Welcome to reading2success designed to support parents, child care providers and teachers in coaching children to reading success. Best practices for toddlers, preschoolers, and elementary school students will be discussed, reviewed and demonstrated. Although, we are known for reading, we have also included sections on writing and math!
The Last Night is a story influenced by the books, Nocturnal Animals and The Hat. The story is followed with comprehension questions.
Video Story
Comprehension questions for the story video, The Last Night
Genre
Sequencing
Main Idea
Nocturnal Animals
Sorting Pictures and Board
Saturday, December 29, 2018
Consonant Digraphs or Consonant Blends?
Consonant Digraphs: When 2 or more consonants are blended together they make one new sound.
When c as in cow and h as in house are blended together they form one new sound /ch/ as in the beginning of cheese, chick, and chips or the ending of peach, inch and beach.
When s as in sun and h as in house are blended together they form one new sound /sh/ as in the beginning of shoe, sheep, ship or the ending of fish, bush and brush.
When t as in ten and h as in house are blended together they form one new sound /th/as in the beginning of think, thunder and three or the ending of bath, mouth and math.
When w as in wagon and h as in house are blended together they form one new sound /wh/ as in the beginning of whistle, whale and wheel.
When p as in penguin and h as in house are blended together they form one new sound /f/ as in the beginning of pheasant, phone and phonograph or the ending of graph, morph and phonograph.
View the illustrations and pronunciation of the digraphs in the video Part 1 Consonant Digraph or Consonant Blend?
Consonant Blend: When 2 or more consonants are blended together each sound is heard as in blast, blue, block, blaze, blend and bloom.
The letters b and r are blended together with both sounds heard as in bread, branch, brush, brick, bright and broom.
The letters s and p are blended together with both sounds heard as in spider, spray, sports, spinner, spy and spoon.
View the illustrations and pronunciation of the consonants in the video Part 2 - Consonant Digraph or Consonant Blend?
Student Generated. We created Ordinal Charts ranging from first - twentieth. Next, we completed activities to practice these numbers. Our cute snowmen were created with die cuts!
Referencing the Snowmen Charts, children filled in the missing position numbers. Also, they colored the snowmen according to the color words written.
Ordinal Numbers ranging from first - fifth
Ordinal Numbers ranging from sixth - tenth
Ordinal Numbers ranging from eleventh - fifteenth
An activity with ordinal numbers ranging from eighteenth - twentieth
Little Makers make creating and writing fun!
First We Create the Structures, Then We Create/Write the Stories!
Candy Shop Santa and Snowman have a sweet tooth! At the end of this post, you will find the templates available for both activities in this blog: Candy Shop and Igloo at the North Pole.
The Igloo At the North Pole
The Candy Shop At the North Pole Creative Writing Samples
Student Story - The penguin and the snowman were on a journey to find the candy house.
Student story: Penguin is in the bakery buying cookies for Santa and the elves.
The Snowman and the Penguin at the Igloo
Student story: The snowman and the penguin were going to meet each other at the North Pole.
Welcome Winter Bulletin Board Featuring Student Writing Generated from the Igloo Structure
Templates for the Candy Shop and North Pole Igloo structures
Video Story
