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Homeschool Reading Curriculum for Kindergarten

Homeschool Reading Curriculum for Kindergarten

Looking for homeschool reading curriculum for your kindergartener? Look no further than the Pathways to Reading Homeschool Basic Foundational Curriculum! Research and evidence-based and adapted specifically for the homeschool setting! When we decided to homeschool last year, I looked at…

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Phonological Awareness Activities for Preschoolers Printable

Phonological Awareness Activities for Preschoolers Printable

These phonological awareness activities for preschoolers are perfect for helping set your child up for future reading success! With no materials required beyond these printable cards, this is perfect for doing with your child on-the-go! The more we learn about how our…

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The Tale of Despereaux Book Club Ideas

The Tale of Despereaux Book Club Ideas

Looking for activities to go along with the book? We’ve got you covered with these hands-on ideas to bring your next The Tale of Despereaux book club to life! We recently organized a Zoom book club for my first grade daughter and…

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5 Fun Ways to Encourage More Reading in Your Home

5 Ways to Make Reading Fun

How do we as parents make reading fun for our kids instead of something that they dread? We are sharing five fun ways to encourage more reading in your home! As parents, we all know that reading should…

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Sight Word Christmas Tree

Sight Word Christmas Tree Printable

Practice basic sight words in a festive way with this Sight Word Christmas Tree Printable! A blank version is included as well if you would like to practice specific words instead of the ones I have included! My…

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The Best Christmas Books for Kids

The Best Christmas Books for Kids

Looking for inspiring and engaging books to read as a family this Christmas? We have compiled a list of what we consider to be the best Christmas books for kids! From babies to tweens, these books will captivate our kids…

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Picture Books about Veterans Day

Picture Books about Veterans Day

When trying to explain the importance of veterans and our active duty military to our youngest citizens, books are always an excellent resource! These picture books about Veterans Day offer the perfect opportunity for instilling respect and appreciation for these…

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Roll and Retell Reading Comprehension Activity

Roll and Retell Reading Comprehension Activity

It’s the final day of our 30 Days of Reading Fun for Beginning Readers series!!! Since today is a Monday, we are focusing on reading comprehension. This Roll and Retell Reading Comprehension Activity helps engage young readers in recalling details…

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Printable Rhyming Words Memory Game

Printable Rhyming Words Memory Game

It’s Day 29 of our 30 Days of Reading Fun for Beginning Readers series! Today we played this Printable Rhyming Words Memory game over and over and over. My 5-year old daughter couldn’t get enough of this game (and…

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Environmental Print BINGO

Environmental Print BINGO

True Story: The first word my oldest son ever “read” was “Sonic”. And by “read”, I mean associated the logo with the word (the very beginning of reading). I was super surprised, even as a teacher knowing the…

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Identifying Beginning, Middle, and Ending Sounds in Words

Identifying Beginning, Middle, and Ending Sounds in Words

Today is Tuesday of our 30 Days of Reading Fun for Beginning Readers series and on Tuesdays we explore phonemic awareness concepts. Identifying and isolating individual sounds in words can sometimes be difficult for beginning readers. This activity…

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Simple Story Map Printable for Kindergartners

Simple Story Map Printable for Kindergartners

We are slowly but surely making our way through our 30 Days of Reading Fun for Beginning Readers series (we are on Day 23 to be exact). I already did a printable for reading comprehension, but wanted to add…

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Consonant and Vowel Toss and Sort

Consonant and Vowel Toss and Sort

This activity is a hands-on way for kids to explore the concept of consonants and vowels. As adults we all learned that there are two different types of letters: the vowels are “a”, “e”, “i”, “o”, and “u” (and…

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Rhyming Words Matching Activity

Rhyming Words Matching Activity

Rhyming is such an important phonological awareness skill. This giant rhyming words matching activity is perfect for pre-readers and beginning readers! I love the challenge of transforming an activity that would often be included on a worksheet to…

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Activating Schema using Nonfiction for Kindergartners

Activating Schema using Nonfiction for Kindergartners

According to Debbie Miller in the book Reading with Meaning, “schema” is another word for background knowledge, or what one already knows about a specific subject. One’s “schema” does not just include facts, however, it also encompasses all of…

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Punctuation Sentences for Fluency Printable

Punctuation Sentences for Fluency Printable

It’s Fluency Friday for our 30 Days of Reading Fun for Beginning Readers series! Understanding punctuation is vital for helping our kids to become fluent readers. Our beginning readers should be able to model the correct inflection for each…

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Sight Word Spray

Sight Word Spray

It’s Day 11 of our 30 Days of Reading Fun for Beginning Readers series. On Wednesdays during this series we are focusing on vocabulary and/or sight words. We have done TONS of sight words activities over the years (mostly…

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Fiction and Nonfiction Book Sort

Fiction and Nonfiction Book Sort

It’s Day 9 of our 30 Days of Reading Fun for Beginning Readers series. On Mondays during this series we are focusing on comprehension and this Fiction and Nonfiction Book Sort helps children understand the concept between real and…

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