The April Writing Prompts are designed to spark creativity and build foundational writing skills in young learners. [...]

Elapsed time, often defined as the amount of time that passes from the beginning of an event [...]

Teaching addition and subtraction word problems in kindergarten lays a solid foundation for mathematical understanding. Word problems encourage [...]

These reading passages are designed to help young learners master high-frequency words through engaging and repetitive activities that [...]

Alphabet charts and alphabet sounds charts are great reference tools for students to have on hand in kindergarten and first grade. They contain all the alphabet letters and pictures and represent each letter sound and word for each letter.

Elkonin boxes involved segmenting words into individual sounds and proved to be an effective strategy that helps students build phonemic and phonological awareness.

High-frequency words are most commonly used in written English. Some words may be regular (big), and some may be irregular (the).

Blends and digraphs are both essential components of phonics and help students learn to read and spell correctly.

Beginning readers often start learning to read with short vowels. Some short vowels have multiple spelling patterns, while others only have one, such as the Short A sound.

CVC words are great for building fundamental phonics skills. It is much easier for kindergarten students to learn to read CVC words with the same family.

Putting spelling words in alphabetical order is an important skill to master. It helps kids develop organizational skills and improve word study, manipulation, spelling, and memory.

Learn how to integrate multisensory explicit instructions when teaching kindergarten sight words!