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 ... Read More about We're Going on a Vowel Hunt
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Spelling with LEGO Letters and How to Make Your Own!
While awake at 4am the other morning {Yes. 4am}, I was contemplating how I could combine ALuv's obsession with LEGO bricks and my love for hands-on spelling. As I mulled over how this could be done, an idea popped into my head. Since ALuv has a HUGE bucket of LEGO bricks (we easily have over ... Read More about Spelling with LEGO Letters and How to Make Your Own!
Stage 2: Now I Know My ABC’s (roughly 5-7 years old)
Reader Behaviors Beginning: move from pretend reading to real reading may say, “I can’t read” as they realize they do not know all the words in a book use mostly pictures and initial consonants to help them figure out unknown words (context clues) may guess at unknown words, even if ... Read More about Stage 2: Now I Know My ABC’s (roughly 5-7 years old)
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