I sought decodable readers to practice the “short a” sound. Our library has a collection of phonic boxes, many with popular characters. Unfortunately, many of them are not, in fact, decodable for beginning readers because they contain so many words that beginners cannot yet sound out. So, which ones are ok for beginners? For this […]
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A 0-100 (or sometimes 1-100) chart is one of several representations that are often used in early math education. There are lots of activities you can do with a 100 chart – and many people offering 100-chart printables. If you’re looking for a free 0-100 chart, make sure that you use one where the numbers
Matching activities are popular for toddlers. For instance, the Lovevery play kit for months 19-21 has a match pictures activity (e.g. matching the image of a butterfly to another image of a butterfly). The kit for months 22-24 has an activity to match animal figures to pictures of animals (e.g., a cow figure to a
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Conversations I recently had led me to a dive into the ‘gifted child’ literature. Are there ways how to make a student a gifted child, i.e. raise a child’s IQ? Conversely, are there things parents should avoid because they lower their children’s IQ? I learned some surprising things. Before we start, ‘gifted’ can mean different
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