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-at hat slider

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pa lottery I said I’d post my -at hat slider what seems like forever ago to go with this lesson.  Thank you for to my WONDERFUL husband for solving the scanning issue with our printer! You can make this activity more difficult by whiting out the onsets I’ve chosen and putting in blends (such as fl-) or digraphs (such as…
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Quick Tips for Independent Work

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When you’re teaching more than one learner, independent work is necessary. In order to work one-on-one with a child or with small groups of learners, the other learners need to be doing something. If independent work is not executed in a purposeful manner, it can become a necessary “evil”, serving to frustrate your learner(s) and you! Do you ever find yourself…
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Short a Review

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After studying 5 different short a word families (-at, -an, -ad, -ap, and –ag) with ALuv, we took a break from doing more short a word families and reviewed the short a word pattern (CVC).  I felt that he was ready to do this because he was able to sound out and read short a words we had not studied,…
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I successfully have a username for my Facebook fan page!  Thank you to my first 25 Facebook fans! If you’d like to become a fan and have my posts come directly to your FB wall, check me out at:  https://www.facebook.com/thisreadingmama and click on “Like”. If you prefer, you can sign up to follow me via email.  Look on the right sidebar of my blog…
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More Word Family Fun with AP and AG

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After ALuv and I had studied –at, -an, and –ad, we went on to –ap and –ag with the picture sorts from Words Their Way: Word Sorts for Letter Name-Alphabetic Spellers. Here are some of the activities we did with the words and pictures: I introduced the words and pictures like I did with this lesson We highlighted the different…
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