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Keep students engaged: EASY phonics center + Freebie!
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Hello Reader, You AND your students will love this super easy phonics center and they will ask for more: These little flip books are one page to print, easy to cut, easy to staple, and great practice for reading word families! Each book also includes one nonsense word. Students have to circle whether it is a real word or not a word. Differentiate with various levels: β βSee ALL Word Family FLIP Books HERE. Sets are priced as low as $2.00!β P.S. Grab a FREE sample of one Short a FLIP Book HERE to try it out! You'll love it! |
Joyce and Steve | 1st Grade Pandamania
We are Joyce and Steve, educators with over 60 years of experience. Our mission is to help teachers and homeschool parents target π― their instruction to enhance student learning. We are excited to share our ideas, easy-to-use materials, and wealth of knowledge with you. Subscribe to our weekly newsletter and receive tips and FREE resources to help you and your primary students thrive this school year! π
Hello Reader, When we group and regroup students regularly based on data, we are grouping flexibly. As our students' goals change, our instruction to target those goals changes. *If you want to read more about how to assess, group, and instruct students flexibly, see the link to a great blog post at the ββbottom.ββ Once you have them in appropriate learning groups, we get busy organizing our materials. Here are some materials that you can easily create every time you re-group students! Just...
Hello Reader, Fluency speed drills are a game changer for building reading fluency, automaticity, sight word fluency, decoding, and more! But don't take our word for it... "This resource has really helped me integrate fluency practice in my small group time easily. They are quick and students love to complete them. I also love that they have skills that relate to what we are learning for the whole year. My students have been using them for about three weeks and I've already noticed a...
Hello Reader, It's almost April, but this is no April Fool's joke...Scroll down for your exclusive, FREE Spring Activity! Spring is a time for new life, and a perfect time to introduce some life cycles for science and reading! Learning about life cycles is important for our young students. Life cycles outline the stages of development and processes that living organisms go through from birth to reproduction. Complete with lesson plans and more than enough activities for a 3-week unit! Living...