Ideas and resources to help you teach with BLISS!
Narrative Writing is one of the most common and important types of writing we teach our students. In this post, I’m sharing 5 tips for How to Teach Narrative Writing and providing details about the Narrative Writing Mini-Unit resources I have created for Kindergarten, 1st and 2nd grade students. As teachers we spend a tremendous amount of time teaching our… Read More
Alphabet recognition is one of the first skills children learn as beginning readers. In this post, I’m sharing 4 strategies for teaching letter recognition, as well as digital and printable alphabet recognition activities for kindergarten and preschool students. If you work with young students I know you spend a lot of time working with them on letter recognition. It is… Read More
In this post I’ll share all about using the online reading website Epic in the classroom. I’ll walk you through how to set up your FREE Epic educator account. Finally, I’ll share tips for how to use Epic and show you some of the helpful resources Epic offers. If you were a teacher in the year 2020 you probably had… Read More
These socially distanced word work centers allow students to engage in meaningful literacy center work while maintaining safety & distance. Make sure to download free socially distant word sort and word building activities in the post! “Social distancing” and “literacy centers” are two things I never expected we’d hear together! So much of center time has always been about sharing materials,… Read More
These socially distanced writing centers allow students to engage in meaningful literacy center work while maintaining safety & distance. Make sure to download a free socially distant writing center in the post! I don’t know about you, but my initial reaction to the idea of having to keep elementary students socially distanced in the classroom was simply, “That’s impossible!”. So… Read More
Free sentence building activities! This DIFFERENTIATED writing center will help students practice writing conventions and build reading fluency skills. As teachers we know that in any classroom you’ll find a wide range of abilities among students. While we can probably all agree that differentiating instruction is important, meeting the needs of all your students can often feel like a daunting… Read More
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