One of the most strategic parts of teaching is grouping your students into center groups. Do you group them by skill, ability level, or who will work well together? You want your students to be able to work well together, but also be able to utilize practicing specific skills during
In Kindergarten, phonics is best taught using a combo of small group and whole group instruction. Now that you know what to teach in both small and whole group lessons, what are some go-to strategies you can use during your whole group phonics instruction? Here are 3 of my must-haves
Teachers need to constantly differentiate their instruction for their students. Everyone comes into their classroom at the start of the year at a variety of different levels and abilities, all needing very personalized instruction in order to succeed. It can feel very overwhelming to try and figure out what each
Most Kindergarten teachers would agree that a mix of teaching whole group lessons and small group lessons are important to reaching all your learners. You can’t teach Kindergarten without one or the other. They both work together really well. However, how do you decide what parts of your phonics lesson
Once your students can write a complete sentence independently, it is time to start expanding those sentences to add more details. Instead of “The dog can run.” you want your students to start writing sentences like, “The brown dog can run fast.” or even multiple sentences like “My brown dog
Teaching syllables is one of my favorite phonological awareness skills to teach! There are so many fun and engaging activities to practice syllables. You can read more about how to teach syllables in Kindergarten here. Today, I am sharing 3 simple hands-on syllable activity ideas you can try in your
Most Kindergarten teachers will teach or practice syllables with their students at some point in the year. Usually, a syllable activity just involves counting how many syllables are in the word. However, there is so much more that goes into teaching syllables than just counting the number of syllables. Here’s
In Kindergarten, one of the main writing skills that students will learn is how to write a sentence. Teaching kids how to write a sentence takes a lot of modeling and patience. You can watch how I teach how to model writing a sentence here. Once they are able to
Finding and planning STEM activities for kids can be a lot of work. You have to find the activity on Pinterest or a blog, grab all the materials, possibly go to the store to get any additional materials and then actually do it with your child. I am not a
