Ideas and resources to help you teach with BLISS!
Full sentences are the foundation of good writing. In this post, I’m sharing tips for teaching students to write in complete sentences and then details about literacy center activities that help kindergarten, first, and second grade students learn to write complete sentences. Writing is a core skill we use all throughout our life. The ability to write in full sentences… Read More
In this post I’m sharing FREE, standards-based Reading Response Activities for Kindergarten, first and second grade students. These activities make a meaningful no-prep literacy center, small group activity or whole class lesson. There is nothing better seeing kids share their excitement about what they’ve read. I love having discussions about books and hearing students’ thoughts and ideas about what they… Read More
In this post I’m sharing 3 simple strategies to support the reluctant writers in your classroom, as well as sharing a list of the most engaging literacy center activities for k-2 students. Most classrooms have student or two who tries to avoid writing. They may groan when you announce it’s time for writing. They find ways to avoid getting started… Read More
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
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
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