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Spelling Activity

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My students love spelling on the magnetic white board with the foam letters.  They know that the blue letters are consonants and the red letters are vowels and the purple “y” can be a consonant or a vowel.  I wanted to create a book buddy spelling activity on the Chromebooks that used letters that looked like our magnetic letters the kids use.  You can find this activity in my TPT store at the following link: Let's Spell: Building Words with Letters Enjoy! Kemble :-)

Updated Book Buddy Package

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I am currently going through my TPT products and seeing which ones I can update using Google Suite for Education.  I came across my Book Buddy package and was actually excited to update this one.  I took all the assessments sheets in this package and put them into Google Forms and some Google Slides. I'm excited to create a Google Classroom this upcoming year for my Book Buddies and have the older students use these forms with my little primaries.   You can find my Book Buddy Package in my TPT store at the following link: Book Buddy Package Enjoy! Kemble :-)

Elkonin Boxes App

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Hi everyone, I am really excited to say I have created a second app for Android.   Elkonin Boxes is an app that can be used to help students build phonological awareness by segmenting words into phonemes.  Elkonin boxes help students increase their reading skills by challenging students to segment words into their individual sounds and syllables.  This app is perfect for a small guided reading group or one-on-one instruction with students.  How it works: The teacher picks a Set and selects the “Picture” button to show the first image.  The teacher or the student can press the “Word” button to listen to the word that goes with the image.  If the student needs to hear the word more than once, the student can press the “Word” button again.  The student pushes the counters into the elkonin boxes as they repeat the word and say each phoneme in the word.  2-phonemes Set 1 This set contains 13 pictures that are segmented into 2-phonemes.  The pictures in th