For use with Grade K and Grade 1 of the K-2 Reading Foundations Skills Block. Differentiation Packs can be used as a resource for planning differentiated small group instruction for students whose microphase aligns with work from a different grade level. This resource includes a comprehensive word list, key cycle information and texts for each grade level cycle, suggested instructional practices, poems, decodable readers, and handwriting sheets.

Learning Letters is a collection of all of the K-2 Reading Foundations Skills Block curricular materials related to learning about letter names, sounds, and formation. The contents include the research behind EL Education's approach to teaching letters, Letter Stories (engaging read-alouds, one for each letter of the alphabet and consonant digraph ("ch", "sh", and"th"), upper- and lowercase Keyword Cards (a colorful picture of the animal or object associated with each letter, and Handwriting Sheets (letter formation and handwriting practice sheets).

Madeline Noonan meets with all of her students individually during writer's workshop. In each conference, she specifically identifies strengths and two goals. Students continue to revise and rewrite throughout the workshop process and build confidence in their writing at the same time.

Instructional expert Jim Knight visits first year middle school teacher Aisha Santos to discuss pacing and structure of her lessons.

I have a fact sheet that has been helpful for me in explaining Phonics/ Phonemes/ Graphemes/ Phonemic Awareness/ Phonological Awareness.
I have several mini-books here that you can print for ESL/ LEP/ severe ABE students to learn basic vowel sounds.
Long/Short Vowel books is what I have here.
I have also added a few PowerPoints that i created with cc images that you can use to put up to encourage spelling/ phonemic skills.
Hope something here is helpful for you!!

In this interactive Kindergarten through 2nd grade activity, literacy and exercise unite! Using sight word flashcards, students use their bodies to spell out simple sight words. The use of their creativity and imaginations is encouraged so students can also identify how to make their bodies long, round, wide and narrow. This lesson primarily focuses on the use of psychomotor, cognitive andaffective skills. ***Access to Teacher's Domain content now requires free login to PBS Learning Media.

This light activity deals with "silent letters" of English language which are encountered in a large number of English language words. Students read a fairly simple dialogue with the blanks for words containing silent letters. Silent letters, however, are listed while the rest of the letters are blanked. Students find the missing words and become aware of silent letters. Great activity for a warm-up.

The measurable goal and curricular aim of this lesson are for students to be able to fluently retrieve words in spelling patterns, and correctly spell both irregularly-spelled grade-appropriate words and words with vowel and consonant-blend patterns. The three activities in this lesson plan enables students to use the knowledge they have learned in class to complete. Students have an individual assesment at the end to write their own story incorporating the concepts from this lesson.