Ideas and resources to help you teach with BLISS!
The Science of Reading tells us that Phoneme-Grapheme Mapping is an effective way to help students build their word recognition and become stronger readers. In this post, you’ll get ideas to practice mapping words with your students, details about my Phoneme Grapheme Word Mapping Bundle and a FREE CVC Word Mapping activity perfect for the Kindergarten, first or second grade classroom!… Read More
Every classroom needs literacy centers that allow children to practice reading, writing, speaking and listening. In this post I’ll share centers that allow students to practice these skills and offer you ideas and activities to get literacy centers up and running in your kindergarten, first or second grade classroom! By now you probably know I LOVE literacy centers! I’ve talked… Read More
In this post I’m sharing helpful tips and strategies to keep kindergarten, first and second grade students on-task and working independently during literacy centers. When asked about literacy centers one of the biggest challenges teachers say they face is how to keep students on-task and working independently. How do you stop the constant disruptions? How do you work with your… Read More
In this post I’m sharing 4 tips to help limit disruptions and build independence during literacy centers in the kindergarten, first and second grade classrooms. Do you struggle to keep students on-task and working independently during literacy centers? Do they disrupt and pull you away from your small group instruction? If so, know you are not alone. In my years… Read More
In this post I’m sharing 4 helpful tips for organizing literacy centers and activities in the kindergarten, first and second grade classroom. I love literacy centers….but it hasn’t always been that way. Yep, during my first years in the classroom literacy centers weren’t the best part of my day. I made a lot of no-so-great choices and learned from… Read More
In this post I’m sharing 4 tips for planning and choosing engaging and manageable literacy centers for kindergarten, first and second grade students and classrooms. Planning literacy centers can be overwhelming. There are so many different activities to choose from and it can be hard to know which ones will be best for your students. And I know it is… Read More
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