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Personalize Bedtime Stories With Tall Tales

Allison McDonald — Sat, 20 May 2023 16:25:30 +0000

This post is in partnership with Tall Tales App. “Mama, tell me a story.” I heard this at bedtime for years. My daughter Molly and I had epic tales about twin princesses and one about a girl who would visit a land of fairies and gnomes with her magic watch and a secret door in […]

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Print Referencing – Early Literacy Skills

Allison McDonald — Tue, 10 May 2022 19:20:35 +0000

Have you ever noticed how many technical terms there are in early education? Education, in general, has a lot of jargon and sometimes the definitions are anything but consistent. This article is all about print referencing which is an early literacy strategy that every preschool and kindergarten teacher should master and include in their classroom. […]

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Printable Sound Matching Clip Cards

Allison McDonald — Thu, 21 Oct 2021 22:02:34 +0000

One of my goals as a teacher of any age is to meet my students where they are at. I often say to audiences of teachers when I speak that their responsibility is to teach the child in front of them. That means that we are teaching at all different levels all day. Especially when […]

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Phonological Awareness Activities

Allison McDonald — Thu, 19 Aug 2021 18:36:47 +0000

Wow-what a title. 5 phonological awareness activities for preschool. How can it be easy when the title isn’t even easy to say? Reading is kinda technical, although, in preschool and homeschooling preschool, we don’t really have to be super technical. We do have to keep some skills in mind while planning lessons and our learning […]

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Printable Rhyming Game

Allison McDonald — Tue, 20 Jul 2021 23:37:04 +0000

I am always thinking about new ways to work on the same skills because novelty is a powerful motivator but so is familiarity. That is why I like to make games with the same basic rules, like roll & cover games with different themes. This is another variation of a roll & cover game, although […]

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