Literacy Center Ideas - hands-on literacy center activities perfect for 5-8 years | you clever monkey

CRACK THE CODE CARDS - perfect for children learning the beginning sounds and practice blending sounds into simple words | you clever monkey

Circle time literacy activities

Make a fantastic reading resource with this phonics cups literacy game for kids! Adaptable to suit different stages of phonics development, simple and quick to put together and perfect for both classroom and home learning. Teaching phonics is such a vital part of reading development in young children. Partnered alongside recognising “tricky” words by sight,...Read More »

The Teacher Studio: Learning, Thinking, Creating: Literacy Lessons

Don't let a short schedule keep you from providing engaging library programming. These 30-minute library lessons are perfect for librarians!

How to create a retell literacy center in kindergarten. Plus a list of 20 famous stories and retell props (with printables) to complete this center.

How to teach the letters and sounds through play! Fun hands on alphabet activities for preschoolers.

What Reading Strategies Work In Every Content Area? by TeachThought Staff Reading is simply a sequence of symbol interpretation. By understanding that letters make sounds, we can blend those sounds together to make whole sounds that symbolize meaning we can all exchange with one another. By mastering the symbols and their most common contexts, reading becomes a practice in thought--less about decoding and more about understanding. Without getting too Platonic about it all, reading doesn't…