Put letters or sight words  in various places on the sidewalk with chalk  in the recess area. This lesson allows for differentiation among reading levels.  You may also make laminate cards to use. Have students move quickly to the section of the sidewalk in which the letter you give them appears. Every child should have their own letter to find. 

This video is part of the Learn and Grow with WHRO TV series. Watch Mrs. Diehl teach about the -ad and -ag word families.

This video is part of the Learn and Grow with WHRO TV series. Watch Kelly Diehl teach about -at and -am word families using the poem, "Sam the Cat."

This video is part of the Learn and Grow with WHRO TV series. Watch Carolyn Harris teach about the -op , -ot, -og word families.

To actively engage students in recognizing common errors in writing such as capitalization, punctuation, sentence structure, and spelling.

This video is part of the Learn and Grow with WHRO TV series. Watch Kelly Diehl teach about the short /i/ word families -ig and -ip.

Multi-sensory Explicit Phonics for Tier 3 Reading Invention provides a fully scripted reading program, assessment tools, scope and sequence, teacher and student instructional materials and embedded professional learning through an overview and modeling, all in one. It is based in Orton-Gillingham and Direct Instruction methodologies and contains additional components of phonological awareness (Heggerty) and visualization during phoneme-grapheme mapping and connecting concepts to semantic networks.

This video is part of the Learn and Grow with WHRO TV series. Watch Carolyn Harris teach about friendship and retelling stories.

This video is part of the Learn and Grow with WHRO TV series. Watch Kelly Diehl teach about the short /e/ word families through poetry, pictures, and writing.

This video is part of the Learn and Grow with WHRO TV series. Watch Carolyn Harris teach about the -an and -ap word families.