8 Ways to Teach Literacy Skills With Piggie Pie! at Halloween

8 Ways to Teach Literacy Skills With Piggie Pie! at Halloween

Okay, so Piggie Pie! is not technically a “Halloween book,” but the main character is a witch…so it totally works! Summary Gritch the witch wants to make some Piggie Pie, but she doesn’t have any piggies. Problem! So she looks in the phone book to find some piggies and flies off on her broom to …

Image of cat eating mouse from phonics poem, "Mice in Line," by Lorrie L. Birchall

Teach Phonics with Short Poems

First of all, what are phonics poems? They’re simply poems that can be used as good examples (exemplars) to teach specific phonics skills. Why use phonics poems for teaching reading? 1. Phonics poems provide an efficient use of short instructional time: As a reading intervention teacher, I typically had between 15-20 minutes to work with …