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Hands-On Letter Sounds Activity

Allison McDonald — Sun, 17 Jan 2016 21:42:35 +0000

Learning the sounds that letters make is one of the building blocks for reading. While I don’t advocate rushing children to read early, I do advocate PLAYING with letters and letter sounds when they are preschoolers. As teachers and parents, we look at activities like this through an adult lens, and we may see it as […]

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Paint & Read { and sound it out }

Allison McDonald — Fri, 12 Jul 2013 07:57:21 +0000

Two skills children need to master in their journey to independent reading are segmenting and blending sounds. Segmenting is breaking a word apart into individual sounds and blending is very simply the ability to combine the sounds together smoothly. When we tell a child to sound it out , this is really what we are […]

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Peg Board Rhyming Activity {Learning After School}

Allison McDonald — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 08:01:32 +0000

My son is a good student but like most new writers he needs to work on his fine motor skills. He enjoys writing now but I still like to sneak in some fine motors skills. I do this with activities he loves such as rhyming. This rhyming activity uses novelty and interaction to keep kids […]

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