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This blog by Kari Yates gives teachers lots of advice on how to effectively teach reading, plan reading groups, conferring, how to get kids excited about the books they choose, and more.  She covers many of the same topics from her book, Simple Starts.  Some of her blog posts include how to prompt conversation during reading, how to move students to the next step in their learning process, and how to build and introduce a great classroom library.  She also has book lists, parent tools, anchor charts, pictures of literacy environments in the classroom, etc. This is a great resource for teachers, students, and parents to use for any topic regarding literacy.

simplyinspiredteaching.com

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Simply Inspired Teaching - A blog by Kari Yates

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In this small group guided math lesson, students work to solve story problems. They explore missing numbers in an equation.  The teacher also has the students use manipulatives to help the students count better.

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In this first grade guided reading lesson, the teacher focuses on the learning targets of rereading something to understand a passage and identifying when something is real or make believe.  Throughout this  lesson, the teacher continually asks comprehension questions as well as questions about new characters.

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This is an anchor chart for the writing strategy called COPS (Capitalize, Organize, Punctuate, Spell) which helps remind students how to edit their work. It provides specific things to look for under each category to check after each sentence or paragraph.
http://www.readingrockets.org/content/pdfs/COPSchecklist.pdf

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This is a great comprehension activity that has kids discuss different aspects of a story based on what they roll on a dice.  This would be a good partner game where students could take turns talking about different parts of a story.
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/287597126179337703/

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In this activity, students read a short story and put the puzzle pieces in order of how they happened.  The puzzle pieces only have pictures on them, helping kids connect the words in the story to the pictures.
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/8585055517386299/

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This activity has students put words from a sentence in the correct order.  It helps students start to see patterns in parts of speech.
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/287597126182227261/

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These cards have students practice choosing rhyming pairs.  You can make it into a game or use them individually.  This is a great game for emergent readers.
http://www.themeasuredmom.com/teach-rhyming-words-fun-printable/

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This is a great activity for kids to use to practice with syllables.  On each card, students will decide how many syllables are in each word on the card.  The word is accompanied with a picture so that emergent readers can use it as well.  Students will choose 1, 2, 3, or 4 syllables for each card.
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/258675572324108513/

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In this activity, students figure out secret CVC words by first figuring out the initial sounds of each picture.  Once they figure out the first sound of each picture, they write that letter in the box to help them reveal the secret word!  This helps kids practice with beginning sounds and helps them sound out words.
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/Aceso2LGxBvZVqCHUs1Vr31pfbGBeamPdOVF4lKSqU3X3IBzY_TYBUM/

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This anchor chart provides the same steps as the previous anchor chart, with the addition of images to go along with each step.  This is helpful for emergent writers who still draw pictures with their sentences.  The images help these students to remember to do this.
http://thirdgradetheory.blogspot.com/2012/10/stretch-sentence-weve-been-working-on.html

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This is an activity that helps students create sentences.  Each color card represents a specific category of word.

Red: pronoun
Orange: adjective
Yellow: noun
Green: verb
Blue: preposition
Purple: punctuation mark

Students put the cards in rainbow order, which helps them practice with parts of speech and sentence creation.
http://firstgradefresh.blogspot.com/2012/01/workstation-revamp-silly-sentences.html

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These shape puzzles are very useful in helping students learn to spell because the word appears as the shape appears!  Since each piece has one letter, this activity also helps students practice seeing how many letters are in certain words.  As students get older, you can make different word puzzles using different, more challenging sight words.
http://www.playdoughtoplato.com/shape-puzzles/

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This website is a great online tool for reading games designed for emergent readers.  Organized into sections, students are able to practice skills in a variety of areas such as phonics & phonemes, sight words, vocabulary, and comprehension.  The games are organized into easy-to-follow steps for students, so they can play them independently.  This site also has links for books, book talks, authors, and teachers.

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Readquarium- Online reading activities compiled by Diana Dell, Ed.S.

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Gamequarium Home Gamequarium (3-6+) Gamequarium Junior Readquarium

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This short video is an interactive way for kids to see how to form a sentence.  The video first emphasizes how every sentence starts with a capital (or “big”) letter. Then it talks about the endings of sentences: using a period, exclamation point, or question mark.  The video is helpful in how it has animations to go along with the sentences so kids can better understand when to use each punctuation mark.

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The Sentence Song | English Songs | Scratch Garden

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This video shows a short reading conference with a teacher and a student.  In this video, the teacher asks the student to tell him about her book so far, asks her what strategies she uses while reading to remember so much information, and asks the reader to think about how her strategies could help her in reading other things.  This video is a great look at how conferring can look like in an elementary school classroom.

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Conference with Bella (from Patrick Allen: What Are You Thinking? Conferring in Reader's Workshop)

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The Role of Phonemic Awareness in Learning to Read and Spell Successfully

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The Role of Phonemic Awareness in Learning to Read and Spell Successfully

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This article gives readers a better understanding of how phonemic awareness (PA) works, what it looks like in a classroom, who benefits from it, and different ways to use it in daily instruction.  It also helps readers understand the important differences between phonemic awareness, phonics, and phonological awareness.

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The Role of Phonemic Awareness in Learning to Read and Spell Successfully