HeidiSongs Teaching Resource

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! __________________________________________________________________________ Do you have students that look at the first letter in a word and then guess at the rest?  In this post, I am going to share with you nine different ways to help children that continually GUESS at words rather than decode them!  I have been working with a couple of sweet children in my class this year that have been struggling with this very problem, and a number of my strategies have really been working, so I am excited to shar...

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! __________________________________________________________________________ Our animated Word Family Songs Video collection  is designed to help kids learn to read CVC (consonant-vowel-consonant) words! These active, catchy songs are the perfect way to help kindergarten , pre-k , or first grade kids learn to read word families , learn decoding strategies , blending sounds , rhyming words , phonics , phonemic awareness , and so much more!   If you need to help kids learn to read , this is perfect for you...

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! __________________________________________________________________________ Most children are taught to read in Kindergarten these days, and this is now a fact that is a big surprise to many parents, who have fond memories of blocks, painting, stories, play dough, and play time from their own experiences in Kindergarten!  Personally, I distinctly remember singing (what else, LOL!) in Kindergarten, my lovely teacher's name (Mrs. Brazil!), playing on the playground, and little else.  But the reality is that ...

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! __________________________________________________________________________ Do you teach first grade?  Here is a round-up of my favorite literacy center ideas for those Fabulous Firsties!  Many of these will also work for advanced Kindergartners, too, of course!  And if you haven't heard the news, well, it's TRUE!  I'll be teaching a first/second grade combination class next year!  My mind has been whirling with ways to adapt these ideas to the concepts taught in second grade as wel...

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! __________________________________________________________________________ Here is a review of the very best paid and free emergent readers and emergent reading book sets that I used in my Kindergarten classroom to teach reading for many years!  I have also included an explanation of why I used and valued each set of books. It's important to note that I used these book sets in combination with each other, rather than just one single set.  I also mixed in other single books that I got in various pl...