We are in the full swing of literacy centers in my kindergarten classroom. I'm always looking for new ways to make reading instruction and skill practice exciting for my kiddos.
I downloaded these free CVC/CCVC cards on TpT, but you could use any picture cards to cover skills you are working on. My students use magnetic letters to build the words on a magnetic board. I purchased the magnetic boards at JoAnn Etc. 3-4 years ago. I only have 3, so any additional students use a magnetic dry erase board. They take a photo and upload to the Seesaw app for me to see and to share with their families. They are excited to use the magnetic letters, and I feel this is something we can use throughout the year to practice many different skills (CVC, CVCe, sight words, etc).
ABC Fun
In Kindergarten, the first few weeks are all about our ABC's!!
Each day, we introduced a new letter and it went a little something like this:
We start our morning with a letter review. We introduce the letter and its sound. Then we practice stretching some words with that sound. I find it helpful to have the kids applying their sounds as they are learning them. It gives them a purpose rather than just rote memorization. After we blend a few words, we sing some songs. My kiddos LOVE Heidisongs and we sing them every day.
Homework: The Great Debate
As I'm sure you've all seen, homework has been in the news. The teacher from Texas sent a letter home to her parents, someone posted it, and it went viral. There has been more publicity with homework because of this, but I have struggled with it for a while. As the RtI coordinator in our building, had a teacher refer a student for academic difficulties, but blamed the issue entirely on incomplete homework. Really? Should homework hold that much power?
Repurposing OLD Literacy Materials
If you are a new teacher, you might walk into your new classroom and find the closets and cabinets full of literacy curriculum materials from the last twenty years (literally). And if you are an experienced teacher, you might be the one filling those closets! Or maybe you just inherited some piles when moving classrooms. Either way, we all know the sight of the hallway just full of books and workbooks lined up next to the doors waiting to be picked up by the janitorial staff.
Have you ever thought about how you could repurpose SOME (not all!) of these materials? Here are a few suggestions.
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