Word Sort activities are a powerful classroom tool that help students better understand the relationships between words and build vocabulary skills! Perhaps no other classroom activity is more effective in teaching emerging literacy students than using word sorts to emphasize students’ grasp of the meaning and relationships of words. An alternative to more traditional phonics and whole-word [...]  » Read more

Developed in 1948 by Edward William Dolch, Ph.D, the Dolch high frequency word list has held up amazingly well in teaching beginning reading. While you can find the Dolch words in various books, learning activity tutorials, early literacy lesson plans, flash cards, word puzzles and other forms, we have published the complete list below for your [...]  » Read more

You can find numerous uses in your classroom for pocket charts! In today’s fast-paced, elementary school classroom environment, teachers need every advantage possible to help kids get a head start with their reading skills, and in writing, math and other subjects. Pocket charts provide one the most tested and proven classroom tools available. A pocket chart provides [...]  » Read more

The Desktop Pocket Chart Rime Cards are designed to help teachers model the concepts of onsets, rimes and chunks within words for small groups of students. What are onset and rime? An onset is the beginning consonant element in a syllable, before the vowel. A rime is the vowel and any following consonants within a syllable. Breaking [...]  » Read more

Literacy experts often define reading comprehension as the ability to perceive and understand ideas communicated by the written word. Sounds simple enough, right? After all, it stands to reason that once a child develops an acceptable level of alphabet knowledge and phonemic awareness, he or she should be able to sound out the words and then [...]  » Read more

As a teacher, getting your students excited about grammar is likely to be one of the bigger challenges you will face. This is, in part, because it has developed an awful (if not undeserved) reputation over the years for being tedious and boring. But despite our preconceived notions on the subject, we all know that grammar [...]  » Read more

Designed by Linda Dorn, Carla Soffos, and Teresa Treat, Literacy Task Cards are a set of literacy activities that guide student’s attention to the print-sound code. After you demonstrate a few tasks for your class or small group, your students use the cards in independent work at literacy corners. The task cards are described in detail [...]  » Read more

Welcome to Teacher’s Corner, where you will find hundreds of ideas and articles designed to help teachers from the preschool to grade level 6 range. You will discover new teaching methods, tools and informative guides in this free resource provided by Teaching Resource Center.  » Read more