This Reading Mama

You are here: Home / Blog

How Science Can Help Improve Reading Skills

By Leave a Comment

We all want to improve reading skills with our kids. Whether you’re a parent, teacher, or homeschooler, improving kids reading skills is of high priority. And did you know that doing a little science has the potential of improving reading, writing, and spelling skills as well? Plus, it’s kind of fun. *This post contains affiliate links. I totally confess. We don’t…
Read More

Short Vowel Activity Pack

By 9 Comments

Most all the printables you can find here at This Reading Mama are free. I’m a little addicted to making them and have two pages for our free printables: Preschool Printables and Elementary Printables. And while it’s nice to have all those freebies, sometimes you may just looking for one thing. And today, if it’s fun short vowel activities, you’re in…
Read More

FREE Short Vowel Playdough Mats {CVC Words}

By 10 Comments

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…
Read More

Sight Word Paint, Write and Tally

By Leave a Comment

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…
Read More

Learning the Alphabet – FREE Letter R Printable Pack

By 1 Comment

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…
Read More