My class will be learning about fairy tales soon, so I wanted to create a unit of sorts that I could use during the week(s). The result is an 87 page unit called Fabulous Fairy Tales! It is for sale at my TeachersPayTeachers store. Fabulous Fairy Tales is an 87 page unit that provides writing, math, science, and literacy activities… Read More
In a couple of weeks my kiddos will be working on words with suffixes -er and -or. I decided to make a little game for them to practice reading words with these suffixes. I am posting it here, for free, for my fellow bloggers. I am also posting it on TPT, but you can get it here, from my blog,… Read More
My school uses Scott Foresman Reading Street. There are things I like and do not like about this series. Luckily, my principal pretty much lets us teach reading however we choose and does not make us use the series the way it is laid out. That’s a post for another time! I do closely follow the phonics component and introduce… Read More
How many of you use The Great Poetry Race in your classroom? I started using it this year, and I love it! Basically, students practice a poem all week. They read the poem to family, neighbors, other adults and each time they read it, the person they read to signs their paper. The purpose is to increase fluency. I give… Read More
