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Dear Katie, I love reading your blog! I’ve used your free Zoo Keeper Writing Strategies with my kinder class and the children really related, always showing me “how many animals (i.e. sounds) they caught” in their words! I’ve taught both 1st and 2nd grades for years, and now am in my seventh year of teaching […]
The brain is a pattern-making machine—seeking-out patterns and creating new ones. This is its natural system for learning. And yet, when it comes to teaching abstract letter sound and phonics skills for reading, it can be difficult (if not impossible) to feed the brain the logical explanations for letter sound behavior that it craves! The […]
Spotting Secrets EVERYWHERE! FREE Secret Stories® Shape Anchor Posters Can your kids spot the Secrets in text around your classroom? These free shape anchors with highlighted Secrets in the text will help them make the connection between the “secrets” they know about the letters and how they can help them to read (and […]
It Takes More Than Individual Letter Sounds to Read and Write! I sneakily took this pic at the end of snack the other day…. These 6 kids were engrossed in telling the Secrets (and trying to figure out the ones we haven’t learned yet!) The little guy in the stripes has become our unofficial “Word […]
I received this adorable picture and description from kindergarten teacher, Kjersti Johnson, along with the following email… I teach two sessions of half-day Kindergarten, with my morning class tied to our Intensive Support Class (4-8 fully inclusive kiddos) and my afternoon class with half ELL, plus a few in the am too!) I knew the […]
The more tools learners bring to the table, the more value they are able to take away… In order for learners to take full advantage of the daily literacy experiences we provide in the classroom, they must be given access to as much of the “code” as possible, as soon as possible! Knowing just 26 letter sounds and a […]
“But NINE other people were doing it too!” As September draws to a close, that initial excitement over “going back to school” begins to wear off. Most students by now have become acclimated to their new routine and the increased learning and behavior expectations in their new classroom. But for those who haven’t, the […]
The New SECRET STORIES® Guided Reader Series- In the Fall SECRET STORIES® READER- In the Fall I’m so excited about this that I couldn’t wait to share it! I sometimes feel like a broken record when I say that the SECRET STORIES® is not a program, but easily accessible, reading and writing tools to be used throughout the instructional […]
Common Core Made EASY!! Cutest EVER Common Core Social Studies Standard Posters (made to match the FREE Science Poster Sets!) FREE Pk-3rd Grade Common Core Science Posters This post is going to be short, but sweet!I just wanted to be sure and let everyone know that I have posted preview sets for the Common Core […]
Imagine you’re a beginning learner in Kindergarten, 1st, or 2nd grade, and you’re told about the grown-up reading & writing “”secret” al, and the sound they make when they get together in a word… A and L love balls! ALL balls… Footballs, baseballs, basketballs, volleyballs… ALL balls, ALL the time!! Armed with this new reading and writing tool, you naturally begin looking for […]
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