Ideas and resources to help you teach with BLISS!
When we align our instruction to the Science of Reading, we know that teaching the six different syllable types to our students will help them decode bigger, more complex words and become more effective readers! In this post, you’ll get ideas for teaching the syllable types to your students, details about my Syllable Types and Syllable Division Resource, and FREE syllable… Read More
A sound wall is a way to organize and display the different sounds (or phonemes) we hear in speech. In this post I’ll share tips for how to set up a sound wall in the kindergarten, first or second grade classroom. Lately I’ve been sharing a lot of information about Sound Walls. I’ve written about the benefits of sound walls, created… 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
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