by Melinda | Jan 20, 2020 | Literacy
Whether you’re teaching CVC words or working on different vowel sounds or focusing more on complex words, your students need lots of practice. Literacy resources including games, worksheets, fortune tellers, posters, literacy walls, and fluency boards all help...
by Melinda | Dec 2, 2019 | Literacy
I love seeing things click for kids when they are learning CVC words. I love to watch them segmenting and blending words until they get them. I love seeing them gain familiarity with words so they don’t need to sound them out. And that takes practice. I know that...
by Melinda | Nov 24, 2019 | Literacy
Tackling CVC words is kind of a push and pull. Students need both blending and segmenting skills when reading and spelling CVC words. With segmenting, students pull apart individual sounds in words such as in sat: /s/ /a/ /t/. With blending, students push sounds...
by Melinda | Nov 17, 2019 | Literacy
I don’t know about you, but I can always use more spelling word activities. The tricky part is that so many activities use specific word lists … which may or may not coincide with the words you want or need to teach. That’s where spelling word activities, that you can...
by Melinda | Nov 10, 2019 | Literacy
Spelling so often seems like learning rules and memorizing sounds and patterns. But what happens when our spelling lessons or activities use the 3 story intellect? Students learn to: Gather information Process information Apply information And at the same time, they...
by Melinda | Oct 27, 2019 | Literacy
Do you use writing prompts to teach phonics? They are a fabulous and sometimes overlooked tool. Writing prompts are a great addition to the worksheets, activities, and phonics games that you probably already use in your phonics or literacy stations. Plus they are easy...
