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Technology Issues

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You’ve probably noticed that not much has been posted this week.  It’s not because you’ve been forgotten!  I have three posts ready to go here and I would love to get them “published”; yet I cannot seem to get any pictures to upload to any of them.  My pictures aren’t too large and I haven’t reached the maximum amount of…
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Struggling Readers Need to Learn to Read by Analogy

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We’re on part 8 of a 10-week series called 10 Things Struggling Readers Need.  If you’re new to This Reading Mama, welcome!  Please click HERE or on the image above to read the background of this series as well as look through the topics of weeks 1-7. *This post contains affiliate links.  To learn more about this, please read my disclosure…
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Saturday's Sites

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I just have a couple of sites for today: Visit Annie for Unit 8 of her Ready 2 Read series.  It’s the final unit of Level 1, but she says be ready to watch out for Level 2! April, from Chalk Talk, has a great post on how to use Legos in educational ways.  She has posted one of my…
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Sight Words: When They Just Don’t Stick

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*This post contains affiliate links. I’ve been asked a few questions recently about what do when sight words just aren’t “sticking” for a child. My approach to literacy has and always will be a developmental approach. My developmental philosophy has been grounded by the authors of Words Their Way, and Linnea Ehri, a nationally known reading researcher. Her article Phases…
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Struggling Readers Need to Develop “Thoughful Literacy”

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 *This post contains affiliate links.  To learn more about this, please read my disclosure policy. Hi and welcome to This Reading Mama!  I’m on week 7 of a 10-week series focused on struggling readers.  Many of these ideas come from my experience with struggling readers as a private reading tutor and also from the book, What Really Matters for Struggling…
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