fluency

10 tips for read-aloud learning

March 6, 2012

Hip, hip HOORAY! This week has a little gem of a day hiding inside — World Read Aloud Day! March 7th is World Read Aloud Day, and I stand firmly behind the idea that every child, every person should be able to read.  And who wouldn’t, right? And I’m a huge fan of reading aloud–with [...]

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learning during read-alouds: improving fluency

November 16, 2011

Fluency is a tricky–but totally important–element of reading comprehension. No. Question. About it. And though research is funny about fluency’s roll in reading comprehension, I’m a firm believer in the fact that in order to fully understand what is being read, it must be read fluently. Lately, fluency has been my focus for Maddy and [...]

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mom’s homeroom: ideas, advice, videos, crazy-cool blogs

September 21, 2011

I am over the moon to share some exciting news: I’ve been working with MSN and Frosted Mini-Wheats for the last few months, writing as a Featured Blogger and doing some video pieces for Mom’s Homeroom! Mom’s Homeroom is an online resource designed to help parents ‘empower their children to succeed in school’–something I feel [...]

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gettting ready for kindergarten: summertime prep

July 16, 2011

We’re almost exactly at the mid-summer point, and before we know it, the new school year will be upon us. Ahhhhhhh! So with my sweet Owen heading off to the wilds of Kindergarten this year (wah!), I thought it would be worthwhile to share a few things we’re doing over here to get our big [...]

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learning during read-alouds: 5 things never to say to emerging readers

June 26, 2011

Sometimes it’s very easy for teachers and parents to feel impatient with emerging readers. It’s hard to listen to kids sound out every word on a page and get through only five words a minute. It’s hard to know what to do when kids insist on reading books that aren’t the ‘right fit’ –either too [...]

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celebrate Read Across America Day (with a free book from Readeo!)

March 2, 2011

Happy Read Across America Day! Hopefully you’ll take some time out of the day to share a book (or two) with a loved one, but why not step out of your comfort zone a little this week and try something new? Take your family’s reading up a notch? Try something a little different as far [...]

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new for us friday: magnetic poetry (and giveaway!)

November 26, 2010

I have been a huge fan of magnetic poetry, ever since my college pals and I had a set on the fridge of our off-campus house a lifetime ago. Our poetry was. . . well, mostly just for a good laugh. So when Maddy received the Magnetic Poetry Really Big Word set as a gift [...]

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new for us friday: first vlog! (and flip minoHD giveaway)

June 4, 2010

I’ve thought about doing this for ages, and now I finally have a reason. This New For Us Friday marks a very new–and very scary first for me: my first-ever vlog. I’ve got reason to do it, too–I’m sharing some pretty cool ways of using video recordings to enhance your kiddos’ early literacy learning, and [...]

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money poems, money songs

May 14, 2010

Maddy’s been learning about money in school. Pennies, nickels, dimes–and she’s been talking 1′s, 5′s, and 10′s like nobody’s business. Add her big half-dollars from her Pap and the ever-busy Tooth Fairy, and Maddy’s money jars are growing along her knowledge of coins and money. So today, while she was home from school with a [...]

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poem, poem, the cookie jar poem

November 19, 2009

For the last few days, Maddy has been bouncing around the house, reciting poems from her kindergarten class. Lately, she’s taken to “The Runaway Cookies” which is a seven-stanza poem about naughty cookies who escaped from their cookie jar one night. The cool thing about this poem, thanks to her teacher, is that it was [...]

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