Word building activities

Today’s blog post will be a quickie. I was just so excited about my latest Target find, I had to share it with my teaching friends! So let’s get started with our build a sight word fun! I knew it was going to be a good trip because this was the first thing I saw when...

I just love it when you can find a way cheaper way of creating educational items. Sometimes ordering from a catalog can be so expensive. Word building activities are very important for our kindergarten and first grade kiddos as they learn that letters can be put together to make words. It’s so much more effective […]

Help kindergarteners and first graders learn to spell short vowel CVC words with this free printable CVC Word Building Mat and picture card prompt set. Phonics printable for kindergarten and first grade.

Practice blending onsets and rimes with this free printable roll and write phonics activity for kindergarten and first grade. Use with dry erase markers over and over again for literacy centers. Includes real and nonsense word identification too. via @Sha

Preschool cardboard craft for kids! Perfect for ocean themed learning. Preschool summer craft

Make these simple Lego letter blocks and print the free CVC word cards and make learning cvc and sight words fun!

Free Easter egg sight word activity. Break an egg, unscramble the letters and write it on the sheet. So fun! Get this and MORE great ideas to use with Easter eggs. Perfect for students with special learning needs. Very visual and hands on. Read more at: http://mrswheelerfirst.blogspot.com/2015/03/egg-cellent-activities.html

A kindergarten, first grade, and second grade teaching blog. I focus on writing, grammar, reading, and social studies.

Hi everyone, I'm finally ready to reveal my new guided reading pack and I'm so excited about it! Last year, I made it my mission to improve my guided reading

Sight Words and Word Families Okay. Please don’t get mad. I know I said I would blog about Filip’s next step on his reading journey wayyy back at the start of the year. And I didn’t. And that’s bad. I know… I’m sorry. Just so you know, I felt really guilty about it. I mean, I […]