Ideas and resources to help you teach with BLISS!
Literacy activities that combine reading and writing reinforce each other and promote learning. In this post, I recommend differentiated literacy center activities that combine reading and writing and share FREE Reading Response Activities for kindergarten, first and second grade students. I think literacy center time is the best part of the school day! Yes, centers take time to prepare and… Read More
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
In this post, I share steps for how to begin using a science of reading-aligned sound wall in your classroom. You’ll get details about my own SoR-aligned phoneme sound wall resource with mouth articulation photos perfect for kindergarten, first and second grade classrooms. Word walls have been around for as long as most of us can remember! While I think… Read More
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