Introducing my learners to  Stellaluna , by Janelle Cannon, is one of the things I most look forward to in October. Immersing my class in ...

It's about time, teachers , to describe more ways I use poetry in the classroom . . . Poetry is absolutely wonderful fo...

It’s about time, teachers, …  to begin working on  rimes .   At the white board, construct 3 known words that have the same ...

It's about time, teachers, for onset changes with harder analogies .  Begin by displaying the letters for a KNOWN word, plus another l...

The time has come, teachers, to focus on how onsets work in words.  To do this, present the letters for a set of known words, e.g. g o n o...

It's about time, teachers , to describe more ways I use poetry in the classroom . . . Poetry is absolutely wonderful for phonics in...