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For the longest time, I thought I was securing my PDFs correctly. Only recently did I realize I was only HALF correct. When you save a PowerPoint or Keynote file as a PDF with a password so that others cannot copy and paste or drag your fonts and clipart off of the page,  the hyperlinks do not always stay. What happens? The PDF secures everything. Therefore, when PDFs are posted for buyers, they see tons of buttons, but no links. Also, many clipart artists have written in their Terms of Use that a link to their store must be provided. How can you do this if your link isn’t working in the secured file??? I had no idea. I searched for hours on the TeachersPayTeachers Seller Forum and finally discovered the answer. I have taken screen shots of each step, in the hopes of clarifying what I was completely confused about.  ***Before you begin, you will need Adobe Acrobat. The free Adobe Reader that is usually on computers is not the same. Adobe Acrobat is NOT free. It’s about $20 a month or $120 for the year (educator discount). However, there is a free trial. I am using the free Continue Reading

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Math, Misc

I’m excited to share this little freebie with you! Since, I don’t have a classroom this year, one of my sweet friends sent me a few pictures of her kids using this during math centers…(Pardon the cropping…I had to cut their sweet faces out!) So, the center activity consists of task cards, soccer ball number cards, and a recording sheet. Students read the question on the card. It may say something like “What number is 10 more than 43?”. Then they look for the soccer ball that shows 10 more than 43. The kids then match the soccer ball to the correct task card (as you can see on the top two cards in the picture). If this game were played on the floor or at a table, students would be able to “make a goal” by putting the matching soccer ball right on top of the goal! I’ve gotten some great feedback from teachers at my own school who are using it in 2nd and 3rd grade as a review of 5 more/less and 10 more/less addition and subtraction skills. The kids are all excited about the soccer theme and love “making goals”. Be sure to grab a copy of Continue Reading

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This weekend I worked on a fun little editable project that you may enjoy! There are 20 slides that are ready for you to personalize. Take a look in this sneak peek!  Add your name to this page! I’ve also added a page without the words “Open House”, just in case you have a different event name. Here is a preview of all the pages once they are completed. This page works as a little getting to know you page. You can let parents know all about your schedule here. I like to show parents what their HW checklist will look like so that they are not confused the first week of school. I added an image of it to this slide. Want parents to volunteer??? I included this slide and one about class parties!  This product also has 4 blank pages with editable titles so that you can add extra pages with any specific information you need to share with parents. If you would like to see a larger preview or grab this editable presentation, click here.

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  Linking up for Day 2 of Teacher Week with the ladies at Blog Hoppin’! This one is a little abnormal for me, because I’m out of the classroom this year. Buttt…I figured I’d show you around anyway! Last year, when I was IN the classroom, it looked like this…     But this year, I’m Communications Director & I teach Character Education to K-2, so I use all the classrooms in the school. Here’s where I work! It’s a private PK2-5th grade school that’s been around for 45 years! It was my elementary school, and I feel so at home here!  Pavilion & PK Playground  You can’t see the big playground from here but from here it is behind me. Our hallways are colorful and walled with bulletin boards that are painted. The blue and green walls here are all bulletin boards. This wall above is painted with white board paint! HOW AWESOME!? Our art teacher is beyond talented! This is one of my current favorite classrooms! It is a co-teaching 1st grade room. The teachers have set it up so well this year! Love all the space that two rooms includes! Be sure to link back up to Continue Reading

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When I was a first year teacher, I received a little basket of goodies. So, when I found out there was a BRAND new teacher at my new school, I figured I would keep the tradition going! I grabbed one of those shower caddies from the college section of Target and some ribbon that matches her room’s color scheme. Then I found things that I had bought for my classroom and never used, and bought a few things at the Target dollar section. Voila! Adorable bin that she will LOVE! Do you have any traditions for new teachers?   Be sure to link back up! for more Wordless Wednesday ideas!

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Literacy Centers, Misc

My sweet friends Alisha from Missing Tooth Grins and Katie from Simply Creative in KY decided to get together for a mini product swap. We wanted to give ya’ll a closer look at some of our products! I have the wonderful pleasure of looking through Katie’s Let’s Talk About It: Teaching Students How to Talk About Text. People, it’s amazing! This pack has so many different resources to help you help your students discuss their reading. True Common Core, my friends. Discuss, discuss, discuss. First off, please just look at all that color! I mean, really! Who doesn’t love color?!?! This is just pure teacher happiness! This is the whole pack printed and ready to teach with! Okay, now let’s take a look at the inside of this pack. Katie includes: 1. Lesson Ideas about using sticky notes, summarizing, learning to take turns, and making conversations meaningful using various resources. 2. Stop & Jot and Text Talker anchor charts 3. Five Phrase Posters 4. Text Talk Bingo 5. Talking Sticks 6. Text Talker Bookmarks 7. Discussion Cards for chapter books, picture books, and nonfiction texts. Katie includes so many different options in this resource. I used it in camp this summer Continue Reading

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Literacy Centers, Misc

This week I finally printed some of the things I have created this year.  I started organizing my centers like this last year. We did literacy and math centers every day so I had A TON of activities and no where to keep them. Now I store my centers in plastic Ziploc bags. All the Ziploc bags go in a filing cabinet or the closet (depending on subject and topic). This is convenient for me & for early finishers who need to be kept busy!  I print and laminate everything. I cut any extra white or lamination off of the big direction sheets. This way, they fit perfectly inside the zipper of the Gallon bags. Each activity has an individual bag that includes: 1) Anchor Charts 2) “I Can” Statement/Direction Sheet 3) Task Cards or Activities 4) One copy of the recording sheet for easy access. Just grab it and make copies. On Fridays before I leave, I grab the centers for the next week, take them out of the large bags, and put them in our center bins, like the one below. I leave the task cards in the small sandwich bags. I keep the empty Gallon bags in Continue Reading

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So, I’m in LOVE with Keynote. I use both PowerPoint and Keynote to create. I just like the easy of Keynote better. HOWEVER… I am not a huge technology guru…When I finished my product and saved it as a PDF, I always got these thin white borders on the top & bottom. Strange, right? Annoying, yes. Plus, it’s not good when selling products because then the person buying the product may have to cut extra stuff to get that ugly white off! I had to find a solution, or else I was going back to my PowerPoint days. Cue – the technology guru from my previous school. Mr. Church saved me! He basically said that Keynote is not formatted to print on paper because it is a “presentation program”, SO you have to make a custom paper. He actually made this YouTube video to explain it to me. It is very easy to follow. Click the picture below to watch and learn! Be sure to do this BEFORE creating a product. If you do it after, you will have to move all of your objects, images, and fonts back into place. (Ain’t nobody got time for that!) I just had Continue Reading

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Many of you have most likely changed schools a couple of times in your careers. However, it’s a first for this newbie! After interning and teaching at a school where I felt at home, I am switching to a completely different environment. Next year, I will be working in an administrative position as “Communications Director” for the private Christian elementary school I grew up in. I am SO excited for this new journey. I am blessed to be able to work in the environment that raised me from the time I was 2 years old until 5th grade. I am thrilled to be working with some of the same teachers (and the same principal!) from when I was in school. Sometimes it amazes me that I will be down the hall from the teacher who inspired me to teach. Such a great opportunity. It will also be a sort of…trial run. I want to continue to my Doctorate after I finish my Master’s in May. However, I’m not sure if I want to work with adults in the future, or if I want to stay with the kiddies. I hope this job will give me the opportunity to find my Continue Reading

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Decor, Misc

A little background: My school has mandatory grade-wide themes each year. Third grade is cartoons. My coworker was very concerned about not making her room look cheesy. Soooo after many days of thought, she decided on Smurfs. This way, she could use solid blue and red, polka dots, chevron, etc. without it looking crazy. (There will not be Smurf heads on the walls.)   She had the posters we made printed at Kinkos and then bought some $1 frames at the Dollar Tree. We trimmed a bit of the blue off so that they would fit nicely in the frames.  She wants them to hang above her Promethean Board, so we added ribbon. **Make sure the pieces of ribbon are the same length!** We hot glued the ribbon to the frame. Once in the classroom, she is going to add duct tape to the back also.  Then we cut up some ribbon to make bows. This was interesting… I had to look at a few different how-to’s on Pinterest before making a bow that looked decent.  We used thin white ribbon around the middle of the bow to attach it to the red ribbon.  Trim off any excess… And TA-DA! Beautiful, simple, Continue Reading

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💻DIGITAL PORTFOLIO🗄 In 2017, my husband was 💻DIGITAL PORTFOLIO🗄

In 2017, my husband was starting a new job in a different city and I needed a job. I wasn’t going to be able to travel there to interview as it was about 4 hours north of us. So I decided to create a digital portfolio to essentially allow principals to get an inside view of my classroom from afar. 

📸 I used @weebly because it was easy to create and free! I keep the URL to myself since there are some pictures of student faces. I organized my portfolio by Marzano domains (the teacher evaluation system in FL). Pictures were a must and I linked many videos as well. Essentially, I showed proof of each domain and many of the categories within each domain. ⭐️Swipe to see some snapshots⭐️

💌When I sent emails to principals, I included the link so they could view at their convenience. When I applied online, I dropped the link into the section labeled portfolio or even “Is there anything else you’d like us to know.”

🏆I got a phone call within an hour of sending the email to principals. And I was then hired immediately from that phone interview. I sincerely think that the portfolio helped my principal to “see me in the classroom” without physically seeing me.

👌🏻Ever since, I’ve updated it and used it in every job inquiry and interview. It works every time and I often get comments about how convenient it was for admin.

❤️Do you have a portfolio? Is it digital or in a binder? Has it helped you secure a job? I truly think that digital portfolios will be a huge benefit with interviews under cov!d regulations.❤️

#teachersfollowteachers #teachersofinstagram #iteach #iteachtoo #teacherinterview #teachingportfolio
Keep reading books to kids, no matter the age!🙌 Keep reading books to kids, no matter the age!🙌🏼

Do you agree? Like, share your thoughts in the comments, and share with anyone you know!!! 🥰

#teachersofinstagram #teachersfollowteachers #readaloud #listeningcomprehension #booklover #structuredliteracy #iteachfirst #iteachsecond #iteachtoo
📢Sound on📢 CC: Students are telling their mo 📢Sound on📢
CC: Students are telling their mom about the word “have”. They say “No English word ends in a V. So you have to put an E after it. But it doesn’t make it “hAve” (long A).🤩

Tonight when I received this video from their mom with the text “I learned something new from them today!” I laughed hard, but I was so so so proud!❤️

My students are continuing our homeschool routine via my lesson plans while out of town. So tonight they taught their mom about the orthography of the English language.🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼

💭No English word ends in V. They also don’t end in I, U, or J. (3 exceptions: you, thou, and I)
This explains why HAVE has a silent E at the end, but is not pronounced with a long A. Words that DO end in I, U, V, or J are loan words borrowed from other languages or abbreviations. For example, “menu” is French and “taxi” is an abbreviation.

🤷🏼‍♀️Did you know this? I did not know this until this past year...my 7th year of teaching. If you do know this...when did you learn it?

#teachersfollowteachers #teachersofinstagram #thelogicofenglish #structuredliteracy #phonicsinstruction #english #linguistics #iteachfirst #iteachsecond
This is what we call progress. Week 1 & Week 20. A This is what we call progress. Week 1 & Week 20. Almost 6 months to the day.🙌🏼

📝My second grader needed lots of phonemic awareness, phonics, and writing intervention. We have hashed out those skills nonstop since the first week of August. It’s been an amazing journey to watch. 

📚When I look at these two samples, I see text understanding, sentence structure and variety, written comprehension, and significant phonics growth. Both of these are reading responses to decodable passages. 

❤️On the first page, I had to assist with finding facts, writing sentences, and spelling words. On today’s writing, I only had to help with the EA in “defeated” and when to use -ED. I watched as a previously reluctant writer, finished an entire page of writing while I worked with another student. THAT is called a win.

🤩This is not to toot my own horn. It’s to celebrate my student and his hard work. It’s to focus on the fact that if we are CONSISTENT with foundational skills, they will translate into reading and writing improvements. 

📢Keep on keeping on, friends! Light that spark and watch for these moments that warm our teacher hearts. Progress over perfection!

(Curriculum is a phonics book titled: “From Phonics to Reading” by Wiley Blevins, Sadlier Publishing)

#teachersfollowteachers #teachersofinstagram #iteachtoo #iteachfirst #iteachsecond #phonicsinstruction #structuredliteracy #writeeveryday
🤍If there’s one work thing I’ve been thankf 🤍If there’s one work thing I’ve been thankful for over the last year in this pandemic life, it’s online professional development. Countless webinars, live chats, and courses are available digitally now for free or low cost. It’s been such a year of growth for me!

🤍During most breaks you can find me lesson planning or sitting watching a webinar of sorts (or doing both simultaneously). I enjoy the bit of quiet & cozy up in my swivel chair while highlighting or taking notes. Enneagram 3 for ya...always doing something. I can’t help it.

🤍I should’ve kept track of each session I watched, each course I attended, each article I read. That would’ve been a great addition to a digital portfolio. “The Pandemic PD.” 😂 But I didn’t.

🤍I have really loved The Reading Teacher’s Top Ten Tools course. YouTube videos from The Reading League & PaTTAN are also top notch. If it’s podcasts that you need, check my highlights for suggestions.

🤍The resource pictured here is The Reading Science Academy. It’s a monthly subscription created by Dr. Stephanie Stollar who is a professor at Mount Saint Joseph University in Cincinnati. (MSJ is well known for their masters and doctoral programs in the Science of Reading). The subscription is $9 and offers core and monthly content from experts in the field. I love it so far!

🤍Have you taken virtual PD this year? What has been your favorite? Let us know below so we can all share!👇🏼

#iteachtoo #teachersfollowteachers #teachersofinstagram #virtualpd #iteachfirst #iteachsecond #structuredliteracy #scienceofreading #growthmindset #alwayslearningalwaysgrowing
Just a reminder to myself and any other mamas out Just a reminder to myself and any other mamas out there - get IN FRONT of the camera from time to time and have someone else capture some moments for you. ❤️ You won’t regret it!
Sight word = ANY word that is orthographically map Sight word = ANY word that is orthographically mapped and permanently stored in memory so that it is retrieved automatically.

•Sight words are not only Dolch and Fry words. It is not as effective or efficient to memorize irregular words as whole words or by shape.

🎉Spellings of words are bonded to their pronunciations and meanings. (Phonemic awareness and vocabulary instruction are SO essential here!)

•Building your sight word knowledge leads to reading automatically, without decoding each word as you come to it. Reading automatically therefore leads to fluent reading which leads to higher comprehension of what you are reading.

💡When words are mapped and become sight words to us, the connections in our brains are activated EVERY time we see the word, REGARDLESS of if we want to read it or not. If someone flashes a word and takes it away immediately, you will still read the word automatically without even trying to. This is why we can look at something and know what it says before thinking, “Hmmm let me read that!” We cannot keep ourselves from reading a word that we see and we can also not forget how to read a word that we have mapped.🤯

Swipe to read each of the four quotes as they go together and are taken directly from her published work.

Source: Linnea Ehri 1992, 1995
Linnea Ehri is a well known psychologist who has developed and published research on orthographic mapping and the stages of reading (and much more!).
Merry Christmas from our family to yours! ❤️ G Merry Christmas from our family to yours! ❤️ Glory to the newborn King! 👑
We’ve been working on syllable deletion in three We’ve been working on syllable deletion in three syllable words this week and last. Students have been ROCKING it!🌟 

This specific example was our last of an E2 set from Kilpatrick’s Equipped for Reading Success book. I love how she, suddenly and unprompted, realized that the word was like another word she knew.❤️ I went with it and showed her how to manipulate one syllable within 3 syllable words as an intro.

This was randomly caught on video but made me so excited. It shows why phonological awareness is important. It helps students to identify, read, and interact with multi-syllable words.📚

We have manipulatives out and students can use them if they wish. Eventually I notice students rely less on tapping the manipulative and simply answer quickly and automatically.🙌🏼

💭How have you seen manipulatives help with phonological awareness instruction?💭

#iteachtoo #iteachfirst #iteachsecond #phonologicalawareness #equippedforreadingsuccess #syllabledeletion #syllables #multisyllablewords
Quick Tip!💭 Print out a one or two page versio Quick Tip!💭

Print out a one or two page version of a sound wall and use it to track the data from your auditory drills!📝

Auditory drills - ask the student to write all the graphemes or all the ways (that they’ve learned so far) to spell a particular phoneme.🗣 

I just date it and give it a check if it was correct or almost correct. Then I can visually see which sounds we haven’t practiced yet. We do auditory drills about every other day and I just had this idea last week. It’s now saving my sanity!🤣

#iteachfirst #iteachsecond #teachersfollowteachers #teachersofinstagram #structuredliteracy #auditorydrill #soundwall
Let’s talk about decodable texts.🗣 📚HIGH Let’s talk about decodable texts.🗣

📚HIGH QUALITY decodable texts are extremely helpful for students to transfer knowledge of their learned phonics skills from isolation to within text. Typically, a well written decodable passage or book will have 80% decodable words and 20% high frequency words or content words that do not follow a typical pattern.

📚HIGH QUALITY decodables are engaging, develop a story line or share factual information. They do NOT have sentences that sound “off”. (If they do, skip those books.) Students should be reading texts that sound natural. 

📚HIGH QUALITY decodables allow students to feel successful and confident when reading AND writing! Students should understand the story line and be able to respond. They should discuss the story and retell just as they would with trade books. If they are able to read fluently and decode successfully with automaticity, they will be able to spend valuable working memory focusing on comprehension. Writing about reading is also essential to practicing written comprehension and encoding of the learned phonics skills.

❤️Also, let’s go ahead and clear the air, friends. ❤️ I use a variety of throughout texts each day & each week: Read alouds, content texts, close reading passages, decodable readers, leveled readers, readers theaters, poems, songs. Each of those has fiction and nonfiction options. ⭐️⭐️⭐️EACH type of text has a time and place in the classroom.⭐️⭐️⭐️ YOU, as the teacher, need to make the choice based on what your goal is for the lesson & based on your students’ stage in reading development. I refuse to sit here and bash one type of text. I feel that it is unreasonable to say one type is “bad”. 

💭Instead of fighting against a type of text, think “When and how can I use this with my students? What would this text help us to accomplish? How should we approach this text? How should we discuss and write about this text?”

📢Share your favorite HIGH QUALITY decodable text resources below!💬 

#teachersfollowteachers #teachersofinstagram #decodabletexts #decoding #comprehension #discussion #readingteacher #writing #readersofinstagram
Thank you @polkadotsandplanning for such a fun act Thank you @polkadotsandplanning for such a fun activity! We will be doing this weekly from now on- the kids requested it!❤️

Sticker sounds is a great way to practice segmenting the phonemes in words. Kids get 2-4ish repetitions of segmenting the one word which I think is just fabulous!💭

This activity promotes orthographic mapping of the word because students are first paying attention to the sounds, then the letters that represent those sounds, and then finally the sequence that those letters are written in.🧠 

👩‍💻This highly engaging yet simple activity can be transferred to a digital environment by adding clipart or images onto a slideshow or Jamboard. It’s also ideal for in person instruction right now because students do not share the stickers.😷

If you try this in your classroom, be sure to tag @polkadotsandplanning! 🙌🏼

#iteachfirst #iteachsecond #teachersfollowteachers #teachersofinstagram #stickersounds #orthographicmapping #soundtosymbol #speechtoprint #phonemicawareness #encoding
Open sorts are a great way to direct student atten Open sorts are a great way to direct student attention to the structure and patterns within words.🤩

In open sorts, you give students a set of words. They then decide how to group them. Today, students decided how many groups to create and which words to put into those groups. I did not give them any information except for a list of mixed words.

💭I’ve found that this process really helps ME 🙋🏽‍♀️ as the teacher to determine: 
1️⃣which skills students pick up on quickly (this often shows which skills have been solidified)
2️⃣how fluently they can verbalize WHY they sorted that specific way
3️⃣how well they describe the connections that they made within their groupings of words.

Swipe to see two videos: first grade (VCe) and second grade (R-controlled vowels).🎥 This activity was done before reading a decodable text. All words were taken from the decodable text. 

#teachersofinstagram #teachersfollowteachers #iteachfirst #iteachsecond #phonicsfun #wordsorts #decodablereaders #literacy #structuredliteracy #reading #readinglesson
Happy Thanksgiving from our family & the little di Happy Thanksgiving from our family & the little dinosaurs! 🦖🦕 We are grateful for our family time, health, and outside adventures this year. Even with this unpredictable year & many unwelcome experiences related to quarantine with two littles 🤪, we made some precious memories. 🤍 Thank YOU for joining us here and following along. Wishing everyone a blessed holiday season!
Math turkeys were a huge hit today! This idea has Math turkeys were a huge hit today! This idea has been floating around...I think @creativelyteachingfirst was the first to make one! Thank you! 🙌🏼 We had one turkey that had ➕➖✖️➗ and another that had just ➕➖. So fun, high engagement, and low prep!👍🏼

#teachersofinstagram #teachersfollowteachers #math #mathactivities #postitnotes #iteachfirst #iteachsecond
Walk the Dog 🐕 This fun “game” is an alpha Walk the Dog 🐕

This fun “game” is an alphabetical order scaffold or practice activity for students. After seeing it from @wimberleydyslexiacenter last night, I just had to try it out. Just make an alphabet line & grab any little figurine...doesn’t have to be a dog. Make the dog or character walk along the line as you work through the list of words in alphabetical order. It’s a great hands on visual for students who are just learning.🙌🏼

This was his first day putting our vocabulary words in ABC order and he did a fabulous job! Swipe for the video.🌟

Do you play “Walk the Dog” or something similar in your class?💭

#teachersfollowteachers #teachersofinstagram #iteachfirst #iteachsecond #handsonlearning
High Frequency Word & Spelling Tip Often when tea High Frequency Word & Spelling Tip

Often when teaching high frequency words or new phonics patterns, I will find a connection between the meanings of multiple words with the same pattern. 

We were working on the word NIGHT. We stretched out the sounds orally. Then drew lines or elkonin boxes for the sounds. We learned that many words with IGHT have something to do with light.⭐️ 

So LIGHT became our key word to help us remember the times that we spell the long i sound as IGH in many words that we commonly see in text and write. Obviously, not every word with IGHT relates to light, but it does give students a way to internalize words that are spelled with the same or similar patterns.

This is also great for:
🎵 NG words often have to do with music or sound (ring, rung, ding, dong, sing, sang, sung, zing, zang)
💦 NK words often have to do with water or liquids (sink, sank, sunk, dunk, drink, drank, tank, rink)

#teachersofinstagram #teachersfollowteachers #iteachfirst #iteachsecond #iteachtoo #phonicsinstruction #highfrequencywords
Dropping a tip for all you Post-It lovers out ther Dropping a tip for all you Post-It lovers out there!💚

After assessing students’ spelling of decodable and irregular words, I use a post it to jot down any errors with minor notes. This post it goes into my phonics planning binder so that each day when I teach, I see the post it and can reference what each student needs to review more in order to master. I make sure to throw these words in as practice warm ups, into phonemic awareness activities, guided reading groups, dictation, and explicit phonics practice.✅

Gone are the days of one and done spelling lists. Instead, teach a skill for a week or two, and then each week, add those TYPES of patterns to the words that came before. I never give spelling lists anymore, but rather teach a skill and then expect students to implement that skill in any word with that pattern or the patterns they’ve learned previously. It’s a great way to see if kids are retaining learned phonics rules in their writing.📝

How do you teach & assess spelling?📚

#spelling #phonics #postits #teachersofinstagram #teachersfollowteachers #iteachfirst #iteachsecond
Daily phonemic awareness has been so important in Daily phonemic awareness has been so important in our classroom this year! This portion of our daily Listening Games from @hellojenjones is now a competition between both siblings.🤣

They are very into this part because it’s the most challenging for them. “Which word has a different first sound?” requires students to listen and discriminate between initial sounds. They are listening for phoneme alliteration and then determining which word isn’t a match.

If they get all 5 of the set correct in one day, they get an extra gold tag. It’s some fierce competition y’all! ❤️

#teachersfollowteachers #teachersofinstagram #phonemicawareness #phonologicalawareness #listeninggames #iteachfirst #iteachsecond
Finding beautifully illustrated children’s liter Finding beautifully illustrated children’s literature is so important! Today we drew our attention to the author/illustrator’s job in Brick by Brick. We talked about how she used collage to make the pictures pop and to add teeny details.🔍

One of my students was amazed by this and wanted me to explain how to do it. I tried my best...🤷🏼‍♀️ I’m not an artist, but I do know books. I said, “Oh! I know another book that has collage illustrations! Thank You, Omu!” We grabbed it off the shelf and looked at the similarities between these two beautiful books. Then my student said, “Can you get more of these? Can you search the library for collage books for us?” 🥰😍 Why yes. Yes I will.

I’ve made an effort this year to include my students while choosing new library books. It’s definitely paid off because they are excited and very interested in searching for new books. We place holds every 2 weeks at the local library, and I do drive up pick up to get them. It’s a huge benefit to our day to day in the classroom to have access to so many books. If you know of any other books that have collage type illustrations, please let us know!❤️

#teacherspayteachers #teachersfollowteachers #booksonbooks #illustrationart #iteachfirst #iteachsecond
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