comprehension
a scared and lonely bear: predicting
Predicting is one of the easiest comprehension strategies to use with emerging readers, and like many of these important components of early literacy, predicting can be taught even before children ...
poem, poem, the cookie jar poem
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 ...
every picture tells a story
The Gardener, by Sarah Stewart and illustrations by David Small, is honestly one of the most beautiful children’s books I have ever read. The story takes place during the Depression ...
a good-night book walk
Tonight when I returned from tutoring, I went up to say goodnight to Maddy, and she was drowsily looking at a few of the million books we lugged home from ...
play-doh with noodles, please & thinking out loud
On this lazy, grey Sunday, Maddy requested that Play-doh be the activity of the morning. After pancakes and playtime in the living room, we pulled out all of the still-usable ...
