Teaching Tips, Strategies and Best Practices Shared by Mrs. Moorehead
Phonics Phones
Phonics phones serve as devices for students to hear themselves as they read and speak. Students are able to focus on sounds and speak softly. Phonics phones can enhance reading skills like fluency.
My students really enjoy using phonics phones. They have the opportunity to listen closely to letter sounds, word beginnings and endings and pronunciation.
We use phonics phone in our centers. We read the room, read a book or talk to a friend with a phonics phone.
These PVC pipes were purchased from Home Depot.
Sight Word Activities for Emergent Readers
High frequency or sight words appear often in text and are words that are useful to emergent readers. Knowing words that appear over and over help students to become fluent readers and writers. These words can eventually be used to build new words.
Help students with known or almost known sight words by focusing on featured sight words in charts, text and Fluency Sentence Strips.
Literacy centers, or games like Bingo, that draw emergent readers to words are helpful in the beginning stages of literacy learning.
Emergent books build confidence in early readers. Students will be able to read emergent-reader texts with purpose and understanding.
Book of the Month
To kick off our Book of the Month, I have selected Kids Who Pray for the U.S.A.
I think it is the perfect book for young children in America right now. We are at a time where we need to show love to one another no matter what we look like or where we come from. This book is the perfect way for children to demonstrate and express their faith through journal writing, activities and daily prayer. It also includes fun facts about the United States.
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Segment Sounds to Make Words
Segment sounds and make words. Students isolate and pronounce the initial, medial vowel, and final sounds (phonemes) in three-phoneme (consonant-vowel-consonant, or CVC) words. Spell out the word using bottle tops.
Make Learning Last: How Diverse Learners Can Process Their Understanding
Make Learning Last: How Diverse Learners Can Process Their Understanding: Quick reflections, surveys, and diverse perspective assessments can stabilize your instructional framework by giving students a chance for the epiphanies so critical to their learning.
Visual Cues
Using Visual Cues to Communicate and Give Directions: Visual cues can help you communicate with students of all ages.
Rhyming
Use this puzzle in your literacy centers to build phonological awareness. Students recognize and match rhyming pairs. Cards measure approx. 3.5" x 4".
Reading Partners and Fluency Practice
Students
read a book to a partner.
Children practice reading the book
several times until they can read it with ease.
Reread
the book together. Partners alternate
reading the pages. Children try
to read as if they are talking to a friend.
Read the book chorally.
A-Z
Worksheets
for
Black
History Month
Worksheets
for your young child/students to use during Black History Month or anytime
during the year. Learn about inventions made by African Americans
Word
Family Board
I created this "Word Family Board" for students to use as a center to reinforce and strengthen skills. Each week I add a new word family for students to explore. Students work independently or in small groups. The board includes:
- a word family poem
- word family chart
- word slides
- pocket for a word family puzzle
- worksheets (cut and paste)
- Material comes from http://www.carlscorner.us.com/WordWay.htm.
I added labels, made pockets and used sheet protectors for easy transition. The board was purchased at Dollar Tree. Perfect if you have limited space in your class.
Very inexpensive, quick and easy to make, and it is an effective center.
Building a Sentence in the Block Center
Sorting Leaves
Red, Yellow, Green, Orange...
We went on a leaf hunt. Students collected colorful leaves from around our school. We brought them back to class and sorted the leaves by color on chart paper.
Mrs. Moorehead with Author Audrey Penn
Books to Read on the First Day!
- Wemberly Worried
by Kevin Henkes
- The Teacher From the Black Lagoon by Mike Thaler
- Chrysanthemum
by Kevin Henkes
- The Big Day at School
by Eleanor Fremont
- The Night Before Kindergarten by Natasha Wing
- Look Out Kindergarten, Here I Come by Nancy Carlson
- Kindergarten Rocks!
by Katie Davis
- Welcome to Kindergarten by Ann Rockwell
- Miss Bindergarten Gets Ready for Kindergarten by Joseph Slate
- Countdown to Kindergarten by Alison McGhee
- Annbelle Swift Kindergartener by Amy Schwarts
- Who Will Go To Kindergarten Today? by Karl Ruhmann
Space Saver
Mrs. Moorehead's Learning Zone: Organization: Making Space : I have had large classrooms, not so large and more recently, a very small classroom. I found it quite challenging trying t...
Quick and Easy Summer Craft
Mrs. Moorehead's Learning Zone: Quick and Easy Summer Craft: Here is an easy craft that does not require much material. Use a paper towel roll, not a toilet roll (for health reasons). One roll ca...
Quick and Easy Craft
Here is an easy craft that does not require much material. Use a paper towel roll, not a toilet roll (for health reasons). One roll can make 4-5 bracelets. Just paint, let dry and add any decorations your heart desires. Be sure to cut a slit for easy access.
Phonological Awareness
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