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Muffin Tin Syllable Counting Game For Kids

May 23, 2016 •

I'm all about fun and playful learning games.  I truly believe it's the best way for kids to learn.  Each week I share hands-on activities to build literacy skills.  One of my favorite tools to use View Post

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Giant-Sized Rhyming Memory Game

April 13, 2016 •

The weather is warming up and that means more time spent outdoors.  It's a perfect time to take our phonological awareness learning outside.  Today we are rhyming with a fun giant-sized rhyming memory View Post

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Phonemic Awareness Activity: Rainforest Animal Slide

March 30, 2016 •

Does your child know most of his letter sounds?  Are you wondering what to work on next? If so, it's time to play with those sounds and how they work together to make words.  We are building phonemic View Post

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Pet Store Rhyming Song

March 16, 2016 •

We do not have a pet.  So, my kids constantly talk about getting one or two or three!  Today we are going to sing about pets with this pet store rhyming song.  And in the process, we are going to View Post

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Building Phonemic Awareness: Airplane Flying Sounds

March 2, 2016 •

Look up.  It's an airplane.  Today we are building phonemic awareness with paper airplanes.  I think I hear some cheers out there. Phonemic awareness is the ability to hear and orally produce View Post

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Filed Under: All categories, Getting Ready to Read Tagged With: phonological awareness, Usborne

Where is the bug? This is a fun way to get kids to use language and spatial orientation.

Tic Tac Toe Spatial Orientation

February 22, 2016 •

Are you directionally challenged when traveling somewhere new?  Stop for a moment and think about everything you need to consider when you are trying to drive to a new restaurant, doctor's office or a View Post

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Make a fairy tale wand and then have some learning fun with your creation. Build phonological awareness with these activities to build rhyming, beginning sounds, segmenting syllables and phoneme manipulation.

Cast a Sound with a Fairy Tale Wand

February 17, 2016 •

Once upon a time, there was a child who loved listening to fairy tales.  She pretended to be Cinderella, Rapunzel and Snow White.  She always dreamed of having her own magic fairy tale wand to cast View Post

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