Blending Cards are a great tool to use with students who are learning to read. The Blending Cards are formatted whole-page, but you can print them in many different page configurations to meet the needs in your classroom. Here are some ideas on how to print the blending cards in a variety of formats. Why use different formats? I used different formats when teaching different groups of students. Do you do whole group teaching and small group teaching? Do you like to send some students to work…

"Break an Egg" - using Easter eggs and letter tiles to help kiddos practice sight words

What a fun way to teach kids about punctuation marks! Have them add the right ones with stickers.

FREE Beginning Sounds Games for New Readers. Such a fun way to practice letter sounds! These would be a perfect literacy center activity.

Many of my first and second friends are now working with long vowel sounds. Those vowels can be so tricky as sometimes the vowel says a short sound and sometimes a long sound, and then to top it off, there are several different spelling patterns for long vowels. When our young readers are learning these […]

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Beginning Digraphs- Look at each picture and say the word. Write the missing letters and color the picture. This one is found in the Summer Review NO PREP Packet for Kindergarten. This packet is loaded with TONS of fun activities to keep students learning through the summer months.

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Learning to read CVC words takes lots of practice. Make it easier with this CVC word match! Use these free reading CVC sheets to practice CVC word matching!

Building CVC words is so much fun with bottle caps! I absolutely love bottle caps for literacy and math centers which you may remember from ...

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Do your students need help blending phonemes? Grab these fun blocks and this free onset and rime activity sheet on the post!

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Mastering letter sounds can be a tricky thing, and learning digraphs can be even more challenging. After all, now kids need to remember not only what letters say on their own, but what certain combinations say when put together! Since we are all about making learning fun, this cookie jar beginning digraph sort was the perfect way to […]

Sound it Out! CVC Fluency Packets are a great way to have children practice reading and writing simple CVC words in a variety of ways with different word families!