Miss DeCarbo's Resources

This board is a collection of my primary literacy activities, printable resources, elementary units, printable elementary activities, and curriculum products by Miss DeCarbo.
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Organization Idea for Reading Coaches and Small Group Reading
I’m heading into Friday with a bunch of small reading groups planned and prepped for coaching and lesson modeling sessions next week!! 👏 Click over to get a closer look at my manipulative bins, and if you're a teacher or a literacy coach, follow me for more tips and evidence-based literacy resources for the primary grades.
It’s the beginning of the year. If you haven’t practiced the same routine over and over and over and over and over again until you think, “We can’t possibly practice this one more time,” then you’re doing it wrong. 😂🤷🏻‍♀️🙃 #literacycoach #backtoschool Humour, Back To School, Back To School Humor, School Humor, The Beginning, You Think, The Year, Humor
A little back to school humor...
It’s the beginning of the year. If you haven’t practiced the same routine over and over and over and over and over again until you think, “We can’t possibly practice this one more time,” then you’re doing it wrong. 😂🤷🏻‍♀️🙃 #literacycoach #backtoschool
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No Prep Kindness Resource for Primary Grades
Meet Ella. 🩷 A vibrant, beautiful 12-year-old girl whom I had the honor of teaching when she was a student in my first grade classroom. In August, Ella was diagnosed with High Risk Neuroblastoma and has been undergoing chemotherapy treatments as she starts to fight this horrible disease. This no-prep kindness resource was created to help support Ella and her family, as they embark on a long journey to healing and treatment. Use this for morning meetings, SEL lessons, and more!
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Free Primary Literacy Activity
Grab a FREE Bookmark Buddy to use with a read-aloud this year! These comprehension bookmark buddies are a perfect no-prep follow-up activity, library story-time activity, sub plan lesson, and more!
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The Importance of Rich Content in Reading Instruction
Our students can’t travel the world or go back in time. They can’t sit and chat with historic people or take a field trip to Mount Everest. But we can take them there in our lessons, in our read-alouds, and in our robust class discussions. We must understand that our children are capable of rich vocabulary and knowledge - IF we prioritize it in the classroom and explicitly immerse and engage them in content. ❤
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Independent Brain Bins for the Primary Literacy Classroom
4 by 6 photo boxes are an excellent way to store independent brain bins! Learn about independent brain bins and how I use them in my classroom in this blog post!
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Fluency Friends Primary Literacy Activity
FLUENCY FRIENDS👯 Adding this engaging and motivating rereading routine to your schedule is easy and effective for fluency practice! Your students will love the consistency and confidence they gain, and you’ll love all of the additional reading repetition and practice they’ll get!
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Activities for the First Week of School in the Primary Grades
What’s the one lesson I will always, always recommend for the first day of school?! ✨ MAGIC DOUGH ✨ with my magical, coordinating lab report to go with it! This lesson, with directions, lab report, and recipe, is included in my best-selling Back to School First Week Fun pack in my TPT shop and on my website! It comes with a TON of activities, tools, resources, games, math, literacy, and SEL read- aloud lessons so that you’re all set for the first few weeks!
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Mini Decodable Texts for Primary Readers
Focused on phonics but would love to have more decodable books to send home and practice in the classroom?! These Phonics-Focused Mini Books are exactly what you’ve been needing! There’s a one-page, one-sided foldable book for over 50 phonics skills. With a word list, sentence list, and short passage, they are perfect for moving from the word level to connected text!
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3 easy ways to practice reading fluency with decodable books - Miss DeCarbo
Practice reading fluency with phonics decodable mini books! This post shares three ways to use decodable books in your primary literacy classroom.
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Summer Organization Tips for Teachers
5 Mistakes to Avoid During Summer Break: FREE Teacher Reflection Sheet to figure out what you really need for your classroom next school year. Christina shares how to map out your goals for organization, instruction, content, and classroom management. #teacherorganization
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End of Year Primary Fluency Activities - No Prep!
It’s okay to admit that you’re exhausted this month, and that you might just need a “just print” resource to help you through it! This little May Just Print Fluency pack has fun end-of-year themes, and it’s packed with partner plays, phonics word spinners, passages, and poems! Your kids will love it, and you’ll love that it’s literally no-prep!
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Teacher Quotes from Miss DeCarbo
Surround yourself with people who consistently believe in you, lift others up, and talk about ideas and visions instead of people. The conversation is different. - MISS DECARBO