GRAMMAR UNIT 7: CONTRACTIONS It is time to teach contractions ! My students have come so far with their grammar skills in units 1-6. Our language has improved so much as we have been learning about nouns , adjectives , verbs , adverbs , capitalization , and punctuation .

Your students will love learning to read and write Wild Old Words with these wild old words games and activities. Great for small group instruction or for activities within first grade literacy centers or second grade literacy centers!

Try these simple activities for phonics practice with your class! This no-prep phonics game is a great way to keep your students learning!

Literacy centers in 2nd grade are a way to achieve engaged meaningful reading instruction with differentiated activities.

Spin a Word and so many other fun digraphs centers that are no prep and fun

If your learner is working on blends or digraphs, you’ll want to grab a copy of these free phonics dice games for blends & digraphs. *This post contains affiliate links. **The free download can be found at the END of this post. A little background… My daughter, now in 2nd grade, went to a part-time school ... Read More about Phonics Dice Games for Blends and Digraphs

This free Kindergarten sentence building and writing center is perfect for practice with making simple sentences for beginning writers!

Our principal has really been encouraging us to add more writing into our daily lesson plans. "They should be writing all day long" he tells us. The research is there to back him up. I bumped into this Roll and Retell page from Fun In First on Pinterest awhile back and finally figured out how to add it to our learning day. I printed and laminated four copies of the Roll and Retell page to hand out to each of my four table groups. After a round of Daily 5 I handed them out. I also gave each…

Find 10 FREE sight word games and activities for your students to use during literacy centers. Many of these require very little materials to make.

Centers are the hallmark of my classroom. Call them whatever you want: purposeful practice, rotations, stations…whatever they are to you. They are IMPORTANT. Without a solid center routine, your small group instruction is disrupted and disjointed. Without a solid center routine, your literacy bloc