Letter naming fluency activities

Small group activities to do with your students during your literacy small-groups. Free file too! I love these activities as a warm-up before I begin my small-group reading instruction.

Where do you start with reading groups when your kids can;t read yet? Letter naming fluency is the best place to start. Check out my simple assessment trick to help drive your instruction to successful readers.

Welcome! Welcome! Welcome! (Effie style, minus the whole Reaping Day thing.) This is my very-first post here in my new blog. I'm crazy-excited! I hope you like it! You are probably here to learn how I SIGNIFICANTLY improved my student’s letter/sound fluency this year. Mind you, I did write SIGNIFICANTLY in capital letters for a reason. I’m screaming it at you: SIGNIFICANTLY!!!!!!!! This great change came after our incredible Reading Specialist suggested that I add motions to our letter/sound…

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Do you have students who struggle to remember letters and letter sounds? Follow these steps!

As you know by now, I'm teaching EAK- Early Admission Kindergarten to the kiddos in my district that turn 5 between December and March. We...

What is an intervention? In a sense it is very much what the word says. You intervene to assist a student in learning a skill, that they are struggling with. Most of the time if you teach the skill again to the student using the same strategies they were taught t the first time, you will probably still see them struggle. Has this ever happened to you? It sure has happened to me...a lot. What you need to do in the intervention is re-teach the skill that they are having trouble with, but you…

Get silly with a fly swatter! Find the letters, then swat each one with a fly swatter in this fun and funny game that great for preschoolers or toddlers.

This is my first time in a LONG time I can say I am not ready to go back to school after a break. Normally I am good and bored at the end of a week off of school and I am itching to get back. This break I spent visiting my daughter in Norfolk, VA and while it was AMAZING to see her and do A LOT of sight seeing I am tired!! I am not refreshed at all! Here are a few pics from our trip before I get started... Air and Space Museum Walked the entire National Mall, our feet were killing us…

15 fun and easy fluency practice activities to get your K-1 students reading at a just-right pace, with accuracy and expression!