Organizing Classroom Reading Groups
Organizing classroom reading groups can make your literacy block more focused, productive, and enjoyable for you and your students. Start by getting a clear picture of your students’ reading abilities,…
Book Tasting Ideas
Are you looking for book tasting ideas for your classroom? A book tasting is a creative way to introduce your students to a variety of books while making reading feel…
Phonemic Awareness Activities
Phonemic awareness activities give you powerful ways to help your students tune in to the sounds that make up spoken words. You guide them to listen closely, play with sounds,…
Reading Book Bags for Classrooms
Teachers use Reading Book Bags to display and store reading books in their classrooms for guided reading, independent reading, peer reading, and lending libraries in the classroom. Each bag would…
Classroom Reading Tents
Classroom reading tents are commonly used in classroom reading nooks and reading corners. These tents need to be large enough to provide comfortable and inviting spaces for students to do…
Fun Reading Bulletin Boards
It is easy to make reading bulletin boards for your classroom. To make a bulletin board that promotes a love for reading, it can feature a famous quote about reading,…
Books About Words – to Increase Vocabulary
It is so important for students to be exposed to a wide range of words so that they can master expressing themselves both orally and through writing. Sometimes, it is…
Using a Reading Tree to Encourage Reading and Book Reports
I hope that this post can interest you in Using a Reading Tree to Encourage Reading and Book Reports. Our library has started a reading tree to get the kids excited…
4 Easy Phonics Activities and Crafts
I think that the best thing about having to teach first grade this year is that I get to do more phonics activities and crafts with these younger students. I…
Comparing Movies to Books – Free Worksheets
Movies can be more than entertainment. In the classroom, they can be integrated into book study lessons which would encourage the reluctant readers to become actively engaged in fact finding…