Kleinspiration

I am so honored and pleased to be today's guest blogger on Kleinspiration!  I wrote about the website http://www.readinga-z.com/ .  If your school is not a member, you can still get samples of the leveled texts, alphabet chants, wordless books, comic books, poetry, reader's theater, and decodables. These free samples are available for downloading.  The projectables that I wrote about on Kleinspiration are not available as samples. 

I like printing out books from Reading A-Z because children can mark them up when we do our word study.  If you use Wilson Reading System, there are some decodables that correlate with some of the steps.  For instance, the decodable title Dan the Tan Man is great practice if you are teaching the AN weld in step 1.  There are also decodables that focus on R-controlled vowels, digraphs, blends and vowel-consonant-E patterns. 

Reading A-Z also has running records and assessment books available.  This is a great site that will supplement your reading program very well! 

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Enjoy,

 

Syllable Score

You have to love seasonal merchandise!  Once again, the mother ship was calling me home.  I found some unique Easter eggs at Dollar Tree.  The eggs are decorated to look like basketballs and footballs.  I have been making a lot of math games lately, so I decided to put together a literacy game.  Syllable Score is a game for students to practice identifying and marking syllable types.  I wrote one syllable of a nonsense word on the inside of each half.  The students write the nonsense word, scoop the syllables, and label the syllable type. 

Unfortunately, you can not see the syllables very clearly.  On the second picture the egg has the syllables so deam written inside.  The students would rewrite the syllables on a piece of paper and then label the syllables. 

The students would scoop the syllables, label the syllable type, and mark the vowel sound.  Now that we have learned all six syllable types, this is a great way to practice recognizing and marking syllables. 
Fondly,