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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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Poetry & Punctuation: Reading with Fluency and Expression

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Reading with fluency is SO important for readers. Using poetry is the perfect avenue for reading with fluency and expression. Why poetry? It’s typically short and sweet and if you pick just the right poem, you can find a plethora of punctuation! *This post contains affiliate links. **The free poem download link can be found at the END of this…
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And the Winner is…

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Your 1 winners on “My Very First Giveaway!” are: 1) Bethany: bgr1007@yahoo.com     CONGRATULATIONS!!!  Bethany, I’ll email you so I can get these books to you. The winner of this giveaway was picked via the WordPress Plug-In “Pick Giveaway Winner”.

We're Going on a Vowel Hunt

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One of the things I like about the Montessori approach is the movable alphabet.  The consonants are blue and the vowels are red and you tell an early speller that all words have to have at least 1 red letter. So after ALuv (almost 6 years old) re-matched his short u words and pictures from Words Their Way, we looked at our…
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