CVC words and CVC sentence fluency is an important skills for early readers in kindergarten and first grade to practice. It’s also important to teach these skills in a structured and systematic way. Here’s how to work on CVC word and CVC sentence fluency in your classroom. Ways to Practice CVC Words Before you put sentences in front of your students, you want to start with practicing…
Being Reflective is one of the IB Learner Profile characteristics that we should be encouraging in students. Here are some of my favorite books for encouraging this important skill. This post contains affiliate Amazon links. That means that if you click on a link and make a purchase, I earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. In…
Hello My Name is Octicorn is a cute and sweet book about an octicorn named octi. He is part octopus, part unicorn and 100 lonely. He has a hard time fitting in because he’s to unicorn-y for the octopi and too much of an octopus for the unicorns. It’s a great book to talk about accepting and understanding how we’re…
Teaching new sounds using science of reading based approaches doesn’t have to be complicated. In my first grade classroom, after we review letter sounds quickly, we begin to introduce a new sound each week based on the sound progression from our phonics program. Here are the simple and effective ways we learn a new sound in first grade. Day 1-…
The IB learner profile is an important and central part of the inquiry based learning approach. Each unit of inquiry should help nurture and grow these skills in your students. Here is how and why I organized my classroom library by IB learner profile skills. Why Organized Your IB PYP Classroom Library by Learner Profile Skill? In the past, before…