Phonics instruction started out as something I found very difficult to teach. I thought it was dry, to simple, and often forgotten right after it was taught. I noticed I was teaching these skills in isolation and I needed to infuse it into everyday routines. I wanted students to be immersed in phonics and see […]

Learning vocabulary in second grade is always so much fun.  We start our lesson with a set of pictures.  We know that it deals with the word but not what the word is yet.  As a class we talk about what we see, how the pictures are the same and how they are different.  We […]