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8 Great Vocabulary Activities and Games for Building Word Understanding

Want to help your students have fun while building word understanding? Use these FUN vocabulary activities and games to make learning new vocab words enjoyable for your kiddos. I promise you– the more fun they have while learning vocabulary, the more the new words will STICK! Why is it so important to build their vocabulary word understanding? The more words they know… the better they ... Read More about 8 Great Vocabulary Activities and Games for Building Word Understanding

6 Fun Multisensory Learning Activities to Supercharge Your Reading Instruction

Discover the science-backed effectiveness of multisensory learning activities in helping struggling readers excel! These 6 learning activities will engage multiple senses at once and help your readers retain more learning while having WAY more fun! If there is one reading instructional strategy you need to try, it is incorporating multisensory learning activities into your reading ... Read More about 6 Fun Multisensory Learning Activities to Supercharge Your Reading Instruction

5 Tips for Beginning Readers: The Best Ways to Grow Strong Reading Skills from the Start

Discover five practical reading tips for teaching beginning readers! These secrets help you start your beginning reading instruction in the most effective ways to prepare your kiddos to QUICKLY become excellent readers. Are you ready to help your beginning readers dive into the exciting world of reading? Personally, I think that is the absolute best part of teaching reading. Seeing ... Read More about 5 Tips for Beginning Readers: The Best Ways to Grow Strong Reading Skills from the Start

7 Fun Ways to Prevent the Summer Slide and Avoid Summer Learning Loss

Don’t let your student fall behind! Prevent the summer slide by doing these simple activities that help avoid summer learning loss. Summer review doesn’t have to be painful and full of homework battles. Whether it’s for summer homeschool, summer school activities, or just sending a review packet home at the end of the school year–there are simple, painless, and FUN things you can do with ... Read More about 7 Fun Ways to Prevent the Summer Slide and Avoid Summer Learning Loss

The 7 Best Ways to Teach Multi-Syllabic Words to Struggling Readers

Looking to help your struggling readers make the jump to reading multi-syllabic words? Here are the 7 best strategies and activities for how to teach kids multisyllabic words without getting overwhelmed! It is SO exciting when blending simple cvc words starts to click for students. Once they learn how to use phonics to decode words, they make rapid progress and you’re thinking: “Great! ... Read More about The 7 Best Ways to Teach Multi-Syllabic Words to Struggling Readers