Showing posts with label guided reading. Show all posts
Showing posts with label guided reading. Show all posts
$1 anchor charts
I love using anchor charts in my classroom. They usually hang on my chart stand or whiteboard while I am teaching a concept, then I move them to my focus board. I also use them in sign holders at my small group table. Anchor charts are a great way to focus and reinforce learning. These are single PDFs so that they are easy to upload to office supply stores to make posters. I like to use Vistaprint to make my posters.


Come back soon!
I will be adding more $1 anchor charts as I make them.

toss tell and take

The following Kindergarten Common Core Standards
can be assessed and practiced with this packet...
RF.K.1 Recognize and name all upper and lowercase letters.
RF.K.3 Associate the long and short sounds for the five major vowels
RF.K.3 Demonstrate basic knowledge of letter-sound correspondence by producing the primary sound for each consonant.
RF.K.3 Read common high-frequency words by sight.
RF.K.2 Isolate and pronounce the initial, medial vowel, and final sounds (phonemes) in three-phoneme (consonant-vowel-consonant, or CVC) words.
RF.K.2 Recognize and produce rhyming words.
See this unit in action.
These smarties are practicing identifying long and short vowel sounds
during their guided reading group...
character traits in kindergarten
I use Kid Adsit and Michele Scannell's reader's workshop units. Their Digging Deeper unit focuses on characters and settings. I was frustrated with my students' simple responses to describe characters. Everyone knows that Goldilocks is a girl with blonde hair. I wanted them to be able to do a little more thinking about characters, so I created this character traits unit for kindergarten learners. I picked words to describe characters that five and six year olds could relate to. Here is how this unit works...
Read a story...
sort the character trait cards to describe the main character...
{I made my students provide evidence from the story to support the character trait they picked.}
add the character traits they pick to describe the character to a graphic organizer...
have readers draw and pick their own character traits to describe the character...
read another story and repeat the above activities.
Check out Kindergarten Characters.
My students loved this activity.
You can download, print and do this activity right away.

beginning sounds match up
I started my guided reading groups this week.
This group is working on identifying beginning sounds.
You can get this activity in my Teachers Pay Teachers Store.
Check out Beginning Sounds Match-Up in action...

sight word reader's theater
My newest Reader's Theater unit focuses on practicing and reading sight words. These are perfect for kindergarten guided reading groups. This unit focuses on practicing sight words, using pictures to read tricky words and independent reading. My little readers are loving these and begging to do them daily. Check out my Sight Word Reader's Theater unit HERE.

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