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Short o and Sight Word Play

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florida lottery ALuv is finishing up his study of short o words.  Yes, it has taken us quite some time to get through them.  We have taken short breaks here and there; which has been refreshing.  I also didn’t get pictures of some of the stuff I wanted to post about, but oh well! After posting all the pictures, it…
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Struggling Readers Need Specific and Positive Reading Encouragement

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Welcome to This Reading Mama!  You’ve just joined me for a 10 week series called 10 Things Struggling Readers Need.  If you missed the intro, click HERE or on the image above to read more about this series! Many Struggling Readers Have a Low Reading Esteem Struggling readers, especially those in the upper grades, tend to carry with them a low…
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Struggling Readers Series: 10 Things Struggling Readers Need

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*This post affiliates links.  To learn more about this, please read my disclosure policy. For the next few weeks, I’d like to focus on struggling readers. Struggling readers are a passion of mine. I’ve tutored and taught many of them, from K through 5th grades, and have seen them become confident and capable readers (who actually enjoy reading). Part of why I…
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More Butterfly Writing

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As we’re wrapping up our study on butterflies, I wanted to post a couple of ways we integrated writing into our unit.  I have been SO proud of his attitude while writing lately. 1.  Butterfly Life Cycle I read Becoming Butterflies by Anne Rockwell.  This book tells about the life cycle of Monarch butterflies and we compared it to what…
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"Doing School" with NJoy: B is for Butterfly

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mega millions NJoy is currently 2 years, 8 months.  And this little boy NJOYS learning.  He is actually borderline obsessive! 🙂  He has walked into our new schoolroom several times since its construction and demanded, “I want to ‘do school’!” (It really sounds more like “do cool”; since he can’t say his s blends very well). Magnetic letter play “Mommy,…
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