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Writing Success from the First Week of Kindergarten! Tuesday July 26, 2016 Fill out the following registration form and submit payment directly and securely from our website. You will receive a confirmation letter with details for the workshop. If registering for another teacher, you are responsible to forward the confirmation letter. [wufoo username=”sdsoregon” formhash=”micbpf318bt2ev” autoresize=”true” height=”987″ […]
Read MoreFree Poetry “I Can Read” Notebook Pages February Themes of Love and Friendship Click on the poem title to download an 8.5″ x 11″ PDF version. A Little Wheel Turning (American Folk Song) There’s a little wheel a- turning in my heart, There’s a little wheel a- turning in my heart, In my heart —, […]
Read MoreFree Poetry “I Can Read” Notebook Pages March: It’s Spring and the World is Full of Pussy Willows, Daffodils, and Leprechauns Click on the poem title to download an 8.5″ x 11″ PDF version. Spring is ComingSpring is coming Spring is coming How do you think I know?Birds are singing.I know it must be so. […]
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Kindergarten Book Lovers Keep Reading for Family Fun All Summer Long! Powerful kindergarten literacy gains can easily be lost over the summer, especially by our emerging readers and writers who are still building foundational literacy skills. Wise kindergarten teachers have developed strategies to continue supporting family reading fun over the summer. Invite children to recite […]
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ABC Phonics: Sing, Sign, and Read! Family Reference Chart Turn this Family Reference Chart into refrigerator art! Consider laminating each chart and attaching with magnetic tape: Parents love this gift. Our ABC Phonics: Sing, Sign, and Read! program makes it easy for parents to be partners in ABC and phonics learning. The quality online instructional […]
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Take Advantage of How the Brain Learns Best! Why We Use Sign Language and Fingerspelling Signing Songs and Fingerspelling Accelerates Early Literacy Skills. Signing songs and manual fingerspelling engage the whole child in joyful learning. They add a kinesthetic memory connection for acquiring new skills and develop the small muscles necessary for writing. Singing and signing […]
Read MoreFavorite ABC Books for Kindergarten Literacy Selected by Nellie Edge and Colleagues “ABC Phonics: Sing, Sign, and Read! by Nellie Edge. Sign2Me Publishers, 2010. See ABC Phonics teacher support Superhero ABC by Bob McLeod. HarperCollins, 2006. Max’s ABCby Rosemary Wells. Puffin, 2006. Puddle’s ABC (Toot & Puddle) by Hollie Hobbie. Little, Brown and Company, 2000. […]
Read MoreFavorite Children’s Books 2015: Favorite New Books Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World’s Most Famous Bearby Lindsay Mattick. Little Brown Books, 2015 Raindrops Rollby April Pulley Sayre. Simon & Schuster/Beach Lane, 2015 Hippos Are Huge!by Jonathan London. Candlewick Press, 2015 Last Stop on Market Street by Matt de la Peña. Putnam, 2015 Floatby […]
Read MoreFavorite Children’s Books 2014: Favorite New Books The Pigeon Needs a Bath! by Mo Willems, 2014 (Author/illustrator study: teach speech bubbles!) Mama Built a Little Nest Mama Built a Little Nestby Jennifer Ward and Steve Jenkins, 2014(Bird study) Baby Bear by Kadir Nelson, 2014(Pair with National Geographic Readers: Polar Bears by Laura Marsh) Have You […]
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in the Classroom and at Home Every child deserves to own a growing collection of books that they can sing and read with pleasure and delight. These cherished reminders of the child’s developing reading skills will be kept for years to come. Teachers are encouraged to have volunteers reproduce enough of the Little Books so […]
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