Clever Classroom Blog

Okay, let’s talk guided reading for emergent readers. Reading comprehension and fluency are vital reading competencies for any reader, especially our beginning readers. These leveled reading pointers provide a FUN, hands-on system for your students to grow their fluency. These reading sticks will help children follow and understand the text that they are reading. When I taught kindergarten […]

This post includes the following reading points. Hey-ho! I just love all things literacy and specifically working with words. I want to delve deeper into phonological development, because.. well.. I just love it! I’m a bit of a nerd that way!  Are you too? You know that phonological and phonemic awareness skills are important and also […]

It’s that time of year again! I have edited and updated our last Day of School Picture Posters for the 2015-2016 school year, just for you. I added a new design too! By request, I have also included seventh and eighth grade, plus Head Start, Pre-K and Preschool posters. Many teachers have used the photos […]

I am crazy for Bananagrams! If you haven’t heard of them before, they are much like Scrabble tiles without the numerical value. So many teachers are using these versatile letter tiles in their classrooms as a word work tool. How exciting! Students can use them to build vocabulary words, spelling words or any word list. […]

Hi all, I just love creating sight word resources and I have recently made a cute new set. This one has been a long time coming!  I started it so long ago and thought it was about time that I finished it for you! I am so excited to show you these super fun sight […]