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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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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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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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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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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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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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Reading Comprehension Recording Sheets for Beginning Readers

Reading Comprehension Recording Sheets for Beginning Readers

Helping a child connect with a book is one of the most important things we can do as we are teaching him/her to read. This focus is often overlooked in our plight to teach children to read by decoding…

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30 Days of Reading Fun for Beginning Readers

30 Days of Reading Fun for Beginning Readers

Join us for 30 Days of Reading Fun for Beginning Readers! This series is perfect for children who are ready to begin learning to read! One of my very favorite things in the world is teaching children to read! As…

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Sticky Wall Segmenting and Blending Activity for Beginning Readers

Sticky Wall Segmenting and Blending Activity for Beginning Readers

Little Sister (almost 5 years old) has shown a sudden interest in all things letters and sounds lately (which gives me great relief as she is by far the latest one of my children to show this interest). We…

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How To Teach A Child to Read In 10 Easy Steps

How To Teach A Child to Read In 10 Easy Steps

Teaching your child to read can be one of the most rewarding experiences of your life! Here we share 10 tips on how to teach a child to read, from pre-readers all the way to school-age children! When Do Kids…

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Bartholomew and the Oobleck Magic Art Activity

Bartholomew and the Oobleck Magic Art Activity

Today is Dr. Seuss’s birthday! This idea came to me while I was reading Bartholomew and the Oobleck to Little Sister (3 years old) this morning. This has been one of my boys’ favorite Dr. Seuss books for quite a while…

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Summer Reading Printables

Free Summer Reading Printables

This post won’t be pretty…I’m just basically vomiting this out because I know many of you are like me and are trying to get summer plans all lined out. In all honesty, we have very few plans for summer. A trip…

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The Cat in the Hat activity

The Cat in the Hat Builds That Activity

This month’s Virtual Book Club for Kids is exploring the beloved classic The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss. I don’t know about you, but I am a huge Dr. Seuss fan. I love the playful rhyme and repetition within his…

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Color Words Printable Book

Color Words Printable Book for Valentine’s Day

Our Color Words printable book is a great resource for early readers this Valentine’s Day! Have your child grab his/her crayons for this fun book! Your child/students will be able to read color words and color the heart on…

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Llama Llama Red Pajama Quilt Color Matching

Llama Llama Red Pajama Quilt Color Matching

This month’s book for the Virtual Book Club for Kids is Llama Llama Red Pajama by Anna Dewdney. We have read a few other Llama Llama books, but this specific book was new to us. As we read through the story, the one…

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