Do You Wonder About This Too?

What's the least known letter, least known sound, or least known high frequency word in my class?

I gave my students Fun Foam Letter Stickers to make these cute trees, but each child was given only the letters they did not know.
How did I quickly find the letters
each one of my students did not know?

I used ESGI's "Student Detail" report to quickly see which letters each child knew and didn't know. 

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So, You Know The Letters Your Students Don't Know. Now What?

Try these resources:

Students who needed to identify the letters B and b, located all of the uppercase Bs and lowercase letter bs on this Alphabet Chant page. They traced them with a marker and then they counted how many there were! Thanks to ESGI, I was able to target the specific letters they needed to practice.

My chants can be found by clicking HERE.

After they traced their letters on the Bb page, if they needed to practice the sound of /b/, they illustrated and labeled 3 items that began with the sound of /b/ on their Phonics Dictionary Page.

Students illustrate and label to create an alphabet book.
Click the image to see the set.
They come in color and in B&W.

This set includes 3 labeled images for each letter.I added more images by using graphics from old workbooks or old reading kits. Click the image to see the set of
Dictionary Pages and graphics.

During Small group instruction time, I used individualized RTI targeting specific skills for small groups based on the data I got from ESGI.

I am meeting with TK and K students on the skills
this group is ready for. I got my data from ESGI.

I used ESGI to track my students' skill progress so I was able to create small groups and target the specific skills that group needed. And groups changed according to the needs of individual students. 

And, the individualized data that ESGI created helped me to make quick RTI kits for each student that targeted the specific skills each child needed to practice. (I just used the flashcards generated by ESGI to make little RTI kits.) 

Just place each child's flash cards in a plastic bag.
Volunteers, cross age tutors, & paraprofessionals
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their individualized RTI kit.

I wrote TK tests for ESGI and you can find them by clicking HERE.

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What Do The Other Kids Do While I'm Teaching a Small Group?

 I See This Question All The Time. Here is the Answer:

While I'm teaching a small group of students, the other children are working on their "Table Work*" at their tables. (*Meaningful work they can do Independently.)

Here are some examples:

MONDAY: 

Alpha Chants- Students trace ONLY the letter we are focusing on that day (or week) with a fine-tip marking pen. Then, they glue it to the 6" pocket created by folding a 12"X18" piece of construction paper into a 12"X12" square and stapling the 6" flap at the sides. 

CLICK HERE for the chants.

We use the pocket to make an Alphabet book
that holds all of our other work about this letter. 

You get 2 on a page so you can easily copy a class set. 

TUESDAY:

Pocket-Lockets- We create a pocket watch or a locket with a hidden high frequency word inside. 

This set comes with Dolch Words and blanks to create your own Pocket-Lockets! 

• CLICK HERE for the set. 

The 1st time we did this, ALL of the girls wanted to make the locket & ALL of the boys wanted to make the pocket watch, but after that 1st time, they chose a differently every time!

WEDNESDAY:

One of the activities from this "All About Numbers" Math Set- (It also comes in 2 smaller sets of #s 1-5 and #s 6-10.) 

CLICK HERE for the set.

Once you introduce these activities in a small group,
 they can do them independently at their tables. 

THURSDAY:

ALPHABET PICTURE CARDS & PHONICS PAGES- This set comes with 3 pictures for each sound, but I also put additional pictures from old workbooks or magazines on their tables. Students draw & label 3 pictures. Younger students can cut and paste the graphics included in the set. 

We put the entire page into the pocket we made on Monday. 

CLICK HERE for the set.

FRIDAY:

Rime Time: (Yes, "rime" instead of "rhyme" because we are working on Onset Rimes.) Student create a spinning word wheel with onset rimes by changing the first letter of each word to create a new word. 

CLICK HERE for the set

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