Teaching Reading with Word Families One of the things I like to do for reading is to work with word families. Word family exercises built around a phonics rule can help a child practice both a phonics approach and recognizing phonemes and words by sight. Using word families reinforces the patterns in the reading. Patterns make it easy for the kids to make and remember connections. Using Word Families for …
Mommy’s Law #2 – When Mommy is On the Phone
Mommy’s Law! Some things in a mom’s life just seem to work a certain way. I call it “Mommy’s Law.” For example, trying to make a phone call. We’ve all been there! We have an important call to make, or a friend calls to check in on us, and wham! Next thing you know, the kids are fighting, or bouncing off the walls, or something else that demands our attention. …
Teaching with Basal Readers : 10 Days of How to Teach Your Child to Read
Teaching With Basal Readers Basal readers (or primers) are short “textbooks” with an organized series of illustrated short stories used to teach a set of phonemes or sight words. You can find basal readers for both the phonics approach and the sight word approach. The most well known phonics-based reader is the McGuffey Reader series, which dates back to the 1860’s and is still widely used today. The most famous …