Junie B. Jones is a popular character among primary grade students!  Junie B. books make great read alouds.  If you need a way for your s...

Do you have ELA standards to teach??  If so, we have a Print a Standard for that!   Our Print a Standard packs simplify your tea...

Simplify your classroom centers with our 'Bag Centers'! Read on to see how you can create easy to manage and easy to implement ...

We've got an idea for Fast Finishers that is easy for you to prep and engaging for kiddos!  Come find out about our Print + Play Ma...

We've made it easy for emergent readers to practice using techniques to find and use evidence from texts!

We are excited to start a new blog series called Reader Ready: Standard by Standard.  In this series, we will look at each RL sta...

Engage your readers!  Come learn more about the many 'tools' we have to help kiddos be Good Readers!  Have your readers start the...

Summarizing is a difficult skill for primary readers.  Often we find that students want to tell you all the details of the whole book, or...

Have fun comparing Fiction and Nonfiction texts in the classroom with these easy to prepare ideas!

We're sharing how we set up for Daily 5 rotations!  Come check out our pictures and grab FREE resources!

Character Traits are a favorite unit of ours; one reason is there are SO MANY good books and strong characters to choose from! Come find...

Helping kiddos identify the central message or lesson of a story is a tricky skill,  Here's how we practice through LOTS of ...

One of our favorite ELA units is Story Elements.   Teaching students story elements is key to being able to retell a story independ...

Our favorite mini unit is Habits of Good Readers!  We do these lessons the first week of school and it's our chance ...

We've gathered up all of the FREE reading response sheets we've created and put them HERE!  They can be paired with any bo...

This year I (Tamra) made a switch to from classroom teacher (1st grade) to Literacy Intervention Teacher.   I work with 4-6 students ...

We finished up posting all of our Literacy Bags To-Go!  These packs are great companions to our Original Literacy Bags or for qu...