Literacy lessons

Cookie sheet activities are a perfect beginning of the year activity for your students with easy management and setup. These can transition nicely into your regular literacy rotation or be used as an intervention later in the year. #kindergarten #centers #classroomideas #cookiesheetcenters

Secret sentences literacy center. This is one of my favorite centers for students to practice beginning sounds, simple sight words, CVC words and sentence structure.

Make a simple rhyming activity to help practise rhyming pairs and learn about literacy in a playful, hands-on way! This would be great for both home and the classroom as a go-to resource on the shelf. We have been practising hearing and identifying rhyming words together recently and focused initially on identifying rhyming strings with...Read More »

Our 12 favorite alliteration books are the perfect addition to your alliteration and literacy lesson plans. These are great for preschool, kindergarten, or first grade students.

Hi friends, I've finally completed this CVC center packet and I'm so thrilled to share it with you. It's taken me a whole two weeks to get it done and it was so big that I had to split it into volumes. So this post is all about Volume One and it is packed full of fun and engaging activities to get your students learning about, practicing and mastering their short vowel words. The Activities This packet features 12 different activities which are designed to provide students with hands-on…

This free Alphabet Magnet Beginning Sounds Activity is great for Pre-K, Kindergarten, or early 1st graders who are working on letter sounds!

Hey guys! I wanted to swing past today to give you a sneak peak at what I have included in my Kindergarten Literacy Centers packet to help you start off the school year! PLEASE NOTE: This blog post contains sample pages from my Back to School Literacy Centers for Kindergarten packet. You can download the free sample …

The kids will love this editable gingerbread sight word write the room activity! Perfect for Christmas literacy centers in kindergarten or first grade!

Forty ideas to inspire you!

What do you observe in this picture? What details do you notice? What do see when observing it "closely"? What inferences can you make based on what you see in this picture? These are just a few of the questions that get kids thinking about some of the answers to many of the questions we ask them during close readings of a text. Picture of the Day is an inferring strategy I started with... Photo courtesy of Barbara Saia of Happy Go Smile ... students last year to increase their reading…