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The Chicken or the Egg?

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If you google the topic, you’ll find there’s a heated debate on the topic of which should be taught first: letter names or letter sounds?  Quite honestly, I hadn’t even considered the question until I was introduced to Montessori, which teaches letter sounds first.  In all of my training and reading of research literature, it was evident to me that…
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G is for Gumball

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Ìóâè 43 ñìîòðåòü îíëàéí â õîðîøåì êà÷åñòâå After we had finished our week of G, I realized that I should have postponed its debut a little longer than I did.  G is a tricky one: the sound in the name points only to the soft sound /j/, so NJoy has trouble remembering the hard /g/ sound.  The same is true…
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Our Week of Short i

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We’ve picked up the pace over at This Reading Mama’s house as our official school year has begun (we started the week of Labor Day).  I just wish I could keep up with posting!  We are now focusing on one word sort a week versus spreading the one sort out over a couple of weeks or more.  ALuv was ready…
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Saturday's Sites

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I ABSOLUTELY LOVE THIS TIME OF YEAR!!!  From apples and pumpkins to crisp, cool days with blue, blue skies to teachers back in their classrooms HARD at work and posting ideas on their blogs.  (How they even find the time to post anything is what absolutely amazes me!)  Here are some of my literacy gems this week: (Enjoy!) If you’ve enjoyed Carisa’s…
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Roll and Write Sight Words Game

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  *This post contains affiliate links. Please read my full disclosure policy for more information. This is a game I used in the classroom quite a bit to review our sight words and the kids LOVED it.  I used it for the first time with ALuv {currently in Kindergarten} this week and it was a big hit for him as…
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