ABCs of Teaching Reading

Action ABC's: Learning Vocabulary With Verbs ReadWriteThink couldn't publish all of this great content without literacy experts to write and review for us. If you've got lessons plans, activities, or other ideas you'd like to contribute, we'd love to hear from you. More Find the latest in professional publications, learn new techniques and strategies, and find out how you can connect with other literacy professionals. More Teacher Resources by Grade Your students can save their work with Student Interactives. More Home › Classroom Resources › Lesson Plans Lesson Plan Overview Featured Resources From Theory to Practice Students are likely to know many more words than they use in their writing. back to top Alphabet Organizer: This interactive tool allows students to create an alphabet chart or letter pages with words that start with each letter of the alphabet. Johnson, D.D. (2000).

10 Things Not to Say to Your Kids - The Kid Counselor™ When I think about all of the phrases, anecdotes, and sayings about the power of the spoken word I am reminded of how I changed my way of communicating with children upon learning Play Therapy principles. I realize that using Play Therapy based language is a learned and practiced skill that requires time and effort, so I thought it would be helpful to share ten commonly used phrases parents say to their kids. I will also give the Play Therapy based alternative with a short explanation of why it is more effective. 1. No (running, hitting, yelling, fill in the verb)! Kids hear the word “no” far too frequently (Read more about that here). 2. I have spent a good deal of time on articles on the difference between Praise vs. 3. Children are programmed to question, analyze and wonder about situations. 4. This does two things. 5. I can’t tell you the number of times I hear that phrase when around other parents, even though it is highly ineffective. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Please share this post

3 minute reading assessments: Word Recognition, Fluency & Comprehension 3 Ways To Create a Differentiated Learning PD Menu There is no need to explain why teachers should have the same benefit of differentiated learning as students do. Fundamentally, most people agree with the idea, but for some reason the differentiated professional development experience seems more the exception than the rule. Here are three juicy options to give teachers what they’re craving. Appetizer: Pick Strategically, Not Randomly Pre-assessments and formative assessments are critical to the DI experience. 1.) what teachers know Here are a few ideas on how you can make the most of your summer vacation away... So let’s look at a few simple teaching strategies teachers can use to take... Here's how you can implement gamification into your classroom. Here are a few ways to bring technology in the classroom safely and responsibly. Here are a few end of the year activities and tips that you can share with... 2.) what they are really interested in learning 3.) how they learn Main Dish: Pick Doing, Not Talking 1.) listening/watching presentations

Reading and Math ProgramsLearning Today Top 12 Ways to Motivate Students If there is one thing we know about kids, it’s that they have short attention spans and prefer now to later. This is especially true at the beginning of the year. Teachers, more than any district or schoolwide programs, have the most power to know how to motivate students because they’re on the front lines. ***Obviously, not enough can be said about parent involvement, but that’s a Top 12 list for another day*** How to Motivate Students In Your Classroom or School 1. Recognize work in class, display good work in the classroom and send positive notes home to parents, hold weekly awards in your classroom, organize academic pep rallies to honor the honor roll, and even sponsor a Teacher Shoutout section in the student newspaper to acknowledge student’s hard work. 2. Set high, yet realistic expectations. We offer up some new classroom activities for Groundhog Day, and a few twists... Our look at the cutting-edge technology in the classroom concept known as... 3. 4. 5. Classroom Job Examples 6.

Reading Comprehension Stories & Worksheets Teacher PD: Using Differentiated Instruction to Teach Differentiated Instruction We have all been there...sitting in the classroom of a professional development workshop or in the audience at a conference, listening to someone talk about engaged, student-centered, action-based, pers We have all been there...sitting in the classroom of a professional development workshop or in the audience at a conference, listening to someone talk about engaged, student-centered, action-based, personalized, differentiated (I'm sure I am missing several other descriptors) learning. It is a rare treat when we are actually thrown into such learning in those experiences. I've been working with teachers at our school to further personalize the learning for each student, and this prompted me to attempt a differentiated model PD lesson on differentiated instruction. I think this way, we can experience it as a learner and gain tools to use in our classrooms. Here are a few ideas on how you can make the most of your summer vacation away... The Many Paths of Learning Tier 1 Ground Level Basics:

15 Of The Best Educational Apps For Improved Reading Comprehension Reading comprehension is a matter of decoding, reading speed, and critical thinking about the text, all of which can improve with tiered practice. (See 50 apps for struggling readers.) So below, in an order of general complexity, are 15 apps for improved reading comprehension, ranging from word and sentence fluency, to recall, to critical thinking skills, to reading speed. By the nature of reading and literacy progress, most are indeed for K-5 and SLP, but the latter apps, especially Reading Trainer, Compare Twist, and Enchanted Dictionary, can be used through high school in the right context. 15 Of The Best Educational Apps For Improved Reading Comprehension 1. Price: $2.99 Primary Audience: K-3 Idea: Focusing on non-fiction texts and assessment, with the ability to create your own lessons (text + assessment). 2. Price: $7.99 Primary Audience: K-5 and SLP. Idea: Like SentenceBuilder, this app focuses on sentence fluency. 3. Price: .99 Primary Audience: K-3 and SLP 4. Price: $5.99 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.

Phonics Worksheets, Reading, for Preschool, Kindergarten, First Grade, Second Grade This page was set up so that you can easily find our phonics worksheets by type and level. Preschool Phonics Worksheets You will find our phonics worksheets for teaching preschoolers and kindergartners. These worksheets will develop skills in the following areas: Kindergarten Phonics Worksheets, Level 1 You will find our phonics worksheets for teaching kindergarten level 1. Kindergarten Phonics Worksheets, Level 2 You will find our phonics worksheets for teaching kindergarten level 2. First Grade Phonics Worksheets, Level 1 You will find our phonics worksheets for teaching first grade level 1. First Grade Phonics Worksheets, Level 2 You will find our phonics worksheets for teaching first grade level 2. Second Grade Phonics Worksheets, Level 1 You will find our phonics worksheets for teaching second grade level 1. Register Now to Unlock the Full Wealth of this Site. You may choose to instead buy the contents of this website as books and CDs. Pre-K & Kindergarten Books 1st & 2nd Grade Books

Phonics Games | Brainzy-Education.com As players complete challenges they’ll gain essential early reading practice. Your kids will work on phonics skills like letter-sound correspondence, building words from individual sounds, and getting comfortable with word families through rhymes, stories and songs. Join Roly, TuTu and the rest of the gang in games that reinforce phonological awareness, vowel and consonant sounds, and short words. Answer questions about key details in a text. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.K.1 Describe connections between illustrations and the text in which they appear (e.g., what person, thing, or idea in the text an illustration depicts). CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.K.7 Actively engage in reading activities with purpose and understanding. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.K.10 Recognize and produce rhyming words. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.K.2a Blend and segment onsets and rimes of single-syllable spoken words. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.K.2c CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.K.2d Recognize and produce the primary or most frequent sound for each consonant.

Vocabulary Development During Read-Alouds: Primary Practices Reading storybooks aloud to children is recommended by professional organizations as a vehicle for building oral language and early literacy skills (International Reading Association & National Association for the Education of Young Children, 1998). Reading aloud is widely accepted as a means of developing vocabulary (Newton, Padak, & Rasinski, 2008), particularly in young children (Biemiller & Boote, 2006). Wide reading is a powerful vehicle for vocabulary acquisition for older and more proficient readers (Stanovich, 1986), but since beginning readers are limited in their independent reading to simple decodable or familiar texts, exposure to novel vocabulary is unlikely to come from this source (Beck & McKeown, 2007). Much is known about how children acquire new vocabulary and the conditions that facilitate vocabulary growth. What we know about vocabulary and read-alouds Incidental word learning through read-alouds Adult mediation in read-alouds Setting for the study Instructional focus

Teaching With a Mountain View: Top 10 Tips for Building Fluent Readers + Link Up! We have all heard about the shift that happens, usually between second and third grade, when students (should) go from learning to read to reading to learn. Unfortunately, for some students, their ability to read to learn is stifled by their inability to read fluently. Even for those kids who can read at an average pace, the faster and more accurately they can read and decode, the more effectively they can comprehend. When I taught third grade, and now as an interventionist, the importance of fluency is empathized more than ever (and has definitely met some critics). I know that fluency is NOT the end-all, be-all, but a lot of research proves that it is important, and a lot of schools are trending toward fluency being a high priority. 1. I know what you’re thinking—this is obvious. Update: I now have a FREE download that includes the above anchor chart! 2. Have you discovered the Super Speed games from Whole Brain Teaching? 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Day 1 of new passage ONLY: Every Day: 8. 9. 10.

SuperSpeed: Game of Champ Readers! Improving student reading speed, of all serious educational problems, is one of the easiest to solve. Only 100 words, sight words, make up over 50% of the words students will ever read. Many of these words cannot be sounded out phonetically and thus must be known at sight, instantly. The more quickly students can read sight words, the faster they will read. Superspeed reading games developed by Whole Brain Teachers of America and classroom tested by hundreds of educators, provide a simple, extremely entertaining way to help K-12 students improve their reading speed. SuperSpeed Letters and Phonics teaches K-2 students the alphabet and letter sounds; SuperSpeed 100 helps K-3 (and remedial) students master the 100 most common sight words; SuperSpeed 1000, designed for 3rd-high school students, teaches the 1,000 most common sight words. SuperSpeed is played as follows: For more information, contact Chris Biffle.