Literacy 4 Little Learners - Charity

There’s a lot packed into a kindergarten phonics lesson. Sentence encoding was the part I found myself…

Small groups don’t need to be long to give kindergarteners meaningful practice. Mine were never more than…

Counting to five can look easy until you watch a kindergartner count five objects. Did they touch each one…

How do you run a kindergarten small group without it turning into another full phonics lesson? ☀️ Start with…

Now’s the perfect time to add some fall themed read alouds into the mix. 🍂 What is your MUST READ book for…

Sometimes a student doesn’t need more phonics practice. They need phonics practice to feel different. 🥹 I…

This is usually the point in the year when a few students start standing out. The class is moving into…

Sometimes number recognition isn’t really the part that’s tripping them up. A kindergartner might be able to…

Kindergarten students can grow SO much between September and November. 🍂 So the centers they’re using in…

There’s a big difference between a kindergartner who can count to 8 and a kindergartner who really…

You have a student who knows these sounds. You point to the letters and they can tell you /m/ /a/ /t/. No…

Cute doesn’t mean engaging. 🍂 I learned that one pretty quickly after putting out a fall center that looked…

One thing I learned pretty quickly during small groups… independent phonics practice only works if students…

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If you’re a few weeks into phonics and starting to wonder, “Okay… but who actually has these sounds down?”…

Sometimes the handwriting struggle isn’t really about handwriting. ✏️ A student can know where to start a…

There’s a really fine balance between a center that’s too hard and one that’s so easy it becomes busy work.…

When we think about getting five-year-olds ready to write, it’s easy to jump straight to pencils and…

If a student is struggling with letter ID, I want them spending center time looking closely at letters…

Pumpkin spice, falling leaves, and… place value? 🍂🎃 This fall math center is a huge hit and don’t even…

One small shift in small groups makes such a difference in how confidently kids approach reading. 💛 Before…

Story Tray Week 3: COMMUNITY 🏘️ In kindergarten, the idea of “community” usually starts pretty small.…

Syllables can be surprisingly tricky for little learners at first. We can say, “Let’s chop up a word,” or…

One thing I’m really intentional about at the beginning of kindergarten is not jumping straight from “I…