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School’s Out: A Top 10 Series by KBN

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School’s out!  But the learning continues.  The good news is the bloggers at Kid Blogger Network have done the work for you. Starting tomorrow, over 20 mama bloggers from KBN will be posting their Top 10 ways to keep kids learning while school is out!  Here is the line-up. {As each link goes live, I’ll insert the link so you…
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Reading the Alphabet UG Word Family (Lesson 31)

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We did it!  We’re on the final lesson of Reading the Alphabet! Today, the focus is Reading the Alphabet UG Word Family. If you’re wondering what comes next, check out our Learn to Read curriculum, which piggybacks off of Reading the Alphabet in terms of phonics skills and sight words. You can also snag the free word family books from Learn…
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Activating Prior Knowledge {Part 1}

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Activating prior knowledge before, during, and after reading is a key component to keeping our readers engage with what they are reading. Without interacting with their prior knowledge, readers become passive, negatively affecting their comprehension and fluency. Today, I want to focus in on connecting new content to a reader’s prior knowledge. The term prior knowledge basically means what the…
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FREE Compound Words Pack

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As our younger readers progress through the first grade, their texts begin to include longer words. Sometimes, these are compound words, words that are made up of smaller words. Because compound words look long, young readers will sometimes shut down. This is what happened with ALuv {currently and the end of 1st grade}.     We’d already worked through breaking apart some two-syllable words and he was…
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FREE Summer PreK Pack

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It’s only May, but summer is right around the corner!  I’ve been working hard this week on creating a Summer PreK Pack.  There are 14 activities included in this FREE pack that are very similar in style to the activities in each of my Reading the Alphabet lessons.  The pack features literacy and math preschool skills such as: an early emergent…
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