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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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A Lazy Few Weeks

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It’s been a different pace over here at This Reading Mama’s house for the last few weeks.  Between all three kids having the stomach bug, just the summer lazies, and the fact that I’M IN MY FIRST TRIMESTER OF PREGNANCY (10 weeks today); we’ve been quite lazy over here!  But I’ve managed to get a a few shots of all…
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Saturday's Sites

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Äæåê Ðè÷åð I came across this AWESOME website when I was looking back through my Word Study notebook.  It was jotted in the margin of my syllabus and I decided to go take a look!  Oh, my goodness.  I’ve already added this one to Websites This Reading Mama Likes! Here are just a few of the links related to some…
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