"Dear Deer... Love, Aunt Ant"

This week we are working with "eer, ear, & ere," words. Naturally, this drew our attention to fun homophones such as deer/dear, and hear/here. We also have started our lesson on coins so cent/scent was another fun pair (/pear) to talk about!

Dear Deer by: Gene Barretta is a cute story that includes many creative homophones. Be prepared to help do some explaining to your students -they are very funny but some of them get a bit confusing! 

I also found some great FREEBIES to use along with our homophones lessons this week. Here they are for your students' enjoyment:

Cut, Glue, and Match Homophones with this 

Homophones Activity Recording Sheet 

By: Sandra @ Sweet Times in First

This next find is a packet of activities 

which fit perfectly with our "ea" and "ee" 

spelling words this week

Homophones - The perfect match - 

ee and ea patterns. 

By: Mrs. Foxwell @ Foxwell Forest

The students also really enjoyed the game & follow-up activities found in

Homophone Activities 

By: Leigh @ The Applicious Teacher

Literacy Madness!

After HOURS of thought and dedication, it's finally done! 

 

My first major classroom product is completed. 47 pages of 2nd Grade Common Core Aligned Literacy Centers! 

Included in this packet are also 20 Reader's Response Worksheets, which I decided to sell separately as well.

Check them out in my TpT store! 

 

The Daily 5 Ideas

Today, most elementary teachers are familiar with The Daily 5 and The Daily Cafe by Gail Boushey and Joan Moser.​ Additionally, there are what seem to be endless resources and creative ideas for implementing these core literacy tasks into your classroom life. Well, in support of The 2 Sisters I'm here to give you some easy to implement ideas. 

           

My suggestion as simple as reading online! Your students will love it -after all, isn't that what you're doing in your very own free time right this minute? 

With very little planning time needed you can have students completely engaged in reading online! When you visit Owl Ready to Learn (topic: books), students will see several pages they can visit for online reading. Give them freedom or choose the stories you want them to read, it's really up to you! The point is, you can easily make these books part of your "listening" or "read-to-self" centers. You also could partner students up and make it a "buddy reading" activity. All you need to get started is the link above, a couple of classroom computers/iPads, and headphones (optional). 

You also could try using some of the great phonics/spelling sites, such as Starfall, to practice "word work." 

Or, sign-up for a classroom membership and have the students publish their work on sites like Kidblogs and Storybird as part of your "writing center." 

The possibilities are endless and I'm sure I won't be able to resist sharing more of these ideas with you later! In the meantime, I hope this gives you some new inspiration for planning future classroom centers!