August 2009

Skills Your Child Needs Before They Learn to Read

Skills Your Child Needs Before They Learn to Read Prior to learning to read, research has proven that a child must possess six skills. Parents can assist in a child’s reading readiness by focusing on these skills early. Begin working with your child when they are very young (birth to two-years-old), and focus on the [...]

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Does Your Home Encourage Learning?

The other day I was looking through my son’s school folder and came upon a great test to determine if your home gives your child both support and encouragement for school learning. Benjamin S. Bloom created a test to determine if your home encourages learning. Read the following statements and for each statement answer using [...]

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Expose Children to Irregular Words Early & Often

Irregular Word Decoding words using phonics is a strategy that teaches children to use letter-sound relationships and word knowledge to translate printed words into spoken language. For example, combining the sounds of the letters d, o, and g (/d/ + /o/ + /g/) result in the word dog. This skill enables children to read words [...]

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Summer Learning – Can be a Day at the Beach

Summer Learning – Can be a Day at the Beach While at the beach this past weekend, my daughter said, Mom come look and to my astonishment she wrote in the sand with a sea shell, “I LOVE MOM.” Of course I kissed her gently and hugged her tightly. After cherishing the moment, I proceeded [...]

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