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raising word conscious kids: a chat with Mando and Rosita of Sesame Street
I can’t stress enough the importance of raising word-conscious kids. Words are everywhere, all around us. Why not capitalize on the learning opportunities available to us everywhere we turn? If ...
how to get your kids started with texting: texting 101
Texting is big. For tweens, it’s really big. It’s like the coolest thing ever. And everyone is doing it (or so they think), and so Maddy has asked ...
5 ways to get your kids psyched for summer reading
Believe it—summer is around the corner. Woo-hoo! Around the corner! As in like just a few weeks away! It’s May! Pools open in May. Weather warms in May. Swim team ...
3 all-time best games to play with sight words
What games do you play with sight words? Sight words are words that we all need to be able to read quickly and automatically in order to be strong readers, ...
nursery rhymes old and new: listening, learning and comparing
We’re on a crazy nursery rhyme kick over here. But instead of sticking to our more modern nursery rhyme poems and calling it a day, we branched out a bit ...
nursery rhymes: powerful poems for fluency and more
April is National Poetry Month! Did you know that? It is, and it’s not too late to jump in on the celebration! We have been doing little things over here ...
reading tips and more: scholastic raise a reader blog
It’s been an incredibly exciting 2013 so far, with all of the awesome going on over at we teach and the sweet redesign over here at teach mama. But another ...
learn through play eBook bundle: spring & summer fun learning
*Though the Learn Through Play eBook Bundle special is over, you may still purchase these eBooks at any time! Just click through to the ones you are most interested in, ...
helping kids use PowerPoint for presentations and serious learning fun
It’s Spring Fair time, Science Share time, Reader’s Tea, Poetry Share, and International Night time at schools all around the country. Kids are sharing their learning, and they’re learning about ...
5 min reading tricks for raising rockstar readers
It’s here. My first eBook on reading and literacy and all that stuff I really, really love. And I’m totally psyched. 5 min reading tricks for raising rockstar readers. There ...
texting as a learning tool: reading, spelling, composing
My kids think texting is so cool. They think cell phones are cool. They think cell phones are so cool that they still argue over who gets to have our ...
