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Word Building with Sticky Notes!

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Have you heard the news? We've Moved to  HeidiSongs.tv ! Our new website features an online video streaming service, updated blog posts at  Heidisongs.blog , and a wealth of fresh resources designed to make learning even more fun and engaging. You can also continue shopping for our educational products there and at our  Teachers Pay Teachers store ! Head over to  HeidiSongs.tv  now and explore all the exciting new features.  See you there! __________________________________________________________________________ In this post, I am excited to tell you about a new idea I have been trying recently:  word building with sticky notes!  Did you know that you can print right on sticky notes with most printers?  I was able to print the entire alphabet and all of the Sounds Fun digraphs and vowel pairs on the tiny sticky notes fairly easily.  Sticky notes are much cheaper than purchasing magnetic letters and trays, too, which would be the l...
   

Eight Great Ways to Teach Long Vowel Words

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Have you heard the news? We've Moved to  HeidiSongs.tv ! Our new website features an online video streaming service, updated blog posts at  Heidisongs.blog , and a wealth of fresh resources designed to make learning even more fun and engaging. You can also continue shopping for our educational products there and at our  Teachers Pay Teachers store ! Head over to  HeidiSongs.tv  now and explore all the exciting new features.  See you there! __________________________________________________________________________ In this post, I am going to tell you eight great ways to teach kids to read words with long vowel sounds!  I have been working hard at this with the intervention kids this year in my second grade class, and we have really been enjoying some of these activities!  The great thing is that the techniques are not only fun, but very effective as well! It does feel a little bit strange to know that I have done m...
   

File Folder CVC and Sight Word Puzzles!

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Have you heard the news? We've Moved to  HeidiSongs.tv ! Our new website features an online video streaming service, updated blog posts at  Heidisongs.blog , and a wealth of fresh resources designed to make learning even more fun and engaging. You can also continue shopping for our educational products there and at our  Teachers Pay Teachers store ! Head over to  HeidiSongs.tv  now and explore all the exciting new features.  See you there! __________________________________________________________________________ Today I am going to tell you about a resource that I am really excited about:  CVC File Folder Puzzles!   These have actually been for sale on our website for a while, but I haven’t really blogged about them much. I am mentioning them now, because summer is a GREAT time to put these together and get them ready for next year, along with the Sight Word Spelling Puzzles as well!  I use both of them in my classroom regu...
   

Sounding Out and Making New Words with the New Sounds Fun Word Building Kit!

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Have you heard the news? We've Moved to  HeidiSongs.tv ! Our new website features an online video streaming service, updated blog posts at  Heidisongs.blog , and a wealth of fresh resources designed to make learning even more fun and engaging. You can also continue shopping for our educational products there and at our  Teachers Pay Teachers store ! Head over to  HeidiSongs.tv  now and explore all the exciting new features.  See you there! __________________________________________________________________________   A child uses the Sounds Fun Word Building Kit to make a word and write it. I've been waiting a long time for this kit, and I am super excited to be able to share it with you now!  I put this project on my wonderful husbands (very long) "to do list" a few months ago, and it finally made its way to the top of the list.  So I now finally have my wonderful Sounds Fun Word Building Kit!   I'm only sorry that there is ...