Category: homeschooling
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Teaching Your Little One to Write (Part 2: Writing Activities)
Once my little ones were writing simple sentences like the one in the picture above, “Somebody goes to school.”, we began incorporating various writing activities into our daily writing time to help develop their writing. If you are interested in teaching your little one to write, see Part 1 of this blog. If they are…
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Teaching Your Little One to Write
I taught my children how to write when they were three years old, the same time they were learning how to read. Our writing lessons started with very simple pictures, gradually moving onto words and sentences. Not scary, just super fun, super easy, and super stress free. When I was teaching kindergarten, a colleague shared…
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Teach Your Little One to Read (Part 4: Reading Tips for Sounding Out Words)
When your little one is learning to read, they will come across words that are trickier to sound out than others. For words that are harder to “bubblegum” or sound out, i’ve made a list of tips to help with learning these words. If you want to teach your child how to read, but haven’t…
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Teaching Your Little One to Read (Part 3: Sight Words & Phonics Books)
I knew my kids were ready to start reading once they had learned the names and sounds of all the letters. If you are still working on the letter names and sounds with your child, read part 2 of this blog for fun ideas on how to teach the letters. I was super excited for…
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Teaching Your Little One to Read (Part 2: Letter Names and Sounds)
The journey of teaching my kids to read began very early on. It started with exposing them to books, as I discuss in part 1. We read together all the time and they knew what reading looked like by watching me do it. In addition to reading lots of books, I would sing the alphabet…
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Teaching Your Little One to Read (Part 1: Exposure to Books)
One question I get asked often is how I taught my kids to read so well at three years old. Exposure to books was the first step. I read to them all the time and we built a love for story time together. Here is a video of my daughter reading a third grade book…
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