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.
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