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Card Game for Learning Multiplication Doubles

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My oldest son really struggles to memorize. He always has and probably always will. So even though we’ve been playing our super fun multiplication games, asking for a quick answer to 4 x 7 often causes lots of anxiety. So, it was back to the drawing board for me {this is the part of teaching that I love.} He knew 1x,…
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Determining Importance with Fiction

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Determining importance is, in my experience as a teacher and tutor, more difficult for readers to learn. Strategies such as predicting or making mental images seem to come a little easier. I believe this is because determining importance in text is quite a bit more complicated than other strategies. First off, it seems to require more steps for processing. Secondly, text…
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Color and Read Emergent Readers {Updated and Expanded!}

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A couple of years ago, I created some color and read emergent readers that my son in Pre-K used. This year, I’m using them with my 4 year old daughter, MBug, who is currently working through Reading the Alphabet. Because she knows several sight words already, these were a perfect fit. But they needed some updating and at her request, I…
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Learning the Alphabet – FREE Letter H Printable Pack

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Today, we’re sharing our Letter H Pack of Learning the the Alphabet, printable ABC packs that are designed to teach kids upper and lowercase letters PLUS letter sounds. If you are unsure how to do one of the activities, be sure to visit our introductory post, which has tons of images of the printables in action. I also am beginning…
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Helping Kids Sound out Words

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I often receive emails asking how to help kids learn to sound out words. Many times, it’s because kids struggle to blend together the sounds in the word. For example, they may sound out the individual sounds in a word, like /l/ – /o/ – /g/ and then say something like, bat. Ugh. And this can be very frustrating for the…
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