Helping Beginning Readers at Home: The Right Kind of Reading Practice
“How can I help my child with reading practice at home?” Goodness gracious! If I have heard that question once, I have heard it a thousand times. And honestly, I…
Category: Decodable Text
An Easy Way to Build Reading Fluency in Kindergarten
How I Use Reading Fluency Folders in Kindergarten The first few minutes of the morning truly set the tone for the day—at least they do in my classroom. How about…
How to Set Up Your Science of Reading Classroom
It’s almost time to set up your classroom for the new year, and you have so many ideas! New centers, fresh new border, and Science of Reading essentials? You might…
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…
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…
Pumpkin Jack O Lantern Decomposition Ideas
Its October! And since day one, my kiddos have asked me how many more days until Halloween. They were so excited to dress up, get candy, and turn our pumpkin…
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…
Running Record Assessments With Decodable Text.
So you are moving toward the Science of Reading best practices, phonics instruction is playing a part in daily lessons, phonological awareness is incorporated, and yay! you are using decodable…
