Ideas and resources to help you teach with BLISS!
Opinion 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 Opinion Writing and providing details about the Opinion Writing Mini-Units resources I have created for Kindergarten, 1st and 2nd grade students. The Common Core writing domain focuses on three big types of… 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
In this post I’m discussing how alphabet books can be used as mentor texts to help students build letter recognition. I’m also sharing lists of the BEST alphabet books (both digital and print) that make wonderful mentor texts for alphabet activities. If you work with young children there is no doubt you and your little ones spend a lot of… 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 explicit steps for how to begin using a sound wall in the classroom. You’ll also get details about my own phoneme sound wall resource with mouth articulation photos that has all the materials you’ll need to get… Read More
This post is the first in a two part series on using sound walls in the classroom. Here I share general information about phoneme sound walls, discuss how a sound wall is different from a word wall and how sound walls help students learn to read, write and spell. Sound walls…. It’s likely your literacy coach has mentioned them, you’ve… Read More
Blending is the main strategy we use to help students learn to decode, but there are common mistakes teachers make when teaching it. I’m sharing the four most common mistakes we make when teaching students to blend, tips to help you avoid them and my NO PREP Fluency Builders – Word Blending Activities that provide meaningful and strategic blending practice…. Read More
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