Looking for homeschool reading curriculum for your kindergartener? Â Look no further than the Pathways to Reading Homeschool Basic Foundational Curriculum! Â Research and evidence-based and adapted specifically for the homeschool setting! When we decided to homeschool last year, I looked at…
Today is Day 5 of our 30 Days of Reading Fun for Beginning Readers series. On Thursdays during this series we will be focusing on phonics (one of the five elements of well-balanced reading instruction). Whereas phonemic awareness…
What are Word Families? Beginning readers can benefit greatly from learning and implementing word families. Here is what I share regarding phonograms (the fancy word for word families)Â in my I Can Teach My Child to Read eBook: “Another strategy…
After our Word Family Snowball Toss activity, I was trying to think of a way to repurpose the ping pong balls and thought it would be fun to use them to fish! Learning word families (words with the same…
Word families can be a beneficial component in your teaching-your-child-to-read toolbox. To put it simply, word families are words that rhyme. Teaching children word families is a phonemic awareness activity that helps children see patterns in reading. This is…
This is one of those activities that the boys and I LOVED and I am SO EXCITED to share with you! It is the perfect union of reading/decoding and science. And it was definitely a huge hit at our…
Little Brother and I are working on learning (and reinforcing) letter sounds. I am also in the throes of learning how to juggle 3 kids…while nursing a newborn about 7-8 times each day. Needless to say, activities these days…
These Word Family Lego Buildings are a great way to encourage your child to hear/see patterns in reading. This is an important skill because it allows children to begin “reading” by grouping sets of letters within a word. To…
Guest Post by Becky of This Reading Mama My son {currently 4 years old} loves to “do school” at home. He asks for it quite often, which warms my heart! He’s also my child that likes to get…
Part of learning to read is learning to recognize the various graphemes within a word. A grapheme is the visual representation of a phoneme (the smallest unit of sound). Although we stress learning individual letter sounds, we often forget…
