It’s the thirty-second day of school. Over half my kinders are ‘Top Bananas,’ I’ve introduced and we’ve reviewed over half the letters of the alphabet, they are showing signs of segmenting and blending, they totally ‘get’ patterns, and I’m feeling like it’s time to introduce word families. Since you all have had so many questions about this part of my classroom routine, I thought I’d show you a bit more about how I introduce, differentiate and maintain this part of my ELA instruction. I’m ... VIEW POST
Ingredients For Successful Word Family Instruction
Planning on Valentine’s Word Work Stations and a BIG BIG Sale.
February has arrived and that means that it's time to turn my thoughts from polar animals and snowmen and turn them towards that pink month. The one that my kiddos never want to end. In fact, they love it so much and the month is so short that we're usually utilizing Valentine's activities for the entire month. I have to say, I'm ok with that.So time to say good-bye to my sweet snowmen at night in the hall outside my class. Didn't they do a great job on the snowflakes ... VIEW POST
Short ‘A’ Word Family Word Work Galore Bundle-Differentiated/Aligned
Short ‘a’ Word Families Galore Word family study is an essential part of reading instruction. They represent patterns in our language. By mastering these single syllable words, students become more comfortable with rhyming and eventually learn to decode longer, more complex words. All this will help your students become better readers. This Word Family packet includes six short ‘a’ families included in Short “a’ Word Families Galore. THIS UNIT IS HUGE-193 PAGES LONG. PLEASE CHECK OUT THE ... VIEW POST
Differentiating Word Family Study
This marks my class' sixth week of word family study, and I absolutely love the routines we have establish for participating in word family activities and the success my kinders are feeling in recognizing and reading these important words that will make reading so much easier in the coming months. They are recognizing chunks and referring to the word family wall regularly, and I can really see how confident they have become. Needless to say, we love word family work. I've had quite a ... VIEW POST
All In the Family (The Word Family That Is) and a Freebie to Get you Started
I am a true believer in the power of FAMILY...specifically Word Families. In my own classroom, it's an essential part of my Daily 5 Word Work. Word families, or some people call them chunks (families is just so much more friendly sounding to me but to each their own), help readers look for patterns when decoding. When your students recognize those patterns, they can more easily sound out words they don't readily know. It is always amazing to watch when a light suddenly turns on ... VIEW POST
Short “i” Word Families Word Work Galore-Differentiated and Aligned
Short “I” Family Word Work Galore Word family study is an essential part of reading instruction. They represent patterns in our language. By mastering these single syllable words, students become more comfortable with rhyming and eventually learn to decode longer, more complex words. All this will help your students become better readers. This Word Family packet includes activities for the 4 short “I” word families. For each word family, there is a week’s worth of activities included to ... VIEW POST
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