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Playing with Sounds in Words- Part 1 {Phoneme Isolation}

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It’s time to talk about phoneme isolation! Yay! This is the third post in the series, 3 Important Skills Kids Need for Reading.  *This post contains affiliate links. What is a Phoneme? The smallest unit of sound in the spoken language is a phoneme. A phoneme can be created by one letter, such as b: /b/ or more than one…
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Playing With Syllables

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Let’s explore playing with syllables! This is the third post in the series, 3 Important Skills Kids Need for Reading. *This post contains affiliate links. Playing with Syllables Teaching and learning syllables occurs much the same way as everything else.  First, you as the mama/teacher need to model over and over how it’s done, giving your child multiple and meaningful…
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Playing with Rhyming Words

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Let’s talk about playing with rhyming words! This is the second post in my series called 3 Important Skills Needed for Reading. *This post contains affiliate links. When teaching and modeling phonological awareness, it is good to start with the larger units of sound (like rhyming words) and move to the smaller, individual sounds.   Playing with Rhyming Words Book…
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3 Important Skills Needed for Reading

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Well, to be fair, there are really MORE than three important skills needed for reading. But these three really do build a solid foundation for early {or emerging} readers. As a matter of fact, many of the struggling readers I’ve worked with {we’re talking 2nd-5th graders} struggle with one or more of these important reading skills. *This post contains affiliate links. The…
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Saturday’s Sites

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I came across these great sites this week and wanted to share them with you: 1. I Love That Teaching Idea!- reading activities, writing/language arts activities, & spelling activities 2. The Moffatt Girls Unit 2 of Ready2Read.  I posted about Unit 1 last week.  Here is the 2nd installment :). 3. Would you like a FREE book?  If so, try the…
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