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Should I be teaching Syllable Types?

Should I be teaching Syllable Types?

February 28, 2021

Syllable Types. What are they? How do I teach them? The most important thing is to know why teaching syllable types matters. In other words, why should I spend time teaching this skill? Here’s your answer: a child will remember word patterns and his decoding skills will improve once he can successfully break words into syllable types. What does this… Read More

Filed Under: Boom Cards, Digital Resources, Elementary Education, Language Arts Tagged With: 1st grade, 2nd grade, Boom Cards, digital task cards, multi syllable words, phonics games, reading skills, Syllable Division, syllable types, teaching syllable types

Make Distance Learning a Success

Make Distance Learning a Success

April 26, 2020

You may already be using Google Classroom for distance learning, but what about a digital resource called Boom Cards? You can easily make distance learning a success and your life easier at the same time!  Boom Cards are digital task cards in an educational game format. Along with being no prep for teachers and self-checking, they are also FUN for students because they… Read More

Filed Under: Boom Cards, Digital Resources, Elementary Education, Google Classroom Tagged With: Boom Cards, Boom Learning, Google Apps, Google Classroom, Google Slides

8 Reasons to Use Boom Cards with Students

8 Reasons to Use Boom Cards with Students

August 18, 2019

If you use task cards in your classroom, you will LOVE digital task cards, specifically, Boom Cards!  Digital, self-checking task cards are my favorite way to differentiate learning and engage learners. These are the top 8 reasons I’m a fan (in no particular order): 1) DIGITAL  No printing, laminating, and cutting out sets of paper task cards. Less prep = more… Read More

Filed Under: Boom Cards, Digital Resources, Elementary Education, Google Classroom Tagged With: 2nd grade, 3rd grade, Boom Cards, digital task cards, elementary, reading

12 Ways to Help Striving Readers

12 Ways to Help Striving Readers

July 6, 2019

So, you have some kiddos that read effortlessly and a couple that just can’t “take off”. What to do? In this post, I’ve listed 12 steps to help striving (struggling) readers make progress. Read on. First of all, you have to figure out what your student already knows and doesn’t know in order to determine what to teach next. I’m a reading… Read More

Filed Under: Boom Cards, Elementary Education, Language Arts, Reading Tagged With: Boom Cards, multi sensory, phonics, reading, sight words, striving readers, struggling reader, word work

Teach Phonemic Awareness With No Teacher Tears

Teach Phonemic Awareness With No Teacher Tears

July 2, 2019

What is Phonemic Awareness? You may have heard that phonemic awareness is an essential building block for reading, but aren’t sure why. Phonemic awareness is the ability to hear, identify, and manipulate phonemes (the smallest units of spoken language).  It is the primary predictor of early reading and spelling skills in kindergarten through 2nd grade. Students who lack phonemic awareness… Read More

Filed Under: Boom Cards, Digital Resources, Elementary Education, Language Arts Tagged With: early reading, kindergarten, listening games, phoneme manipulation, phoneme segmenting, phonemic awareness, reading, reading intervention

Boom Cards Digital Resources are Easy to Master

Boom Cards Digital Resources are Easy to Master

June 27, 2019

You may have already jumped on the digital resources bandwagon and used Google Classroom? Maybe you’ve also heard of a digital resource called Boom Cards?  Well, Boom Cards are digital task cards in an educational game format. Along with being no prep for teachers and self-checking, they are also FUN for students because they don’t realize they are learning. How… Read More

Filed Under: Boom Cards, Digital Resources, Elementary Education, Language Arts, Reading Tagged With: 1st grade, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, Boom Cards, Digital Resources, digital task cards, elementary, phonics games, reading skills

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