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sight word games to prepare for kindergarten: go fish!
Owen has been really interested in reading lately, so I’m trying to roll with it without pushing him or having him lose interest–so games have been my go-to. He’s trying desperately to grab the words...
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a fish out of water: games to practice sight words
Owen and I had to play a few extra games of Go Fish! this week to celebrate the Water Fun we’ve got on our calendar for the Smart Summer Challenge, but also because he is only weeks away from...
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back-to-school shopping with three crazy-cool kids
After our crazy-successful Smart Summer Challenge, I needed a little week-long offline vay-cay to say the least! Our Smart Summer Challenge was a smashing success (woo-hoo!), but blogging daily for...
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best of teach mama countdown: #9 — building words, names
This post, which rolls in at #9, continues to surprise me with the amount of hits it gets. Maybe it’s the title: word building, name building (and crossing the line). Maybe people find it...
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best of teach mama countdown: #2 — spelling words
Yay! We’re getting down to the wire with this teach mama top 10 all-time best countdown! This post is one that I have shared probably more than times than any other post I’ve written. It seems that...
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words 3 ways: learning sight words for kindergarten
Cora is totally into learning how to read , so I am seriously running with it. She wants to practice the sight words that were included in her kindergarten packet. She wants to be able to decode the...
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learn about safe online browsing (and win an iPad mini)
I’m so excited to have been invited to be a panelist for a Twitter event this week that brings together digital and families and kids and online safety and wraps it up in one, big pretty package. It’s...
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3 all-time best games to play with sight words
What games do you play with sight words? Sight words are words that we all need to be able to read quickly and automatically in order to be strong readers, and the more we allow emerging readers to...
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early literacy game for kids: read a word, build a snowman
originally published December 20, 2009 We have had a ton of snow dropped on us in the last two days; clearly, my kiddos have snow on the brain. So I knew that if I wanted to sneak in a little bit of...
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rainbow words: free sight word printable
Learning sight words is one of the most important things that our kids can do as they become readers. However, learning sight words can also be one of the most boring things our kids can do as they...
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