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Summertime Sight Word Review Game Series

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As I posted with my June Writing Prompts, I was amazed to find out that if kids don’t keep their brains active during the summer months, they can lose up to 60% of what they learned from the school year! So, I’m going to spend each Monday of this summer posting sight word activities and games that you can do with…
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Samson’s Classroom Review & Giveaway!

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Over the past few weeks, ALuv and I have been reviewing a cute internet-based learning program called Samson’s Classroom.  Now, you have the chance to win one free year of Samson’s Classroom! This fun, little character guides students through games that help with sight words, spelling, and reading comprehension. ALuv greatly enjoyed playing the sight word and spelling games, interacting…
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Word Family Poetry

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Last week, ALuv and I worked through an a_e word sort from Words Their Way.  We also incorporated some short/long a word family games to go with it. And we created more poetry -word family style.  Yesterday, I posted about our sight word poetry and today I wanted to share the poetry ALuv created with the -ake word family. First,…
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Sight Word Poetry

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When ALuv was younger and began learning sight words, we hand- crafted many predictable readers together. Here are a couple examples of ones we made: sight words-I and see sight words-my and is Now that he’s reading quite a few more words, I thought it would be his turn to do the composing.  One of his new sight words recently…
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FREE Writing Prompts for June

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  Summer is a time to take a nice break from school, but I was astonished to discover that a break without any learning can result in a student losing up to 60% of what he’s learned! What?!? Totally crazy! So, I’ve created some writing prompts for June for my own kiddos and I wanted to share them with you, too!…
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