Reading

  • DIY name book for kids, featuring a 4x6 photo album with handwritten name cards and small family portraits. A fun and educational activity for toddlers, preschoolers, and early readers to learn letter sounds, spell their names, and recognize family and classmates' names.

    Make Your Own Name Book for Families or Classrooms

    Make Your Own Name Book: A Fun Way to Learn Names and Letters! Looking for a fun and easy way to help your little one learn family names, letter sounds, and even how to spell their own name? This Make Your Own Name Book is perfect for toddlers, preschoolers, and beginning readers. Who Am I? […]

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  • LEGO Books for Beginning Readers

    We love to read and we love LEGO!  Does reading a book about your favorite toy count as reading?  Yes!  What about comic books, does that still count as reading?  Yes!  I’ve pulled together our Top 10 Beginning Reader LEGO Books.  If you’re curious about how to figure out your child’s reading level, you’ll like “The […]

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  • Improve Reading Fluency with Reading Trackers

    Is your child or student ready to stop using their “Reader Finger”, but still needs something to hold their place when reading?  Using a Reading Tracker (I call them “sliders”) allows students to track the words across the page.  Since the trackers are transparent, readers can see the upcoming text on the page. From my […]

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  • Reader Sit – Getting Ready to Read

    I developed the term Reader Sit after watching children try to read with their hands in their laps or laying across their desks.  They think their eyes do all of the work, when really they use their whole body.  This is perfect to teach to beginning readers, but I teach students all the way through elementary school […]

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  • Homework Help for Busy Readers – Sliders

    Deluxe Durable Plastic Eye Lighter Reading Guide Strip (4 pack) Here’s a super helpful tip for your readers!  I’ve always called these “sliders” because they slide through books.  These are usually purchased for one of the following reasons: a.  Child is having trouble “tracking” (losing their place in a long piece of text) b.  They […]

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