Keep your family learning projects joyful, active, meaningful, and real. Keep the love of learning alive during the summer. Make Homework Fun by Nellie Edge
How Do Master Kindergarten Teachers Close the Reading Achievement Gap over the Summer?
Updated April 2024 10 Tips for Success: Kindergarten Book Lovers Keep Reading All Summer Long! Resources for summer learning! Photos used with permission from parents and educators 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 […]
How to Create a Culture of Book Lovers
The science of reading and decades of best practices research support a comprehensive approach to reading. Here are 10 proven strategies that build a culture of book lovers!
Earn Graduate Credits: Make Best Writing Practices Routine in Your Classroom
Download our Big TpT Writing FREEBIE from Nellie Edge Kindergarten! Let this FREEBIE inspire you to study authentic K-1 writing strategies via distance learning this summer with the step-by-step 6-hour MasterClass workshop Photos of children and their art used with permission from parents and teachers. You’ll see the result of powerful writing instruction from these […]
Favorite Children’s Books of 2016
Favorite New Children’s Books of 2016 Selected by Kindergarten Teacher and Book Lover Nellie Edge
Favorite New Children’s Books of 2016
Favorite New Children’s Books of 2016 Selected by Kindergarten Teacher and Book Lover Nellie Edge
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”