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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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LEGO Handwriting Mats – Read, Build, and Write

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Does your child think that the lines on the handwriting paper are just suggestions, like my Kindergartner? Then, these DUPLO and LEGO brick Handwriting Mats {FREE download at the end of this post} might just do the trick! We’ve played around with our LEGO letters a bit this year to understand that some letters are tall while other letters are short;…
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DUPLO Rhyming Word Matching

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Rhyming is one of the first pre-reading skills we can model with young children. And it’s fun to do. Songs and rhyming books are a must with young kids. So are rhyming games, like you can find in our Roll-a-Rhyme Activity. NSis {3 years old} loves to rhyme. So, we played a little rhyming word matching this week that I just…
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Learning the Alphabet: FREE Letter Q Printable Pack

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Today, we’re sharing our FREE Letter Q Printable Pack from Learning the Alphabet. If you’re new to Learning the Alphabet, you can read more about it plus see many of the activities in action in our introductory post. You can also find all our FREE printable packs from Learning the Alphabet here as well as see all our Letter of…
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