New Product!

I don't know about you, but it seems like I am always trying to get my first graders to strengthen their sentence-writing skills!  We work on sentence editing a lot, but in addition, I require them to practice writing their own sentences once a week.  I have them practice during our Phonics instruction.  Most days, we play a Phonics game and/or do some sort of word attack activity with the word chunks we're learning, but I always devote one day to sentence writing practice!  My favorite activity to use for this are my "Cut, Glue, and Write" sentence writing packs.  Here's how they work:  Choose a specific word chunk or vowel that you are working on.  Print the page{s} to go with it.  Students will select three words/pictures to cut and glue onto their papers.  They will then use the words to write sentences, with the provided sentence rubric as their guide.  I like these because you're getting two for one: kids are decoding words with chunks we are working on in Phonics AND they are practicing sentence structure.  Win-Win!

So far, I have blends/digraphs, magic e, bossy-r, and vowel teams created.  Each blend/digraph/vowel team has more than one page to go with it, which is nice if you want/need to do this activity more than once with the same blend/digraph/vowel team.

Coming soon is short vowels.  I've created a growing bundle for you if you'd like to save money! Check them out below!  What do you do to help your kids practice sentence writing?

SAVE THAT MONEY!  BUNDLE PRICE WILL INCREASE WITH OTHER TWO PACKS ARE ADDED, WHICH WILL BE SOON!!!

xo
Megan

End of Year Review!

Good morning and TGIF!  With only 3 days left in the year, we've been spending some time reviewing the skills that we have learned in first grade.  Today I want to showcase two products that I really love that can be used for review!

First up is my Reading Foundational Skills Pack.  I posted this back in the late fall/early winter.  I think it's such a great product and want to show it to you.  It's chocked full of fun activities including: sentence scrambles, spinner games, board games, sorts, and tons more!  Click the cover to take a peek!

What I really love about this pack is that it's non-themed, so it can be used at any time throughout the year.  It's very appropriate for kinder and first, and even second {for RTI}.  This pack has 1-2 activities from each of the CCSS "Reading: Foundational Skills" standard.  Just last week my students played the blends board game that is included. I have really enjoyed having this pack for my students this year.  It's come in very handy for reading group and centers.  Take a look!

They love the blends/digraph board game!

Next is my Long Vowels and Vowel Teams pack.  It's a hot seller in my store and the kids seriously eat this up!  Each vowel team & long vowel has a board game, song, worksheets, and different activity to go along with it.  It's been great these last few weeks!  Click the cover to preview what's included!

This week in centers, my kids were playing "FIVE," one of the many games included. 

Happy long weekend!  What are your plans?

xo
Megan