Some of My Students Still Aren't Getting it!
These are words that are often heard after the first semester of school comes to an end. So what can we do with those students who are still not getting it? Most likely it is time to back-up in the teaching continuum and become more purposeful and strategic; targeting students at their level along the path to independent reading.
First and foremost, don't be discouraged! Children develop at their own pace, and in accordance to their prior experiences. Remember, learning to read begins long before a child enters school. It begins at birth with vocabulary acquisition, with stories, songs, and rhymes repeated time and time again. It continues as games are played, books are read, and language is spoken. But as all educators know, not all children benefit from such rich experiences; conversely, they have limited exposure to language development opportunities.
Young children who already are feeling the phenomenon of The Matthew Effect, simply need a more deliberate path along the road to reading. Our job as teachers is to keep steady to the path. Here are a few ideas as you continue down the path of strategic teaching.
Provide deliberate opportunities for students to practice skills in a targeted way. Remember, deliberate practice involves repetition and strategic practice.
Provide many auditory motor opportunities. Can you copy my pattern? (Clap simple patterns for the child to copy. Beginning simple and advance as the child's perception increases). The old Simon game is a great developer of auditory motor perception.
Provide opportunities for students to parrot complete sentences. (Using a puppet, have the child(ren) mimic your sentence, such as "I like to jump and run!") As students mimic sentences, remember to also model voice inflection.
Count words in a sentence. "How many words are in this sentence, I can dance to music"? (If child(ren) are unable to count the words, try doing two sounds in a row and having him name the sounds heard.
After students are able to mimic, parrot, and recognize that sentences are made of individual words, move through the *reading continuum as pictured. (Download it for free below).
You will be amazed at the growth your students will make if you provide a firm foundation of reading skills in a sequential manner!
*Notice that throughout the continuum of teaching reading, many skills are taught in tandem. But notice that all skills have a sequential place in the continuum. Many times when students are struggling, the first thing to do is to return to the beginning of the time-line and make sure that beginning skills have been mastered. Like building a house, if the foundation is not solid, the bricks will not stay on the house.
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This packet includes activities to help your students understand the concept of rhyming. The lessons vary in style and format. Some lessons are scripted, others are designed for independent practice. Some lessons can be used with small groups while others can be completed with a large group. All lessons can be adapted to support struggling students or to challenge high-achieving students.
The unit is organized into 19 lessons to be spread out during 7 weeks. Many of the Teach Me To Read Units are meant to be taught in tandem, following the learning to read timeline.
Here is the link for the syllable unit: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Teach-Me-To-Read-Syllables-833730
Table of Contents Week 1 Day 1: Nursery Rhyme Time
Week 1 Day 2: The Hungry Duck
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Week 2 Day 1: Buggy Rhymes
Week 2 Day 2: Apple Tree Rhymes
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Week 3 Day 1: Web Treasures
Week 3 Day 2: Roll and Rhyme Halloween (or any season)
Week 3 Day 3: Halloween Rhyme Time
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Week 4 Day 1: Picture Pairs
Week 4 Day 2: Rhyming Flags
Week 4 Day 3: Turkey Lurkey Rhymes
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Week 5 Day 1: Rhyme Me a River
Week 5 Day 2: Le Revelillon
Week 5 Day 3: To The North Pole
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Week 6 Day 1: The Lost Mitten
Week 6 Day 2: Planes Trains and Everything Else
Week 6 Day 3: Match a Rhyme
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Week 7 Day 1: Rhyming Sunglasses
Week 7 Day 2: Home Tweet Home
Week 7 Day 3: T-Shirt Twins
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These alphabet lessons are developmentally appropriate and designed to teach early learners confidence with the alphabet.
The alphabet activities are based on reading research and national standards; they have been classroom tested by thousands of five and six year olds! The objectives, rationale, and/or language objectives are clearly stated for your added confidence. The material section is clear and concise to make lesson preparation a breeze! Remember to file all of the materials together in a file folder to make the preparation even easier the next time the lesson is delivered!
Building Letters: Students explore letter formation and analyze the similar features that letters share.
Write The School: Finding and writing Alphabet letters in a familiar environment.
Bus Stop: Recognizing letters of the alphabet and enjoy some Recess Time!
Letter Match: Matching uppercase letters on a Coconut Tree.
Alphabet Relay: Naming uppercase letters at a fast pace as a team competition.
Letter Treasure: Building toward automaticity of uppercase letters by playing an active game of letter discovery.
Don't Eat Pete!: Naming alphabet letters at a fast pace. But Don't Eat Pete!
The Cookie Jar: Drawing and naming alphabet letters to avoid the mouse!
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These Developmentally Appropriate Activities: Speech and Language for the Early Learner provides lessons and activities for the Common Core Standards ELA Literacy. SL.K.1-6.
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One of the goals of Phonics and Word Recognition is to help students build a bank of sight words. This packet contains seven activities that will do just that. All activities are strategically linked to the common core standards, highlighting RF.K.3c.
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Alphabet Chant Book
This engaging alphabet book from a-z focuses on letter sounds in a musical way! Students learn alphabet sounds just like magic with this engaging rap and alphabet book craft they are excited to take home, share and love.
The Alphabet Chant addresses the letters of the alphabet and their sounds. The rhythm and rhyme capture the attention of young students. With repeated readings, the students can soon join in saying the chant. As they listen or say the alphabet chant, the association between letter and sound is reinforced.
This packet includes a page for every letter of the alphabet, enabling each student to make an alphabet chant book. Each page features a portion of the chant along with an accompanying art project. The projects include coloring, painting, and constructing pictures. An alternative page is included for every construction page, allowing you the option of simplifying projects if desired.
The Alphabet Chant can be used with students of varying abilities. While it was designed to highlight the letter/sound association, it can be used effectively to introduce letters or sounds, reinforce rhymes, emphasize beginning sounds, and/or support sight word recognition. A set of alphabet and a set of related sight word flashcards are included in this packet to extend and strengthen skills as you complete the chant pages.
The Alphabet Chant book is very versatile and can be adapted to fit your needs. It can be completed over a period of one or two weeks or over a period of two or three months. It can be used to introduce or reinforce letters and sounds. It can supplement your alphabet study or be used as an intervention tool. The pages can be completed in alphabetical order or out of order to fit your sound introduction sequence. Make a book from the completed pages or collate the pages in advance and have the students color each page. You can even use the chant pages as individual pages, sending each home as it is finished!
Whatever options you choose, your students are sure to enjoy the Alphabet Chant. It is a fun and interactive way to focus on letters and sounds!
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CVC Word Work
Are your students like mine and need continual practice with CVC words? From my young kindergartners to the oldest of my reading intervention students, everyone benefits from practice with vowel consonant vowel patterns
The Contents of the CVC packet are all written in a scripted format for easy delivery.
Trace the Vowel Practicing Vowel Sounds
Flower Garden Sorting CVC Words
Memory Garden Reading and Matching Mixed Vowel Words
Watering Flowers Writing CVC Words
Whack-it Reading and Whacking CVC Words
Roll and Write Writing CVC Words
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Onset Rime Foundational Reading Skills
Blending and segmenting onsets and rimes of single-syllable spoken words is an important skill to prepare young readers to blend and segment. Teach this skill with confidence by playing these simple games with your students.
Contents
Bookstore Sale
Construction Zone
Color the Picture
Planting Flowers
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Syllables Games and Activities
This packet includes activities to help your students understand the concept of syllables. The lessons vary in style and format. Some lessons are scripted, others are designed for independent practice. Some lessons can be used with small groups while others can be completed with a large group. All lessons can be adapted to support struggling students or to challenge high-achieving students.
The unit is organized into 16 lessons to be spread out during 4 or more weeks.
Contents:
Week 1
Clapping Names
Syllable Objects
The Syllable Walk
Syllable Count
Week 2
Color Walk
Off To See The Wizard
Family Fun
Syllable Sale
Week 3
Animal Sort
The Country Store
Squirrel Sort
Race Up the Ladder
Week 4
Counting Syllables
I Can Syllables
Pumpkin Patch
Haunted House Syllables
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Your early learners will love these "Developmentally Appropriate" and easy to prepare games that is the secret sauce to alphabet instruction.
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Sight Words Worksheets
Are you looking for interactive sight words worksheets?
Make the most of your student's sight word practice by providing this great multi-task workbook or worksheets. Students are asked to color the word, trace the word, write the word, find the word, and then create the word as a puzzle. There is even a backside that allows the sight word to be painted.
This packet contains worksheets for 112 sight words. Among these are the 100 most common words, Wonders Reading, and Journeys wordlists.
a
about
all
an
and
am
are
as
at
be
been
but
by
can
called
come
could
day
did
do
does
down
each
find
first
for
from
get
go
good
had
has
have
he
help
her
here
him
his
how
I
if
in
into
is
it
its
like
long
love
little
look
made
make
me
my
many
may
more
no
now
not
number
of
on
one
or
other
out
play
part
people
she
said
see
so
some
than
that
the
their
then
them
these
they
there
this
time
to
too
two
way
up
use
want
was
water
we
will
were
with
what
when
where
which
who
write
would
words
yes
you
your
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Build strength for academic content by developing crucial oral language skills.
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Building a bank of sight words with early readers allow students to become better readers! Introducing those words in a variety of ways will help meet the needs of a diverse class of learners. These fun, varied, games will be a hit in your classroom. These games focus on the first 200 Fry sight words as well as sight word phrases. They are easily differentiated to meet the needs of your group.
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CVC Word Work
Are your students like mine and need continual practice with CVC words? From my young kindergartners to the oldest of my reading intervention students, everyone benefits from practice with vowel consonant vowel patterns
The Contents of the CVC packet are all written in a scripted format for easy delivery.
Trace the Vowel Practicing Vowel Sounds
Flower Garden Sorting CVC Words
Memory Garden Reading and Matching Mixed Vowel Words
Watering Flowers Writing CVC Words
Whack-it Reading and Whacking CVC Words
Roll and Write Writing CVC Words
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Also available at Teachers Pay Teachers!This packet includes six lessons to help your students understand the concept of phoneme isolation and fulfill Common Core Standard RF.K.2d.
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Are you looking for some great games that can be used to teach your students or homeschool students how to segment phonemes with fluency, the essential precursor to decoding? You will love this great packet! Helps with your Dibels scores too!
Games include:
Fingerprint CVC Words
The Big Game
BAM
Boo!
Simon Says Segmenting
Floating Sounds
Ladybug Dance
Santa Gets Dressed
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This 108 page “Phonics Prep” workbook, the first in a series, provides phonics practice that focuses on letters and sounds. It has been designed for students moving into reading. Four pages are devoted to each letter. They include the following:
A handwriting trace page
A beginning sound identification page
A missing letter page
A letter hunt page
The workbook pages are suited to being assigned on four consecutive days. Because the pages reinforce different aspects of alphabet recognition and the sound-symbol relationships within the alphabet, students can also complete more than one page during a work period if preferred. The workbook pages can be copied front and back or individually.
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One of the goals of the Common Core Strands of Phonics and Word Recognition is to help students use sounds to read words. Working with consonant and vowel sounds, Nonsense Words, CVC words, and high frequency words helps students move into reading.This packet includes lessons, games, and worksheets to help your students decode real and nonsense words.
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Phoneme Segmentation Fluency is a crucial phonemic awareness skill that prepares your student to decode CVC words.
Your children will love helping Santa get dressed so he can make his Christmas deliveries! This game includes a scripted lesson, over 100 cards that are perfect for segmenting practice, a Santa game mat, and Old Santa's sleigh to hold the collected gifts.
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These alphabet games for Learning Centers, and Small Targeted Groups are created using the latest research on reading instruction that really works. This packet focuses on crucial alphabet skills that can be easily taught and practiced in small groups. They can also be used in classrooms, homeschool, and intervention centers with confidence as they are scripted for easy delivery and standards based!
Contents Include:
Rainbow Letters
Alphabet Memory
Alphabet Flash
Alphabet Chant
Alphabet Picture Sorts
Letter/Picture Memory
The Hungry Dragon
Write the Room
Strategically practicing important reading skills will make your students or child improved readers!