I shared earlier this month about the various ways we are using drink carriers to organize school supplies (you can also see our math minute box here).
I LOVE to teach reading, and I’m kind of a geek about supplies; so I made up another organizer for our reading supplies! Here’s what we have in the box:
In this side of the box:
- Sandpaper alphabet cards (or make your own tactile alphabet cards)
- Flash cards with 1000 Instant Words from Dr. Fry
- 3-Letter Word-Making Binder (from a reading class I took in college)
- Sticky Word strips (love these for writing new words and sticking them to the wall for various types of word practice)
- BOB Books (for beginning readers)
- 25 Read & Write Mini-Books That Teach Word Families
- Scissors
- Pencils
Supplies in the other side of the box:
- Reading Chart from My Father’s World curriculum
- Reading Cues chart (from when I was teaching)
- Fry’s Readability Graph (from when I was teaching)
- Glue sticks
- Strips of paper (used for writing and cutting apart words, scrambling the letters, and putting them back together)
- Guided Reading Coaching Tool (from my teaching days)
- Sharpie Accent Retractable Highlighters, Assorted, Fine Point, 8/Pack (great for highlighting letters, writing words/letters to trace, etc.)
- Post-it Arrow Flags (perfect for sticking on pages with unknown words, questions, making connections, etc.)
- Wikki Stix (bend them to circle words)
- Stapler
- Little plastic pointy fingers (I’m not sure where I got these, but they are fun to stick on your fingers and point to certain words or letters)
Feel free to leave comments with your ideas for what to include in the box! I’m always up for learning about and adding new ideas! Also, if you’d like more information to get your toddler or preschooler on the road to reading, check out my hints at Raising a Reader (7 Tips to Teach Your Child to Read).
Terri says
Thanks for sharing! 🙂
Nicole says
Eye eieye! I have a 5 year old that we are homeschooling and reading is the ONE subject that has me freaked out! I have no clue how to teach her and feel like so much depends on her getting it! We start AlphaPhonics next week and are dabbling in Explode The Code. Here’s to hoping she picks it up!
Stacie says
It will happen, Nicole! Don’t stress — since she’s five, there is plenty of time!