Learning to read is one of the most important and celebrated milestones in education. And with good reason! If you can read, you can do anything else you want in life. If we want our kids to become readers for life, though, we have to start teaching them to love reading while they’re young. ThereKeep Reading…
When the Leaf Blew In Printables for Kids
Fall is just around the corner! And that means it’s a great time to break out some classic kids’ books about fall. One of our favorites is “When the Leaf Blew In”, a sweet sequencing story that describes how one leaf blowing into a barn set off a chain reaction that involved all the animals onKeep Reading…
Printable Fall Reading Journal for Second Grade
Reading is a huge part of our homeschooling experience. I’m a bookworm and nothing would make me happier than to raise four little bookworms of my own. In second grade, one of the objectives is for children to learn to retell the main idea and details of a story. So I put together a printableKeep Reading…
4 Easy Ways to Encourage Free Reading with Active Kids
We all know that reading is (probably) the most important skill a child should learn. Without reading, you can’t really do, well, anything. But we don’t just want our kids to read because they have to. We want them to read because they want to. And that means making free reading an important part of everyKeep Reading…
Harry the Dirty Dog Printables for Kids
My kids absolutely love the classic storybook “Harry the Dirty Dog”. We’ve read it so many times that I’m pretty sure they can recite it by heart. Backwards. Reading the story is a wonderful way to practice early literacy and to spend some storytime with the kids, but I wanted to add a few story extensionKeep Reading…
Printable Rhyming Literacy Puzzles for Kids
My little one has taken to reading much quicker than I imagined. I hoarded so many books for learning to read with the specific intention of using them with her. And then she never needed a single one. Go figure. One thing that has been a little difficult for her to grasp, though, is rhyming.Keep Reading…
Free Printable Flashcards: Short Vowel Flashcards
We’re back with another set of free printable flashcards! This time, we’re talking about short vowel sounds. Personally, I didn’t learn to read with phonics and neither did our oldest daughter. Our oldest boy, though, really needed help with phonic sounds, so we focused on long and short vowel sounds pretty early. I thought I’dKeep Reading…
31 Beautiful African American Story Books for Kids
As a mom to four African American children, I’ve been hard pressed to find great kids’ books that feature black characters (at least in our local library). They’re there, but it’s hard to find them, unless you have a few author names to start with. I strongly feel it’s important for my kids to “see” themselvesKeep Reading…
Cozy Bedtime Books for Toddlers
We have a very active little one in our family. She’s running around learning everything she possibly can. But, because she’s so excited about what’s she learning to do, getting her to settle down for bed has become a bit of problem. Every time I walk her into her room at night, she says “IKeep Reading…
Winter Sight Words Flashcards
Winter is quickly approaching and it’s a great time to introduce our newest set of sight word printables: Winter Sight Words Flashcards! Learning sight words is a big part of preschool education. After all, phonics are great, but they don’t always work! Sometimes you just have to memorize the sound a word makes through repetitionKeep Reading…
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