My first year as a reading interventionist went by so fast. It felt like one minute I was learning my students’ names and setting goals with them, and the next we were getting ready to wrap up the school year. One of my favorite parts of the year was watching students realize how much they had grown as readers. Some made big gains in decoding and fluency, while others became more confident or started enjoying reading more than they had before. As we got closer to the end of t

Types of sentences are what we always study at the beginning of the year. We begin with making a class anchor chart. It always amazes me how much my students love making anchor charts. My charts are nothing much to look at but they get the job done. We used Brach’s candy corn, Red Hots, Smarties, and Tic Tacs to create our punctuation marks since I have a student with a peanut allergy this school year. You can also use the licorice pull n’ peel as a question mark, but I did