Today is Day 5 of our 30 Days of Reading Fun for Beginning Readers series. On Thursdays during this series we will be focusing on phonics (one of the five elements of well-balanced reading instruction). Whereas phonemic awareness…
It’s Day 4 of our 30 Days of Reading Fun for Beginning Readers series. On Wednesdays during this series we will be focusing on sight words and/or vocabulary. This Sight Word Fishing activity is super fun and extremely versatile….
It’s Day 3 of our 30 Days of Reading Fun for Beginning Readers series! Since it is a Tuesday, we are focusing on phonemic awareness activities. As I have previously mentioned, “Phonemic Awareness” consists of hearing the individual sounds,…
Helping a child connect with a book is one of the most important things we can do as we are teaching him/her to read. This focus is often overlooked in our plight to teach children to read by decoding…
It’s Day 1 of our 30 Days of Reading Fun for Beginning Readers series…and it is also a holiday weekend, so we are having a little fun with this first activity. This Pushpin Letters activity is great for promoting…
Join us for 30 Days of Reading Fun for Beginning Readers!  This series is perfect for children who are ready to begin learning to read! One of my very favorite things in the world is teaching children to read! As…
Teaching sight words is one component of well-balanced literacy instruction. For many decades, we see a constant swing back in forth in the primary methods for reading instruction. On one end of the pendulum, we taught phonics as the…
This post is sponsored by Audible. All opinions are 100% mine. Audible Books For Kids My husband has been a huge fan of Audible for some time now. He drives a lot for his job, so he will often listen…
First published May 2011. Updated 2019. I’ll be honest. I was never a huge fan of wordless picture books as a teacher and I’m not really sure why. Perhaps it was because I was too concerned with the “nuts…
Little Sister (almost 5 years old) has shown a sudden interest in all things letters and sounds lately (which gives me great relief as she is by far the latest one of my children to show this interest). We…
Sight words are the most common words children will encounter when learning to read and often do not follow phonics rules (you can find some of the most common sight words, also known as “high-frequency words” here). Because of this,…
Teaching your child to read can be one of the most rewarding experiences of your life! Â Here we share 10 tips on how to teach a child to read, from pre-readers all the way to school-age children! When Do Kids…
Roll and Read Sight Words Learning to recognize sight words (also known as high-frequency words) is one of several components of teaching a child to read (learn about the rest of them here). When a child automatically recognizes a sight…
Sight Words are an important component to a balanced approach to literacy. Learning to recognize sight words (the most commonly used words in print) helps children to become more fluent readers. These sight word activities for kids help make the…
Fun Word Family Game What Are Word Families? Teaching children word families is a phonemic awareness technique that helps children see patterns in reading. This is an important language development skill because it allows children to begin “reading” by grouping…
Little Sister has been super excited about doing activities lately. Maybe it is because we did so many pumpkin activities for our 31 Days of Pumpkin Activities series that she is having withdrawals or maybe it is because she…
*This is a sponsored post written on behalf of Ivy Kids. All opinions are 100% mine. If you have been hanging around here for any amount of time, you have probably heard me profess my love for Ivy…
Big Brother typically watches 30-45 minutes of TV each day, sometimes a little more and sometimes none at all. It is a convenient distraction when I am trying to get ready in the morning or prepare dinner in the afternoons…
