What is literacy

Hello! I’m back with another blog post about one of my favorite topics. I’ve blogged about phonemic awareness a few times already, but it’s such an important topic that we’re going for it again! Phonemic awareness is the understanding that spoken words are made up of smaller parts and these parts can be pulled apart ... Read More about All about Phonemic Awareness

As I mentioned in my previous post , I’m trying to incorporate more nonfiction into my reading instruction because of the new C...

Understand what phonics is all about and how it can be used for kids to become competent readers. Here’s a no-nonsense overview of everything you need to know.

Digital literacy… Information literacy… Technology literacy… There are so many “literacies” in education these days, but what do they all mean? Probably just what you …

This week, we learned … … there’s a lost continent in the Indian Ocean. How do you lose a continent? What’s a microcontinent? How’d scientists find the lost continent? … how Ikea names…

Happy Halloween SLPeeps! “I love when Halloween is on a Wednesday”… said NO person who works with or has children EVER! I hope you’re surviving this crazy week! We’v…

Hey there! Jen Bradshaw here from TeacherKARMA.com Teachers, can you believe that you actually have to tell your students to THINK WHILE THEY READ? Reading is Thinking Resource has the perfect anchor chart for working on: predict infer visualize make connections question the text summarize Grab your FREEBIE over at Teacher KARMA. Best wishes! Jen Bradshaw You Might ... Read More about READing is THINKing – Comprehension Anchor Chart

What does an artist do? Free printable artist reading passage for second-grade students. This reading worksheet will help students practice their comprehension skills. Kids encouraged to learn more about the topic and do a research using different sources. The font style and size appropriate for grade 2 students. Each line has

The number one concern that I hear from educators is lack of time, particularly lack of instructional time with students. Although we can't entirely solve the time problem, we can mitigate it by carefully analyzing our use of class time.