by Creation Castle | Language Arts, Reading
A simple, engaging way to incorporate rhyming into your daily lessons is through read alouds. Captivating trade books can pull in even your most reluctant learners! Countless books include rhyming as part of the book’s cadence. Check out a few of these rhyming books –...
by Creation Castle | Language Arts
Rhyming is a skill that typically students understand fairly quickly or they need to work on it a lot. With that second group of students, you’ll want to provide varied practice so they don’t come to dread the skill. Rhyming games are a great way to trick...
by Creation Castle | Language Arts
Today I want to share a super fun game that you can use to practice rhyming. This game would be great for your morning meeting or those little bits of time when you’re waiting to go to specials. To play this game, you only need your thinking cap and the ability to...
by Creation Castle | Language Arts, New Teacher
Rhyming is an integral part of phonological awareness. It is also one of those skills that students just get… or will need to work hard to master. While rhyming isn’t a necessary skill to learn how to read (like segmenting and blending sounds), it does have many...
by Creation Castle | Language Arts, New Teacher
Stamping centers can be used for so many skills and they are fantastic as permanent centers. Permanent centers are less work for the teacher because you use the same materials and just switch out content. But even better, they grow with the students which makes things...
by Creation Castle | Reading, Holiday, Language Arts
Close reading involves reading short pieces of text multiple times. As your students become more familiar with the text, they will begin to analyze the content and author’s purpose through text-based questions and discussion. This reading activity gained...
