Literacy lessons

Discover 43 hands-on rhyming activities to help you teach rhyming and word families to your kindergarten and preschool children. These educational games and hands-on activities are an effective and fun way to teach rhyming words. Perfect for your literacy lessons and centers.

Science of reading lesson plans that follow an Orton-Gillingham approach with a free file. Learn the research and how to implement SOR your classrooms.

A blog about teaching activities for second grade, third grade, and fourth grade.

Check out the best list of 35 simple and fun literacy activities for kids that you can do at home or in the classroom!

How to create a retell literacy center in kindergarten. Plus a list of 20 famous stories and retell props (with printables) to complete this center.

Literacy Center Ideas - hands-on literacy center activities perfect for 5-8 years | you clever monkey

Second graders need to have hands-on practice with ELA skills in a meaningful way. This post shares some fun 2nd Grade literacy center ideas.

CRACK THE CODE CARDS - perfect for children learning the beginning sounds and practice blending sounds into simple words | you clever monkey

Dragons Love Tacos Reading Lesson Ideas for 2nd grade. Reading comprehension strategies and responding to literature with these fun activities and ideas.

I Spy a Sound are fun and engaging phonics activities that you can use to work on letter sounds with your kindergarten students. This is a fun way to work on phonemic awareness and onset sounds. Use for whole group lessons, literacy centers, morning tubs, morning work or for guided groups.

Good Writers Anchor Chart for Kindergarten and First Grade

In this blog post: Download a set of decodable readers based on your favorite fairytales and folktales including The Little Red Hen, The Three Little Pigs, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, Jack and the Beanstalk, and The Three Billy Goats Gruff. If you’ve been around for a while, you know that one of my favorite […]

Let's discover science of reading aligned centers. You will be able to fully integrate science of reading into your literacy centers.

Tips for Primary Teachers.

My students love working on writing blends and digraphs through this fun Blends and Digraphs Write and Wipe Activity! Once my students master the ability to read and write CVC words, then we move on to introducing blends and digraphs. After introducing the sounds, I put these activity mats into their literacy center rotations. Each student will pull a card, say the word, write the word, and use the word in a sentence. When students are able to complete the activity mat with accuracy, I offer…

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Play this super fun sight word game to improve reading skills! This is a great way to practice fluency with beginning readers! Oh Snap! is can be tailored to your child's reading ability & is perfect for Kindergarten, 1st Grade, and/or 2nd Grade. #sightwords #readingskills #makelearningfun