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Teaching Kids How to Infer Word Meanings

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Welcome back to our 10-week series called Reading Comprehension Strategies! So far, we’ve covered using your schema, making connections, and making predictions. Today, you can join The Measured Mom as she shares an inferring lesson for word meanings.   The skill of inferring covers MANY things. Word meanings is just one of them. Other inferring lessons might include inferring feelings,…
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Roll a Rhyme – Rhyming Activity {FREE}

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My toddler has begun to take a big interest in rhyming words. Just a few weeks ago, I happened to mention the fact that her name rhymes with her absolute favorite cartoon character. I kept saying the two names back-to-back, saying, “They rhyme.” Ever since then, we have made a lot more rhyming word pairs together. And while she hasn’t…
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Learning the Alphabet: Letter E Printable Pack

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Our FREE Letter Ee pack from Learning the Alphabet is here! If you’re new to Learning the Alphabet, you learn more about it and see all the activities in action in our introductory post. You can also find all the FREE packs we’ve posted HERE. *This post contains affiliate links.   Letter E Printable Pack The activities in each letter…
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Listening for Rhymes with Clip Cards

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Learning to listen for and identify rhymes is an important part of learning to read AND spell. Many rhyming words share common chunks that can help kids read and spell new words, like I talk about in our word family post. {Of course, this is not true for all rhyming words, but it is for many of them.} My daughter, age…
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Rhyming Books that You Can SING!

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Have you ever noticed that music and literacy have such a strong connection? That might be odd to hear because usually it’s music and math. But just think about all the fun ways that music and lyrics play with sounds in words. It really is a fascinating idea and one that could compose another post entirely. Including rhyming songs in…
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