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Teaching Kids to Read Through Play

November 5, 2019 by Sarah Leave a Comment

As a teacher, one of the things I get asked the MOST about is teaching kids to read. For some children it comes so quick and naturally. And for others … it doesn’t. So this post is for the Mama of one of those “others” (and I say that in a kidding and kind way…

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Filed Under: Grade School, Learn, Letters and Numbers Tagged With: homeschool, learn to read, reading

Learn to read by using word families! #reading #alphabet #preschool #kindergarten #oakmeadow

Learning to Read with Word Families

September 26, 2018 by Sarah Leave a Comment

I am excited to partner with Oak Meadow today to bring you this post all about helping children learn to read! I have been fascinated with how children learn to read for a very long time. My daughter learned to read lickety split without me truly ‘teaching’ her. I have worked with hundreds of students…

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Filed Under: Kindergarten, Letters and Numbers Tagged With: homeschool, learn to read, learning, oak meadow, phonics, word families

Using the power of the internet to engage learners world wide! Study.com is such a neat company. #sponsored #technology #teacher #teaching #children #education

Calming Technology

April 28, 2017 by Sarah Leave a Comment

I am excited to partner with Hale’s Tale today to bring you this post on calming technology. I have been a Mama now for 15 years and can say that it feels as though parenting my oldest as a preschooler happened in a completely different world than I am parenting in now. We did not…

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Filed Under: All Ages, Kindergarten, Letters and Numbers Tagged With: learn to read

These are fabulous and fun rhyming activities for kids. Rhyming is so important for preschoolers - love these great hands on ways to practice this pre-reading skill.

The BEST Rhyming Activities for Kids

April 26, 2017 by Sarah Leave a Comment

Goodness! The beautiful weather is here! We have sunny skies and birds singing and (dare I say it) I think we are done with the snow. Well, I do tend to say that every April and Mother Nature often drops a bucket full of snow right on my veggie garden early May. But this year…

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Filed Under: All Ages, Learn, Letters and Numbers, Letters and Reading, Preschooler, Uncategorized Tagged With: learn to read, preschool activity, rhyming

a fun game for preschoolers to help them learn syllables! This is one of the 7 skills kids need before they can read

Count-ing Syl-la-bles through play!

April 10, 2017 by Sarah Leave a Comment

Do you remember how we are working through my Beyond the Alphabet: Play into Reading Readiness eBook? Remember how we are playing with one of the seven phonemic awareness activities each week? Remember how I forgot to share one with you last week? Whoops. Sorry friends. Lofty goals I have!! I just really needed to…

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Filed Under: All Ages, Kindergarten, Kindergarteners, Learn, Letters and Numbers, Letters and Reading, Preschoolers, Toddlers Tagged With: learn to read, phonological awareness, teaching kids to read, teaching phonics

Rhyming activities for kids can be so much fun and a great way to build strong literacy skills. Rhyming is one of the phonological awareness skills children need before they can read.

Rhyming is fun and easy! Except when it’s not …

March 21, 2017 by Sarah Leave a Comment

Does it make me geeky to admit that I love rhyming activities? I do. And at a recent family gathering, a certain sister brought to my attention that I was, in fact, quite geeky. I truly had no idea. Isn’t that funny? I have always thought of myself as more natural living and free-spirited. This…

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Filed Under: All Ages, Kindergarteners, Learn, Letters and Numbers, Letters and Reading, Preschooler, Preschoolers, Toddlers Tagged With: learn to read, phonological awareness, rhyming activities, teaching phonics

Play this game to get little ones ready to read! A fun activity for preschoolers to practice letter sounds.

S-t-r-e-t-c-h-i-n-g it out to learn to read

March 6, 2017 by Sarah 2 Comments

Learning letters and their sounds get little ones ready to read, right? Wrong!!! (Well, that was rather abrasive and negative. I’m sorry. Please see it as passion and not negativity) Letters and sounds, letters and sounds, letters and sounds. You could find thousands of activities to practice these skills with your little ones on this…

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Filed Under: Activities for Big Kids, All Ages, Grade School, Kindergarten, Kindergarteners, Learn, Letters and Numbers, Letters and Reading, Literacy, Preschooler, Preschoolers Tagged With: get ready to read, learn to read, preschool literacy activity, reading readiness

Go on a scavenger hunt to find letters that start with a specific sound! Such a great way to teach preschoolers letters and reading readiness

Get ready – it’s almost here!

January 23, 2017 by Sarah Leave a Comment

I am over the moon excited! For the past 18 months I have been working on a labor of love and it is just about finished. One more careful edit and it will be done. Done! I have to say, and I hope I do not sound as though I am gloating, it turned out…

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Filed Under: Activities for Preschoolers, All Ages, Kindergarten, Kindergarteners, Learn, Letters and Numbers, Letters and Reading, Literacy, Preschooler, Preschoolers Tagged With: learn to read, learning letters, literacy activities, reading readiness

These are AWESOME name activities for preschoolers!

45 Awesome Name Activities for Preschoolers!

January 11, 2016 by Sarah Leave a Comment

If there is one thing I know from the past 5 years of my life, it is name activities for preschoolers! In the classroom and in my home, learning names has been front and center. When children start learning letters, the very best place to start is with their names. After that, I like to…

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Filed Under: Activities for Preschoolers, All Ages, Kindergarten, Learn, Letters and Numbers, Letters and Reading, Literacy, Loads of Ideas!, Preschooler, Preschoolers Tagged With: learn to read, name activities

Learn to read Quiet Bins!

“Learn to Read” Quiet Bins

September 28, 2015 by Sarah 3 Comments

Well – did you see the Super Blood Moon last night? We did – and it was awesome. And today we are celebrating little Ben’s third birthday! Good grief with all this excitement I can barely sit still to get this post out to you … but I really want to, so I will. Exciting…

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Filed Under: Activities for Big Kids, All Ages, Grade School, Kindergarten, Literacy, Loads of Ideas!, Quiet Time Tagged With: learn to read, quiet bins

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