Literacy Resources

The link below is a Parent's Guide to Early Literacy Support. This 16 minute video is a must see!


The best way to become a better reader is to practice each day, with books you choose, on your just-right reading level. So, during Reading Workshop in our classroom, students have time each day to practice, practice, practice! Reading Workshop in our classroom consists of the following:

  1. •Interactive read aloud with think aloud
  2. •Several focus mini-lessons that teach comprehension skills, fluency, accuracy, or vocabulary
  3. •Small group reading instruction and individual reading conferences
  4. •Independent literacy tasks (Daily 5 Choices)

Letterland

What is Letterland?

Letterland is a unique, phonics-based approach to teaching reading, writing and spelling to 3-8 year olds. The Letterland characters transform plain black letter shapes into child-friendly pictograms and they all live in an imaginary place called Letterland.

Simple stories about the Letterland characters, explain the full range of dry phonics facts so that children are motivated to listen, to think and to learn. These stories explain letter sounds & shapes, allowing children to progress quickly to word building, reading and writing.

For more information from the publisher you can visit http://www.letterland.com/ .