Whole class reading activities

Pin It One of the best ways to teach a child something (anything!) is to make it memorable . I firmly believe that FUN = Memorable...

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We had a lot of fun doing a height measurement chart with the kids today. The kids chose yarn and flower colors and we saw just how much they've sprouted! Inspiration for this chart came from Learning and Teaching with Preschoolers. They also link some other very interesting looking measurement activities! I was also inspired by their basket of measuring tapes, so I included the only one that I could find and added some strings, some taller and some shorter than their bodies. Let's just see…

Here is a FREE Write the Room Fairy Tales activity. Get your students up and moving with this engaging FREEBIE! Use this for centers, small group or let your whole class do write the room at the same time. This activity helps students practice spelling, handwriting, reading and more. You will find this activity at the end of the blogpost that will help you teach your students how to begin the writing process.

This caterpillar word family activity was an excellent way for my son to practice sorting words to their word family. It's great for bug theme lesson plans!

It is the beginning of the year! I feel like I JUST had a class full of readers! Wasn’t it just May?! But here we are in August with a fresh new set of sweet kindies. And if your class is like mine, most of them don’t even know the first letter in their name.

Hurray - vocabulary activities that aren't boring! These whole class vocabulary activities are great for elementary learners through fifth grade and beyond. #vocabulary #thirdgrade #fourthgrade #fifthgrade

Visualizing the text is such an important reading strategy used for building your students’ reading comprehension. This reading teacher's blog post shares teaching tips, strategies, activities, and resources for teaching visualizing in your classroom (reading crafts, posters and graphic organizers). Helpful for second grade, third grade, fourth grade, and fifth grade teachers.

Use the frogs to hop from lily-pad to lilypad blending sounds and creating words! A great activity for preschoolers and kindergartners!

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