Happy December 1st everyone!

All I can think about is gingerbread stories, gingerbread-scented candles, and 

frosted gingerbread cookies from Traders Joe's. 

 

Yesterday I shared the phoneme-grapheme monthly templates for December. If 

you did not grab those, head on over to my Linktree to do so. Today I am sharing 

another phoneme-grapheme template using poppit fidgets. 

 

  By now you know that I LOVE being thematic-it makes learning fun for my students 

and me! This year I introduced holiday poppits and you would have thought Santa 

🎅🏽 himself had come to visit. They were so excited to pick one. 

 

Not only is this an engaging way to practice P-G mapping, phoneme-grapheme 

mapping is a research-based activity that helps early and transitional readers 

build word recognition skills. Word recognition skills allow students to identify words, 

first through the decoding process and later automatically. And we know that 

based on the Simple View of Reading Framework, mastery of word recognition is 

one of the components required for automatic fluent reading. 

 

 

  You can find these FREE templates under Orton-Gillingham Resources in the link 

below. Which one will you use with your students?

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December Phoneme-Grapheme Templates

It's almost December and there's so much to do!

I know these last couple of weeks before Winter Break may be chaotic, rushed, and at times very stressful. I also know that they are students' favorite. 

I'll be administering middle of year assessments before we go off on break to plan and organize for my intervention groups come January. --I'm not worried. 😅 

Every month I share lots of resources for FREE that I use and have found to be very successful with my students. 

🎄visual drills

🎄phoneme-mapping templates 

🎄visual blending boards

🎄ABC review digital files

🎄Tricky words review digital files

🎄and many more!

Today I'm sharing my phoneme-grapheme mapping templates. 

 

 

Phonemes are the sounds we hear in words. Graphemes are the letters that represent the sounds. Phoneme-grapheme mapping is a research-based activity that helps early and transitional readers build word recognition skills. I like to connect the words we will map to my Phonemic Awareness lesson. It really helps my students learn that a spoken word is made up of individual sounds and those sounds are represented by a letter or group of letters. This helps children learn how sounds are spelled with letters. When we help students decode/encode, we are helping solidify their understanding and knowledge of the alphabetic principle. 

Here is a video of a student using the template. 

You can find these templates on my Linktree by clicking the picture above. It is under Orton-Gillingham resources.

Let me know which template you will be using first.

Happy Monday everyone!

So do you like Lucky Charms? I personally really liked it as a kid and occasionally still have a bowl.

Today I came into work with all my leprechaun goodies. I was more popular than Santa Claus. They were over the moon to use all the manipulatives and our thematic placemats.

I also used this file with my kinder students and every single one knew about Lucky Charms. Engagement Learning

Click here to go to the resource page.

Let me know which CVC+ file so far is your kiddos' favorite.

I'm working on 5 more. I gave the kiddos a sneak peek-they cheered. YES!

Happy Marshmallows,

March Phoneme-Grapheme Templates-St Patrick's Theme

Hello everyone!

This week will be filled with fun and edible hands on manipulatives for the kiddos. We will be using gold and green coins, thematic erasers for chips, marshmallows for pushing sounds, and thematic beads for segmenting. 

 

 

March Manipulatives

We will be using these phoneme-grapheme templates to practice our sound-symbol correlations. I have attached the phoneme-grapheme templates for FREE. 

What are your plans for this week?

Distance Learning Mayhem

Hello Peeps, 
It has been awhile now and our current situation doesn't help. As a mother, wife, and teacher at home balancing all three and more, I feel like I have been thrust into a bullet-like roller coaster that has no end. I go through moments of anxiety, frustration, tranquility, peace, happiness all blended together and all in one day. I try to remind myself that no matter what our current situation might be, we need to stay positive, clam, and do the best we can at the moment. 

Today I wanted to share with you about an amazing website I recently started using with my kiddos!

"Flipgrid is a website that allows teachers to create "grids" to facilitate video discussions. Each grid is like a message board where teachers can pose questions, called "topics," and their students can post video responses that appear in a tiled grid display."

Students respond to a question you post via video right on the site. Students can then respond to each other and make comments. This is a great outlet to help kids think through their responses, to formulate ideas, presenting, and listening and speaking. 

It is a straight forward setup and they also provide a help link if you get stuck- not that you would 😉. When students posts their responses via video, I always find myself having so much fun watching them. Their little personalities come through-and it makes me feel like we are still in the classroom together. 

Once you join, come back and let me know how it went.