Looking for books that will help your learners understand the concept of addition? Try these! The Blunders: A Counting Catastrophe! by Christina Soontornvat I read this book waaaay too many times at the request of my Four. In it, a woman has ten children. Exasperated by their behavior, she sends them out for the day. When it's time to return home, the Blunder children believe one of them is missing. This is because ... Read More
Color Me Readers
I created my Color Me Readers to help young readers learn concepts of print and basic sight words. Each set comes in three levels of difficulty so you can easily differentiate for your learners. Just click on image to get to the blog post and download the printable! Spring Fall 5 senses Community Helpers Insects Farm animals Arctic animals Fall Valentine's Day Extreme weather ... Read More
3 tips for improving fluency
TRT Podcast#20: 3 Tips for improving fluency How can we help struggling readers build fluency? In this episode you will learn how to teach what it means to be a fluent reader discover the best texts for students to use when partner reading learn what texts help students build fluency during independent reading Listen to the episode here Full episode transcript Resources and links mentioned in ... Read More
When kids can’t remember what they read
TRT Podcast#19: When kids can't remember what they read It's one of my least favorite experiences as a teacher or parent. I have a child who is halfway through a book; I ask them about it, but they look at me with a blank stare and can't tell me anything about it. There's hope! In today's episode I'm sharing 10 things you can do to help kids remember what they read. You will learn how to help learners ... Read More
Books about Fall
Check out my giant list of fall books for preschool and up! Over the years, I've shared quite a few book lists about fall - because I absolutely love this season! I'll start this post with a list of general books about fall. Down below, you can click on any of the images for even more books about fall ... apples, pumpkins, leaves, scarecrows, Halloween, and Thanksgiving! Here we go! Fall Is Not Easy, by Marty ... Read More
Fall visual discrimination activity
Grab this free visual discrimination activity for Fall! Visual discrimination activities are important. When kids have to look at a set of pictures and identify which one is different, they're practicing the skills they need to distinguish between letters and numbers. This is especially important when comparing tricky letters such as b and d. I simply printed the cards and asked my daughter to identify which image ... Read More
Editable fall spelling game
Check out this fun editable spelling game - perfect for fall! I know how hard it is to spice up spelling practice ... so I created this simple fall spelling game. The game cards are the same, but you can type your own words into the spelling word cards! The game is cute, but not too cute, so you can use it for kids in (late) first grade through fifth grade! To play, a student draws one of the 18 game cards ... Read More
15 fall sight word games (for all the Dolch lists!)
My blog subscribers have been asking for sight word games - so I created a set of games that feature all the Dolch sight words ... from the preprimer list all the way to the third grade list. There are 5 main lists for the Dolch sight words: preprimer, primer, first, second, and third grade. Since each game can only feature 20 words, I created three games for each level. You can find the level for each game in the ... Read More
Fall vocabulary activity
These free pocket chart sentences will help your preschooler learn some basic Fall vocabulary. We hope you have fun with them! (This post contains affiliate links.) If you haven't purchased our Fall Theme Pack yet, you haven't seen these fun pocket chart sentences that come in the giant bundle of preschool and kindergarten activities. We love pocket chart sentences for quite a few reasons! They teach basic ... Read More
When sight words won’t stick
TRT Podcast#18: When sight words won't stick What can you do when learners can't remember those tricky sight words ... no matter what you try? Today I'm sharing five tips that will help! You will learn how to teach new words explicitly how to practice the words both in context and in isolation how to make sight word learning multisensory Listen to the full episode here Full episode ... Read More