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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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Kindergarten Sight Word Game

Allison McDonald — Sun, 19 Apr 2020 23:35:07 +0000

Sight word activities have been one of the most popular searches on my site since schools started to shut down in March. It makes sense because it’s an easy topic for kindergarten teachers to send home for remote learning. However, many parents are frustrated at so much screen time being used for learning. If you […]

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10 Early Literacy Rhyming Activities

Allison McDonald — Thu, 05 Mar 2020 21:56:18 +0000

Rhyming is a foundational literacy skill that children need for a bunch of reasons. When children play with rhymes, they are playing with sounds and learning to recognize sound patterns. Rhyming uses a lot of different skills like listening, distinguishing specific sounds (phonemes), and being able to break a word into syllables. For these reasons, […]

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DIY Reading Pointers and Bookmarks

Allison McDonald — Wed, 19 Oct 2016 08:08:44 +0000

Tracking as you read is an important scaffold for developing literacy skills. Parents and teachers use tracking as a way for children to follow along with the text and children use tracking with their finger or with fun reading pointers before they start tracking only using their eyes. Not only do these tools help children […]

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If you have 30 extra minutes to work on literacy what would you spend it doing? Simple ways parents can help their kids read.

Allison McDonald — Tue, 11 Nov 2014 17:58:33 +0000

If you had 30 extra minutes to work on reading what would you spend it doing? I get asked this question a lot. After reading with them, to them, and listening to them read or tell you stories? Well that depends on the child but I will try to answer this question in a very […]

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