and I’ll send you the link! 💜
Independent reading lasting about 3 minutes? Been Independent reading lasting about 3 minutes? Been there 😅 When I taught reading stamina, I always started small. A goal they could actually reach, lots of talking about what good reading habits look like, and a few ideas for what to do when they start losing focus. It takes time, but it does get better! And before you know it, those few minutes start turning into much longer stretches of focused reading 🤩 Save this for your independent reading time or comment STAMINA and I’ll send you the link to these activities.
Teaching a new phonics skill? You don’t need to co Teaching a new phonics skill? You don’t need to come up with a completely different lesson every day 😅 I love the idea of giving students multiple opportunities to practice the same skill in different ways. With this routine, students get to practice through a craft, worksheet, phonics crown, word search, and decodable passage. And the best part? You can use the same routine for so many different phonics skills! Want to try it? I have a FREE sample using the SH digraph. Comment PHONICS and I’ll send it to you 💛 #iteachfirst #iteachkinder #firstyearteacher
Need an easy sentence editing routine you can just Need an easy sentence editing routine you can just print and use? Students read the sentence, find the mistakes, and fix it. Simple, consistent practice without having to reinvent the routine every week. Comment FIXIT and I’ll send you the link!

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