We continue our year-long travels around the world our Family Dinner Book Club . It's a year of Around the World Family Dinner Book Club and our second stop is Colombia. We have lots of ideas to View Post
Great Books to Help Learn Spanish Words for Kids
In high school, I had two foreign language choices- Spanish and French. Even though the French class got to make crepes, I chose Spanish class. I lasted three years and picked up some vocabulary. View Post
Early Chapter Books for New Readers to Read On Their Own
Has your child broken the phonics code? Has his fluency developed past super choppy to more fluid and smooth reading? Does he understand what he reads? If so, he is ready to tackle the new frontier View Post
The Best Interactive Books for Kids
Over the past few years, there has been a trend toward interactive books for kids. These are books that encourage children to touch, pull, shake, and twist the books throughout the text. Some of View Post
Building Phonemic Awareness: Airplane Flying Sounds
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
Creating Baby’s First Library
I remember buying books for my baby's first library before my son was born almost five years ago. I had worked with kids ages 3 and up for many years, but now I got to think about books for View Post
6 Ways to Build Literacy Skills With Sticker Books for Kids
What is it about stickers? As a child I had a whole stash of scratch and sniff stickers. Oh, I can still imagine the smell of buttered popcorn, grape and root beer! As a teacher, I had a pretty large View Post