Can I...? The can had beans in it. 'Can' is our word today. Now you are probably thinking what is the purpose of this word? Too simple....

Have you ever really thought about teaching phonics... I like to remember that kids need repetition over and over and over. Teaching high...

I can not begin to explain the power of a white board!!! I use white boards for every thing... I think. I really like to use them to...

Teaching parts of words can be very hard and tricky. The first thing we think about are word families. Yes these little families serve a...

As I think about teaching the short u sound, I don't think it is very hard. /u/ sounds like /u/. But, mud, puddle, umbrella. It is not...

When we think about sounds we are trying to teach our students, the /aw/ sound comes to mind. Again this is two letters that make one...

When I teach my students how to read a sound, I like to project words that have that sound in them. I like to think about it as we are...

If you haven't discovered Thinking Maps yet- GO DO YOUR RESEARCH! I am totally obsessed with there effectiveness and success they bring...

As I can not stress enough... find a high frequency word to use with your students that can also be a sound word. When we teach our...

When I teach, I think about how I can teach as simple as possible. Quality over quantity right? So when it comes to teaching vowels that...

In the spirit of "Be the I in Kind" and celebrating kindness, I just kept thinking about this word. Kind. K-long i-nd. Why is the i in...

Vowels are a, e, i, o u. They make two different sounds. They say their names. A like the word ape. E like the word eagle. I like the...

What are high frequency words? According to some research, "Sight words, often also called high frequency sight words, are commonly used...

Silent e. This is quite an idea and a concept. When we see the e at the end of the word it tells the vowel to say it's name. Like is a...

The letter t is one of the most popular letters in the English language. In the first sentence the letter t was used 9 times. Looking...

Why do we say tha but spell it t-h-e... Wow this word is very tricky. Sometimes it sounds more like tha, like pick up the phone....

As I have expressed before, letters are our symbols to show our thoughts as our words. But somethings we have to understand there are...

I am always finding a new way to get my students involved with building words. I’ve used tiles, building blocks and stack-able cubes,...

Today we are going to teach students to make the word -my- come alive and become a word students need to know. Yes it is a high frequency...