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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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Long i Vowel Pattern (FREE Printable Pack)

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Because ALuv (end of Kindergarten) did so well with the Long a Vowel Pack I made him, I created a Long i Vowel Pack to introduce the i_e pattern. The activities are all similar to the Long a pack; just with the Long i (I_E) pattern instead. I’ve also added a few games to the end! Woo hoo! *This post contains affiliate links….
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Saturday’s Savorings: Birthday Time!

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It’s SO hard to believe that MBug will be two years old very soon.  What happened to the little baby that I *just* brought home?!? We had a family birthday celebration for her this week. Since mine are still fairly young and without major opinions on what their gifts should be, I try to use birthdays and other gift-giving times…
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