This Literacy Life: sound boxes

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Anyone Have a Clue?

I am still here! I have been so busy getting my blog posts ready for next week when I am out of town that I have forgotten about this week! Ugh! I am just excited that Louisiana will have MUCH warmer weather than here! Their lows will be higher than our highs!!!! I am ready for 80 degree weather at last!

Anyway, the other day I was working with my first graders on blending and segmenting words. This was our second day, and I had them write the sounds they heard in their sound boxes. We had been working on the short e sound. I called out the word rest, and this is what I got.

He said all of the sounds correctly, but wrote this instead. Does anyone have any rhyme or reason for this? This student does this a lot, and we are working with him in Tiers II and III interventions. Yet, nothing has really hit home for him.

Are there any suggestions for helping him with hearing and knowing the sounds in words?

Thanks so much!

Needing a Little Spring!

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It's March! Spring was five days ago, and this is what we had on Sunday!

High of 34 degrees!

I am so much more ready for this to come back that we had on Saturday!

High of 60 degrees!

So, I have some spring sound boxes to get me in the spring mood! If you want to read more about them, head on over to my guest post at Lauren's blog, Teacher Mom of 3 to find out more! In case you missed them there, you can grab them here for free!

Now for spring to really arrive! Enjoy these and forget about the snow!

Mardi Gras Fun Freebies!

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Yes, you read that right ~ FREEBIES! I have two freebies for you today! Tuesday is Mardi Gras, and since I am a Louisiana girl, I have worked hard to make a kid friendly unit to tell one of my third grade groups about what I did as a kid for Mardi Gras. No big parties or crazy parades for me, just a lot of innocent fun and tradition!

I have created these fun doubloons sound boxes for you. The file includes some for words with three sounds, words with magic-e, and with four sounds. These are NOT part of my unit, but a freebie, just for those who read and stop by my blog. Enjoy them!

The other freebie is part of my Mardi Gras Fun unit. It is the gameboard that goes with my "Take Me to the Mardi Gras" Main Idea/Details Game. It can be used with anything, so I wanted to share it with you! Enjoy!

If you want to teach about Mardi Gras, which is this Tuesday, February 12th, hop on over to my Teachers Pay Teachers store or my Teachers Notebook shop for your copy! I will update it each year with the correct date, which will always be a free re-download!