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Reading Corner
Reading and sharing books with children is beneficial to a child's development and learning. Most importantly, reading should be fun to develop a love of reading!
Steps to Teach Reading: Step 4 Language Comprehension
Understanding the process of teaching reading is helpful whether you are looking to teach your child to read at home or support their...
Steps to Teach Reading: Step 3 Orthographic Mapping
Do you want to teach your child to read at home? Or perhaps you are looking to support the instruction taking place at school? Whatever...
Steps to Teach Reading: Step 2 Decoding
Teaching children decoding strategies gives them the tools they need to read words, even the words that "break the rules." Whether you...
Steps to Teach Reading: Step 1 Phonological Awareness
Whether you are trying to teach your child to read independently or you are trying to support your child's learning at school,...
The Science of Reading vs. Balanced Literacy
Recently, there has been renewed interest in a decades-long debate on how schools are teaching reading. The argument is over if schools...
Book Recommendation: From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
I love this book! Back when I was teaching, it was one of my favorites to read - aloud. I highly recommend this book for you to read with...
Let's Go On a Bear Hunt! (A Fun Book Activity!)
I love this classic book and it's a great book to pair with a variety of activities! It's also very rhythmic, which is great for...
20 Tips for Raising Book Lovers
I love to read and I am hoping that I will share and pass on my love of reading. As a former teacher, I would argue that encouraging a...
Women's History Month Book Ideas
A great way to celebrate women's history month and teach your children about amazing women is to read books related to the topic with...
Tips for Reading to Older Children
Once your child is reading independently, you may think they don't need to be read to or that it is more beneficial for them to read on...
15 Tips for Reading to Preschoolers
Reading to preschoolers is so very important as we are working to build early literacy skills for our little ones and build a lover of...
20 Tips for Reading to an Early-Elementary-Aged Child
Reading to your child has so many benefits for children ages 0 to 14 - check out my post about all of the benefits here. From my...
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