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Create a Beautiful, Organized, and Joyful Community of Learners

By Nellie Edge | Sep 4, 2016 | Comments Off on Create a Beautiful, Organized, and Joyful Community of Learners

Posted by Nellie Edge on August 11, 2016 Once you get the community right, the levels of learning soar. – Ralph Peterson The continuing blog series featuring models of excellence in “Growing Kindergarten Writers” through Joyful Pathways to the Common Core How do we create a high-achieving community of engaged and purposeful writers? We start with nurturing […]

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Give Children The Affirming Language of “Reading is Fun!”:

By admin | Sep 3, 2016 | Comments Off on Give Children The Affirming Language of “Reading is Fun!”:

Accelerating language and reading skills simultaneously through singing, dramatizing, and signing songs is a multisensory learning experience that takes advantage of how the brain learns best! It is musical, personally engaging, and incorporates many “best practices”

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Give Young Readers “Books That Sing and Rhyme”:

By admin | Sep 3, 2016 | Comments Off on Give Young Readers “Books That Sing and Rhyme”:

Accelerating language and reading skills simultaneously through singing, dramatizing, and signing songs is a multisensory learning experience that takes advantage of how the brain learns best! It is musical, personally engaging, and incorporates many “best practices”

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All Children Deserve “Magical Memory Reading” Experiences

By admin | Sep 3, 2016 | Comments Off on All Children Deserve “Magical Memory Reading” Experiences

Accelerating language and reading skills simultaneously through singing, dramatizing, and signing songs is a multisensory learning experience that takes advantage of how the brain learns best! It is musical, personally engaging, and incorporates many “best practices”

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Kindergarten Friends Challenge: “I Can Say Every Name!”

By admin | Sep 3, 2016 | Comments Off on Kindergarten Friends Challenge: “I Can Say Every Name!”

Accelerating language and reading skills simultaneously through singing, dramatizing, and signing songs is a multisensory learning experience that takes advantage of how the brain learns best! It is musical, personally engaging, and incorporates many “best practices”

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Unique Features of Shared Literacy Experiences

By admin | Sep 3, 2016 | Comments Off on Unique Features of Shared Literacy Experiences

Accelerating language and reading skills simultaneously through singing, dramatizing, and signing songs is a multisensory learning experience that takes advantage of how the brain learns best! It is musical, personally engaging, and incorporates many “best practices”

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Sing, Sign, Spell and Read! Program

Audio Samples from Our CDs

By admin | Sep 3, 2016 | Comments Off on Audio Samples from Our CDs

Children Learn High-frequency “Heart Words” L-o-v-e-Spells-Love (Download mp3) Thank You (Download mp3) This is My House (Download mp3) The “O” Dance (Download mp3) Sing, Sign, Spell, and Read! CD and Accompanying 32 “I Can Read” Pages. Children learn pink and purple “heart words.” Kindergarten Sight Words Bundle (a.k.a. Nellie Edge Heart Word Program) Authentic literacy […]

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September Songs and Poems to Begin On

By admin | Sep 2, 2016 | Comments Off on September Songs and Poems to Begin On

Free Poetry “I Can Read” Notebook Pages September Songs and Poems to Begin On Click on the poem title to download an 8.5″ x 11″ PDF version. Sunflower Children Sunflower Children Sunflower children Nod to the sun. Summer is over School has begun.                        Author […]

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Weekly Focus: Make Friends with Mother Goose! (Part 1)

By admin | Sep 1, 2016 | Comments Off on Weekly Focus: Make Friends with Mother Goose! (Part 1)

We begin the year with Mother Goose Rhymes to effortlessly give children the rhythm and sounds of the English language and to introduce them to “Just Right: I Can Read!” Little Books which they can use during “Read to Self” Time. Marie Clay’s research reminds us that “Rhymers are readers.” Using classic Mother Goose little books is a research-based approach to simultaneously build phonemic awareness, oral language fluency, reading skills, and delight!

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Choosing Kindergarten Writing and the Common Core

How to Grow Your Kindergarten Writers: Study Kindergarten Writing and the Common Core by Nellie Edge

By admin | Sep 1, 2016 | Comments Off on How to Grow Your Kindergarten Writers: Study Kindergarten Writing and the Common Core by Nellie Edge

Thank You for Choosing Kindergarten Writing and the Common Core: Joyful Pathways to Accelerated Literacy. The program includes Kindergarten Writing and the Common Core manual, a package of 250 blackline templates, and the CD of these templates in color

You asked for a management guide and we listened! This now includes a CCSS progression overview and a yearlong overview of essential, authentic literacy lessons.

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