Reading Fluency with Decodable Text
You’ve done the hard work of weaving decodable text into your small‑group lessons. Your students are filling phonics gaps, sounding out unfamiliar words, and growing more confident every day. 🎉But…
Category: Classroom
Setting Up Your Classroom for Science of Reading Success
The back-to-school season is full of excitement, fresh supplies (I can already smell those new crayons!), and a little bit (or a lot 🙂 of stress. As you set up…
Why Reading Fluency Matters (and How I Finally Found an Easy Way to Build It)
The “A-ha!” Moment We All Want You know that sparkle you see when a child stops sounding-out every…single…letter and suddenly reads a whole sentence like it’s music? That’s reading fluency…
5 Effective Strategies to Prevent the Summer Slide
As the school year comes to an end and the temperature rises, the summer season brings about the dreaded “summer slide” for many maybe even most students. This phenomenon refers…
Decodables for Back to School
Hey teacher friend, ever walk into well…. pretty much any store in July and cringe when you see the big Back to School display glaring right at you? I am…
Science of Reading Kindergarten Ideas for Spring
Are you working hard to implement activities that are aligned with the Science of Reading for Kindergarten in your classroom, but sometimes find it a challenge to still include seasonal…
Planning for Small Group Instruction in Kindergarten
Planning for small group instruction in kindergarten is all about the letters! At least at the beginning of the year. So picture this, you are in your kindergarten classroom, with…
How to Use Decodable Readers in First Grade Small Groups
Magic happens during my small group time now that I have switched to Decodable Readers rather than guided reading text. (Wondering Decodable Readers are? Check out this post to learn…
