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Florida Center for Reading Research From 2004 to 2007, a team of teachers at FCRR collected ideas and created Student Center Activities for use in kindergarten through fifth grade classrooms. Accompanying these Student Center Activities is a Teacher Resource Guide and Professional Development DVD that offers important insights on differentiated instruction and how to use the Student Center materials. Frequently Asked Questions About Student Center Activities Grades K-1 Student Center Activities (2005) Grades K-1 Student Center Activities (Revised, 2008) Grades 2-3 Student Center Activities (2006) Grades 4-5 Student Center Activities (2007) Student Center Activities aligned to the Common Core State Standards Student Center Activities and Instructional Routines Search Tool The K-5 Student Center Activities (SCA) and K-3 Instructional Routines search tool provides teacher's access to the 522 individual SCA and the instructional routines from Empowering Teachers.
Growing Kinders: Phonemic Fun! Here is a fun and easy phonemic game that you can play with your kinders at any time of the year! You will need a bag of some sort - it can be a gift bag, or a bag like this: You could decorate it all cute with some puffy paint and ribbons. Since I'm on vacation, I don't have access to the supplies! I'll try to make one up when I get home! 8 Great Ideas for Teaching Segmenting and Blending Phonemic awareness- the ability to hear and manipulate the sounds in spoken words and the understanding that spoken words are made up of sequences of speech sounds (Yopp, 1992) The best predictor of reading difficulty in kindergarten or first grade is the inability to segment words and syllabes into constituent sound units (Lyon, 1995) The research is very clear on the important role phonemic awareness plays in the reading process.
Reading the Alphabet: a FREE PreK Reading Curriculum What is Reading the Alphabet? Reading the Alphabet is a FREE PreK reading curriculum designed for those Pre-Kinders who already know their letters and letter sounds, yet are not ready for a faster paced, full-blown Kindergarten curriculum. {This curriculum may also work for those younger Kindergartners who are struggling to master foundational phonics, phonological, and phonemic awareness skills.} *This post contains affiliate links. The Curriculum Includes Work on These Seven Areas: Mrs. Ricca's Kindergarten: Sight Words & Segmenting Freebies! I'm currently working on a plant unit and some subtraction freebies, but I wanted to share something with you in the meantime! My kids this year have had a really hard time with sight words and segmenting, so I've come up with lots of different games and activities to use with my small groups. Here are some of the activities we've been having fun with lately! Swat It!
file folder game We've completed The Letter of the Week twice through, and to end our recent session, Butterfly has completed some Letter Review Work. Here is what we did. Letter Sound Activity Cards- using mini clothespins to mark the answers, which of the two pictures starts with the letter indicated on the card. We have a file folder game box full of different learning activities that I have made for Butterfly, and the newest folder I have put together are Letter Mazes. Classroom Freebies Too: Rhyming Magnetic Gems Rhyme Matching is a great activity for teaching the early phonemic awareness skill of rhyme during your small group instruction. Your students are going to love matching the colorful pictures. It requires a bit of assembly, but it'll be worth it. To make this activity gather the following materials: large marble glass gems (found in the floral section of Walmart), 32 button magnets, glass and bead glue (clear glue) and a cookie sheet. Simply print the pictures on office paper, glue each on a gem and then glue the magnet on the back and you're all set.
25 Picture Books That Rhyme Rhyming is so important for children to understand and play with language. These books tell great stories and have great rhymes. March 1st is Read Across America Day and while most people focus on Dr. Seuss books ( his birthday is the 2nd) I thought I would put together a list of great books that rhyme. It’s a sort of homage to Dr.Seuss and his rhyming legacy. Do you have a favorite book that rhymes we didn’t include?
6 Alliteration Games to Learn Alliteration Need new games for car rides or other times when you need to quietly keep your grandkids entertained? Playing alliteration games is one fun way we’ve found that will do just that! We enjoy playing alliteration games with our grandchildren during the rides back and forth between our homes. The rides to either home are about 30 minutes without the summer traffic…and that can take up to an hour at the wrong time of the day! So we make the best of it to distract the kids and to refocus them away from videos on the car’s DVD player. Alliteration Examples for Kids: Alliterations Poems Tongue Twisters Clilches Fun with Alliteration Examples for Kids! Updated with additional Alliteration Examples for Kids: Famous clichés and sayings, 1/27/13. Spending time with the grandchildren sometimes gives grandparents cause to think quickly for ways to entertain them, especially in the car while stuck in traffic on the way to the beach on a summer weekend day. One way we grandparents pass the time and keep our two older grandchildren distracted is to teach them tongue twisters using special alliteration examples for kids. Longer tongue twisters are also known as alliteration poems or verses. (The following alliteration examples and tongue twisters may help with homework assignments, too.
Preschool and Kindergarten Readiness - School Sparks Reading A-Z: The online leveled reading program with downloadable books to print and assemble
I like the organization of this site. One feature that I did not find on other sites is the section about Children's Books and Authors. It gives themed book lists, nonfiction as well as a section on choosing and using children's books in education. by jezzri Sep 16
This is a well-produced video on teaching reading. The website itself provides everything you need to know to help young and struggling readers succeed! Here you'll find proven ideas for the classroom, tips to share with parents, video of best practices, expert interviews, and the latest research — on print awareness, the sounds of speech, phonemic awareness, phonics, informal assessment, fluency, vocabulary, spelling, comprehension, and writing. by drsinasoul Apr 20