Education resources for parents and teachers
Looking for children's picture books about Christmas? Here are 27 of them! Looking for fun seasonal books to read to your learners? In this post I share over 20 Christmas-themed books for young listeners. If you're looking for Christmas books with a Christian theme, zoom to the second half of the post. Christian Christmas books It's shocking how hard it is to ... Read More
Need another way to build math fact fluency? Try these fun printable math games - they're free! Let's talk about basic math facts, shall we? Addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. All math teachers agree that their learners need to develop fluency with these facts. What is math facts fluency? It's the quick and effortless recall of math facts. If kids have to think for a minute ... Read More
Do you have learners who sound out CVC words, but do it oooh sooo slowwwlly? Cat isn't "cat." It's "/k/ /ă/ /t/." Or maybe they mix up their middle vowels. Sip becomes "sap." I'm currently working with a group of sweet, bright first graders for about 20 minutes each morning before they start the school day. Before our first session, their teachers had told me that they needed help with basic reading skills. So I ... Read More
Are you doing opposite activities with your preschooler? Be sure to read some picture books from this list of books about opposites! It's time for another list! These books about opposites are perfect to read alongside the activities in our opposites pack. 25 books about opposites Did you find some new books to get at your library? Be ... Read More
It's so much fun to explore different versions of familiar tales! They're also great for building the skills of comparing/contrasting. Fun versions of Goldilocks & the Three Bears Have you seen our Reader's Theater scripts yet? Build fluency with these familiar tales... including Goldilocks and the Three Bears! ... Read More
Now that she knows all her letters and sounds and has other important pre-reading skills,I've been teaching my daughter (4 years, 9 months) to read short vowel words. I'm not going to tell you she's been jumping up and down about it. In fact, until recently, she didn't want to learn at all. What made the difference was teaching her to blend sounds using successive blending (I have a video here all about it if you ... Read More
When parents ask me for ways to teach colors to their toddler or preschooler, my first recommendation is to read books about colors. This list is a great place to start! There are a million books about colors out there, but for this post I wanted to focus on the ones that are best for teaching colors. If you have a toddler or preschooler who can't identify colors by name, try reading the books on this ... Read More
This post about blending sounds contains affiliate links. I'm currently teaching my younger daughter to read. She knows all her letters, most of her sounds, and other pre-reading skills. But we've been hitting a little bit of a wall with blending sounds. She'll see a word like this: wag, and she'll say the sounds /w/ /a/ /g/ ... "Pat?" Woah ... where did pat come from? Actually, this ... Read More
Looking for some fun fall-themed read alouds? Check out my list of books about scarecrows! ... Read More
Children's literature can be a great way to introduce math concepts. Check out this list of books about multiplication! Today I'm sharing a big collection of books that you can use to introduce and reinforce multiplication. P.S. Find the mega list of books about math concepts at Imagination Soup! ... Read More
