In this post, you will find the 10 most intelligent animals book for kids. It is a free printable for you and your kids to enjoy together. From rats and crows and pigs to pigeons, you and your child will learn what makes each of these animals so smart and how scientists know. In this …
This Winter book for Beginning Readers is perfect for your early reader. Your reader will be exposed to the sight words (the, likes, who) as well as able to use the picture clues and predictable text to feel successful. It’s hard to find free, printable books for beginning readers so I decided to put together …
Pumpkin Compound Words is another easy game you can make using foam pumpkins, which can be found at most craft stores in the Fall. Download and print the free printable, or create your own. I glued the compound word picture on the orange pumpkins, and then glued the two words that create the compound word, …
10 Ways to Create a Literacy Rich Environment at Home for Your Toddler Turn your home into a place of learning for your tot. It doesn’t take too much time or energy to put these ideas together for your little ones. Create a home library and always make books available to your toddler Organize your …
I’m a reading specialist, as well as a mama to a first grade daughter, M. With school rapidly coming to a close, now is a great time to think of ways that you can continue reading your way through summer! These are some of my favorite ways, both for classroom AND home learning! Summer …
This is a really fun way to start introducing sight words in a way that gets kids excited to both write and read! Let your child guide you with words that interest them. My daughter really wanted to know all the names in our family, so we started with those words. Write one word on …
Sight Word Game – Four in a Row Four in a Row is a fun and easy way to practice sight words (or any other words, letters, colors, shapes, numbers, Math facts, or Science questions). How to Play: Read the word. If you read it correctly, cover that square with one of …
B brought a list of sight words home from school that he is supposed to practice each night. I knew we needed ways to practice sight words besides just reading the list. I made these games (using his word list) to make practicing the words more fun. Game 1 – Sight Word Sticks …
Put those plastic Easter eggs to use with this free, printable and Making Words activity! I put a few CVC words and pictures inside plastic Easter eggs for B to work with. He loved it! He would pour the letters and picture onto the table, say the name of the picture aloud, and then put …
Here are a few CVC Word Activities to work play your beginning reader. CVC words are words with a short vowel sound, consonant/vowel/consonant. Use this Silly/Real Word Sorting Printable with your child to work on phonics skills. Just print and cut the words apart. Ask your child to sound out or read a word. After they …
We’ve done a lot with these large, foam letter squares and B and I found one more way to use them. We had fun playing with words! This game (that B made up) was inspired by Leapfrog’s Talking Words Factory DVD (an awesome sequel to Letter Factory). B would make a word. Then, …
This Word Roll Game is a great one for beginning readers. Not only to they get to have fun reading words, but they also get experience working with a chart. To play this game you will need 2 dice (cover one with stickers and write letters on it) and the game board that you can print at …