Teaching
It’s not about what we taught them; it’s about what they learned.
Teach Your Child to Read Blog Series
If you want a quick overview for how to teach your child to read, check out my blog: Teach Your Child to Read in 5 Simple Steps, but if you’d like an in depth tutorial that shows you how science, research, and my experience as a teacher and mom prompted me to create this reading program that can guide parents (or teachers) to teach any child how to read, then check out this blog series.
#1-Oral Language Development Lays the Foundation for Reading
Oral language development is one of the most important aspects…
#2-How to Engage Your Baby or Young Child with Reading
When should you start reading to your child? The answer is...right…
#3-Learning How to Read Begins with the ABCs
Learning the ABCs lays the foundation for all future reading…
#4-Memorizing Words (Before Sounding Them Out) Leads to Reading
While teaching my own five children how to read, I have discovered…
#5-Building Vocabulary with Numbers, Colors, and Shapes
By teaching children numbers, colors, and shapes, it will give…
#6-Teaching Phonics with Three Letter Word Families
Phonics is a crucial part of learning how to read and involves…
#7-Unlock the Final Stages of Reading with Advanced Phonemic Awareness
If you teach letter names and letter sounds really really well…
#8-Reading Comprehension Strategies Lead to Independent Readers
When you interact with books before, during, and after reading…
#9-Reinforcing Reading with Writing
Learning how to write is the final step to becoming literate!…
Everything You Need to Know to Teach Your Child to Read at a Young Age
How DO children learn to read? While raising my own five children,…
Reading
So much of learning to read is about laying the foundation with pre-reading skills and activities. The oral language development of a baby is what sets the structure for background knowledge and schema that children will take into their journey of learning how to read. These blogs will help you to ensure that your child has the literacy foundation needed to learn how to read easy and naturally.
Teach Your Toddler How to Read
By following these steps and using these resources, you can teach…
Teach Your Baby How to Read
I wouldn't have thought it was possible unless I tried it with…
Teach Your Child to Read in 5 Simple Steps
Teaching your child to read can be easy and fun, especially if…
How Children Really Learn to Read…in 10 Steps
When should children learn how to read? Do we have to teach children…
Coloring Over Words Pre-Reading Activity
I love getting out large pieces of paper, writing words and pictures…
10 Best Resources for Teaching the ABCs
Learning the ABCs (letter names AND letter sounds) is the bedrock…
The Importance of Learning the ABCs
Learning the ABCs is something so intrinsic to childhood that…
Best Books for Babies
These are the books we have loved reading with our four children when they were babies.
How to Raise Children Who WANT to Read
Teachers, librarians, parents, politicians...we're all guilty…
Popsicle Puppets for Pre-Reading and Imaginative Play
I love making simple popsicle stick puppets for my young children…
How to Teach the ABCs with Magnet Letters
Teaching letter names and letter sounds is a crucial component…
Environment
When you set up an environment conducive to learning, children can interact with it and learn on their own. This Montessori approach to learning allows children to become independently motivated and teaches them that learning is fun!
