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Creating Sight Word Books One of the best ways to teach children to read is, of course, to have them read. When they are in the very early stages of reading, there are not that many books out there that … Continue reading
Creating Sight Word Books One of the best ways to teach children to read is, of course, to have them read. When they are in the very early stages of reading, there are not that many books out there that … Continue reading
Short Vowel Flip Book This is one of my very favorite short vowel activities. I will preface that by saying I did NOT invent this idea. You will find it all over the web in variety of forms and formats. … Continue reading
A Beginning with Short Vowels So I am sure you have all read our post, Teacher Mama: A Phonics Primer, and are eady for some concrete, hands-on activities that you can do with your child at home. So here we … Continue reading
A Phonics Primer I have had a few people ask me for some good activities for working on phonics skills with their child. This, as you may know, is a HUGE topic with tons and tons of information available both … Continue reading
I have been reading A LOT of the literature out there about what boys like to read. Instead of posting a bunch of articles about the topic, I thought I would make things easy and create a brief summary of what boys like to read and share it with you all. Let me know what you think!
First, did you know that a lot of boys are having trouble reading? (From Michael W. Smith and Jeffrey D. Wilhelm in Reading Don’t Fix No Chevys: Literacty in the Loves of Young Men (Heinemann, 2002))
So, what do boys want to read?
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30 Things to Do With Your Giant Die So now that you have created your giant die from a paper carton, here are 30 things you can use it for. Since the die is covered with contact paper, you can … Continue reading
How to Make a Giant Die from a Paper Carton We recently finished this carton of Goldfish Crackers and I just couldn’t bear the thought of throwing the empty container in the trash. It was just begging to be made … Continue reading
Sight Word Practice Made Fun My son is in Kindergarten and is learning to read. One of the tasks asked of parents is to practice a list of sight words (provided by the teacher) at home. I wanted to find … Continue reading
Spaceman (for Writing) When my son writes, he writes! He writes everything in one long word. You can still read it and tell there are a few different words in there, but they are all connected. I decided that tonight … Continue reading
Creating Your Own Dice for Learning In a previous post I introduced some math games involving the use of dice. As I stated then, the possibilities for learning with dice are endless, but not everyone wants to go out and … Continue reading
Reversals in Handwriting: Should I Worry? As a parent of young children, how often have you seen something like this? Your child sits down to write something and one or more of the letters she has written is backwards? Many, … Continue reading
Guys Read and Jon Scieszka As a parent of boys this site is a must. Guysread.com is a web based literacy program for boys developed by Jon Scieszka (author of The Stinky Cheeseman, The Time Warp Trio series and the … Continue reading