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3 Important Skills Needed for Reading

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Well, to be fair, there are really MORE than three important skills needed for reading. But these three really do build a solid foundation for early {or emerging} readers. As a matter of fact, many of the struggling readers I’ve worked with {we’re talking 2nd-5th graders} struggle with one or more of these important reading skills. *This post contains affiliate links. The…
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Ride Over the Word

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I had planned on posting today about all the things we did this week to work on short o words, but I needed space to write about our absolute favorite way to play with short o…ALuv called it RIDE OVER THE WORD. ALuv has recently learned how to ride his bike without training wheels, and to say he’s addicted would be…
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B and D Reversals: A Developmental Approach {Easy Trick Included}

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B and D reversals are a common issue among younger children. There are many “tricks” teachers and parents try, like holding your fingers up to form the b and d or that the b has a belly and the d doesn’t. But in my experience, these tricks don’t always “do the trick” because kids still have a hard time visualizing…
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Hey! What’s the Big Idea?

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{photo credit} So far in this mini-series, I’ve posted ideas for texts that fit a particular text structure. Click on the picture above to see all of the posts in this series. *This post contains affiliate links.  For more information, you can read my disclosure policy.   Sometimes fiction texts don’t follow this exact structure.  Maybe there isn’t a clearly…
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We Play With Words

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Just a few ideas on how we play with words in case you’re looking for new ideas with your kiddos! So I wanted to join in the fun and share some of the things we do here at this reading mama’s house to work on sight words & word families.  If you follow my blog, many of these pictures will…
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