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Giveaway…Coming Wednesday!

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On Wednesday, I will host my first giveaway.  You don’t want to miss these great reading resources! I hope you’ll check back Wednesday for details.

Saturday's Sites

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Äæåê Ðè÷åð HD Michelle, from Beginning Reading Help, posted a cool website specific for parents to learn how to teach pre-reading skills.  It includes high quality videos.  Check it out! I honestly can’t remember which lesson I posted last of Annie’s Ready2Read series, but here is her latest: Unit 6.  Remember, there’s free printables and free lesson plans.  She’s got…
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Snug as a Bug in a Rug – a Hide and Seek Reading Game

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*This post contains affiliate links. ALuv has been working on Short u words.  In the Word Sorts for Letter Name-Alphabetic Spellers, the next sort after short o is short e. But in the south, short e is one of the hardest and most confusing short vowels for kids to pronounce. Plus, the authors included words that end in -en; which…
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Struggling Readers Need Uninterrupted Blocks of Time to Read

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Welcome to my 10-week series on struggling readers.  If you’re just joining me, you can click HERE on the image above to get caught up. *This post contains affiliate links.  To learn more about this, please read my disclosure policy. Struggling Readers Need Time to Read (and Re-Read) Struggling readers not only need specific encouragement, books they can read and…
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M is for M&M’s and…

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For the past 2 weeks, NJoy has been working on the letter M.  We’ve had a busy couple of weeks, so we worked on and off. I couldn’t decide on just one M theme, so we did several; but we did a lot with M&M’s…because what kid wouldn’t want to eat do schoolwork with them? These M&M activities came from…
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