Reading+Toolbox

Reading Toolbox

Wikkisticks: little wax sticks that students can make letters out of Word Monster: Monster with a rectangle cut out of it to find words Word Swatters: fly swatters with a rectangle cut out, used to swat the beginning of a word, a word used twice in the room, etc. Sound bingo

Wilson boards: teachers coded the letters so you know which boards they go with.
 * Children would take off any suffixes first, and work with the base word.
 * Welded or glued sounds: when it comes to rimes that have distorted sounds, like 'am' 'an' and 'all' they tap two fingers together; for 'ing' 'ink' 'onk'

Word wall-using pointers to build sentences (hi freq words) Each child had a personal word envelope of sight words and high freq words
 * Guided Reading**: Starts with a mini-lesson: mean Mister E, then whisper reading, with tapping for help with sounding out words and assessing