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Struggling Reader Giveaway

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This giveaway is happening quite on accident! 🙂  If you’ve been following along, you know the story.  To make a long story short, I am now the proud owner of two copies of What Really Matters for Struggling Readers by Richard Allington all because of my pregnant and forgetful brain.  Instead of keeping both, I’ve decided to share one copy–the…
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Struggling Readers Need Exposure to Different Kinds of Text

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We made it!  This is the last of my Struggling Reader series.  If you’re new to This Reading Mama, you can click HERE or on the image above to see all nine posts from this series. *This post contains affiliate links.  Please read my disclosure policy for more information. Today I’d like to focus on how struggling readers need to be…
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Saturday's Sites

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Here are some sites I discovered this week while surfing around… I discovered a UK website from The Book Chook that I’d never heard of before.  It’s called CBeebies.  One thing I noticed while looking at the read aloud stories is that the language may need to be explained first to a child in the states.  For example, it reads, “Once…
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T is for Turtle

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Yes, we’re finally done with the letter T!  It’s only taken a month…but that’s what I get for being so sporadic recently in our schooling.  In a week or so, we’re going to really buckle down and I’m praying my body will hold up. 🙂  It’s the hunger that gets to me the most…seems like every hour or so, my…
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Struggling Readers Need Support Before Reading

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*This post contains affiliate links.  Please read my disclosure policy for more information. Welcome back to 10 Things Struggling Readers Need, a 10-week series! If you’re joining me for the first time today, please click HERE or on the image above for more posts in this series. The students I tutored read texts that I provided during our tutoring sessions, but…
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