Find-A-Book Website: bookpig.com
Check out bookpig.com. This website is a great resources for finding books. They're sorted by grade level, genre and award winners. What I like is that they suggest books based on your favorites. It also gives you approximate reading levels for each book. You can...
Fairy Tales
Introduction to Fairy Tales Lesson Includes vocabulary, characteristics and information about authors. Fairy Tale Writing: I've done two versions of using Fairy Tale words (vocabulary) for writing activities. Version 1: These words are cut apart and placed in a brown...
Fun Tip for Reluctant Writers
New Tab: Book Lists
Check out the new tab I created: List of Books by Theme. The list is something I've been compiling for years. It encompasses academic themes and units; alphabet, rhyming, cowboys, bears, etc. --but more importantly, it lists books you can use to address the...
FREE Kindergarten and 1st grade Printables!!
Click on the tabs at the top for FREE Resources, Links and Printables: worksheets, books, classroom posters, lesson plans and more...
More About Learning to Read Using Songs
I created a tab at the top Called Learning to Read Through Songs with links and lyrics. I wanted to expand on that and tell you why this is important and why it works. I am not a musical teacher. I don't sing to the kids about cleaning up or starting with a...