Heidi Songs

Incorporating music to teach is something I use at every opportunity possible, even when I am teaching in the upper grades.  I felt like I hit a wall when I conducted a weekly monitor progress assessment and realized my first graders were not retaining their sight words consistently.  I wanted to recycle everything I had been doing.  I freaked out!  As we follow the Common Core my First Graders were supposed to come to me with a handful of sight words already mastered, right?!?  Wrong!?!

I collaborated with my First Grade team, the real experts, who were also experiencing the same frustrations.  We talked about a website to check out.  It was www.HeidiSongs.com. 

I checked out some samples she had on YouTube and then made the purchase online.  A month after using the sight word songs and reproducibles in my class, I realize it has been worth every penny.  The songs are fabulous and the reproducibles double as a handwriting practice.  I highly recommend the sight word series since they help forge through the Common Core for First Grade. 

Family of Educators Blog has no affiliation with the website or distribution of materials.  We are simply giving credit where credit is due and sharing a fabulous resource.

Word Family /ox/

This is a very simple CVC word family using words - ox, fox, box, pox.  I left out out sox as in "Red Sox" to not confuse young readers.  It's a six page document with a cut and paste activity, word search, spin game, and Elkin boxes, and modeling sentence writing and more.  Click here to access a copy to use for individual, small group or whole class intruction.

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