Word Sorts

Sort sounds into mini trash cans from the dollar store for super fun word sorts activities

Do your students need practice with short and long vowel sounds? Use these free word sorts to supplement your regular phonics instruction! Great for guided reading, centers, interventions, and more! #kindergarten #firstgrade #secondgrade #guidedreading #phonics #readingintervention #wordsorts #literacycenters #centeractivities #readinglessons #freeteachingresources #freelessons

If you’re looking for some Vowel Team Word Sorts, you’re in the right place! My first grader and I have been working through vowel pairs since Christmas. I created these simple sorts for her to review the vowel teams we’ve worked on. Did you know we have even more Vowel Team Printables? Yep, we do! ... Read More about Vowel Team Word Sorts – Cut & Sort

Shortly after teaching the letters and sounds of the alphabet we introduce the concept that some letters actually have two sounds. The five vowels have two sounds- a long sound and a short sound. We often say that the “vowel says its name” when it makes the long sound. Word sorting activities are great when […]

I'm joining Carolyn at Kindergarten: Holding Hands and Sticking Together who is hosting her first ever linky to share favorite funny school stories. What a fun idea! I've been teaching for thirteen years. Most of my time has been with little kids in first. Little kids have some very interesting stories from home. With my daughter starting kindergarten next year, I shutter to think what she will be saying. Anyhow, the story I want to share is not one told to me by one of my firsties. It is…

Boy was it a cold start back after winter break. I can take a few days of this weather, but I'm just about over it. Of course the cold did not slow us down in class. We made the most out of the 3 days and 5 hours that we had this week. (Monday was an admin. day and Thursday was a delayed start.) My goals for this week were to introduce our January math and literacy centers (all 21 of them), to do a little Daily 5 retraining, to launch Rocket Math (addition fact drills), to teach all about Y…

Word sort choices to go with words their way.

Welcome to This Reading Mama! If you’re joining me for the first time, I’m smack dab in the middle of a series on Word Study, joining some amazing bloggers in iHomeschool Network’s Hopscotch! I’m so glad you’re here. If you missed Days 1-5 of Teaching Spelling Through Word Study, feel free to click on the above ... Read More about Introducing a Word Sort

Here are free CVC word lists and short vowel words by vowel sound to help kindergarten and first grade students and teachers.

These days have a similar routine. After the whole group part of our Word Study time, students will meet with their word study partner. I assigned partners so that each partner pair is in the same word study group and are therefore working with the same sort each week. Students will begin by sitting back-to-back with their partner and sorting independently. After sorting, they sit next to each other and take turns reading each word in their sort. After completing this, partners will work on…