K-6 Literacy Resources for Teachers & Parents
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 …
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Here’s a poem I specifically wrote for teaching the rather small, but still important word family of -ould (should, would, could). Kids often misspell these words so they should be taught together…see what I did there? I like to think this also makes a good poem for teaching about logical consequences of behavior choices too …
Did you know there are actually three different kinds of compound words? Yup, there are. The Three Kinds of Compound Words: 1. Closed form compound words: Two (or more) individual words combined together that make a new word. (Examples: firefly, football, childhood, schoolhouse, firefighter) Usually, when people are talking about compound words, they are referring …
Whether you are teaching a bubble gum thematic unit or the -ew word family in a targeted mini-lesson, check out this short phonics poem embedded with theses ew words: chew, grew, and blew. This bubble gum phonics poem with -ew words is available as a FREEBIE. It’s part of a much larger collection of phonics …
Going back to school isn’t easy for a lot of kids, but it’s particularly hard for kids who are attending a brand new school for the first time. Being the new kid is just plain hard. Most of the time, I prefer to write lighthearted or funny poems, but I wrote this back-to-school poem because …
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 …