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FREE Short Vowel Playdough Mats {CVC Words}

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Is your child working on beginning and ending sounds or short vowel sounds? Maybe you have a small group in your classroom that needs some extra work on short vowels? Then these FREE Short Vowel Playdough Mats with CVC words are the perfect match for you {download at the END of this post}! *This post contains affiliate links.   Short Vowel Playdough…
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Sight Word Paint, Write and Tally

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Painting is a staple at our house. I contain it in the kitchen {easy clean up}, but it’s a great quiet time activity that the kids enjoy. We’ve done several activities with watercolor paint, like our Crayon Resist Sight Words and our Hidden Phonics Word Search activities. Today, I’m sharing one that has been a favorite with my Kindergartner for the last…
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Learning the Alphabet – FREE Letter R Printable Pack

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We’re on Letter R this week as we post our free ABC printable packs from Learning the Alphabet in order of the alphabet. I do not, however, introduce the alphabet in ABC order. And if you don’t either, the bundle pack would be a great place to get all 26 letters so you can do them in any order you’d…
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DUPLO Beginning Letter Sound Matching

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Phonics. It begins with letter sounds and developmentally speaking, the beginning letter sound is typically what kids hear and recognize first {pun intended}. You can see this in kids’ invented spellings of words. A word such as bed might only be spelled B. Car may only be C. This is completely normal and part of spelling and literacy development. Beginning…
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Word Problem Vocabulary Sorts {FREE Vocabulary Cards}

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Word problems. Just the sound of that term may bring back bad memories. I know it does for me. As an elementary student, I despised word problems with ever fiber of my body. Why? Because, as a struggling reader, I struggled to read and comprehend them. I also wasn’t sure what the problem wanted me to do. It would have…
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