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Effective Strategies for Teaching Sight Words to Primary Students

The ability to recognize high-frequency sight words is one of the most important indicators of reading success for young learners. Help your students develop awesome reading skills with these tips for effectively teaching sight words to primary students. What Are Sight Words Sight words are high-frequency words, meaning that they

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3 Reading Intervention Resources Your Students Will Love

After months of non-traditional learning, our students may not be too keen on getting back to lessons. With a bit of effort and creativity, though, we can craft lessons our students will love. The trick is to find a good balance between what will keep students interested while remaining educational.

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Digital Flashcards

I’m always looking for new ways to integrate technology into my daily classroom routines. Brainstorming ways to revamp “blah” activities into new and improved ones has become something I love to do. This time, I decided to switch out my old paper flashcards for digital ones. Why print, laminate, and

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Reading Intervention K-2

Working with struggling readers can be quite the task. We worry about these kids the most and spend so much time trying to figure out what can be done to help them succeed in our classrooms. If you’re looking for new ideas, keep reading for 5 ways to help your

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My Phonics Curriculum Is Here!

Hi everyone, My Phonics Curriculum has finally arrived and I could not be more thrilled! I have been brainstorming this project for months now and I’m so excited to share some new things with you. ** Stick around.. I have a BIG SURPRISE for you at the end of this

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Plant Ideas & Activities

Hi everyone, We have been learning all about plants in our class and it has been quite the adventure! I am so proud of my students because they really have taken an interest in this topic. They have asked really good questions and are using our experiments to explore new

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Guided Reading – Comprehension Skills

Hi everyone, I’m here to show you what we have been working on in our guided reading groups this month! My little readers have been growing so much this year. I just love to watch them work so hard on decoding new words, recognizing sight words, and practicing new comprehension

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Reading Resources {FREEBIE}

Hi everyone, Have you tried out my Fluency & Comprehension FREEBIE yet?? It is jam packed with fun activities to try out with your students! Everything is NO PREP and ready to use! I included 10 sample pages from my reading resources for you to try with your class. Take

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Guided Reading Games

Hi everyone, I am very happy to announce that we are FINALLY working on sight words in my class! Yes, we started looking at them at the very beginning of the year. However, we are now in full swing “Sight Word Bootcamp” over here!! We read sight words every morning,

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Sneaky E Around The Room

Hi everyone, Last week, we learned all about the sneaky e!  I used an activity from my guided reading pack and displayed it up on my Smart board. This was so fun! Everyone got a chance to come up to the board and write a word with that silly sneaky

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