Rhyming is a very important pre-reading skill. The ability to identify rhyming words can greatly help kids who are just learning to read. This monster set is a cute and fun way to work on rhyming words. Monster Nonsense Word Rhyming Monsters are one of my favorite themes – especially around Halloween time. While many…
Reading practice with pumpkins is always better. These pumpkin word builder mats are great for the beginning reader to practice short words!I love sneaking in extra reading practice with a bit of a fun game. These pumpkin mats turned into a game and made reading so much more fun. Day 2 of Pumpkin wekk…
Reading fluency and practice can be fun with a great theme. These apple themed CVC words are great for practicing reading with a fun, hands on approach. I love watching kids learn to read but there is no doubt that teaching a child to read can be frustrating. After they develop the understanding of how…
Welcome to an exciting journey of language and colors! In early literacy development, mastering CVC (consonant-vowel-consonant) words is a crucial milestone. Today, we’re going to explore a vibrant approach to CVC word building using rainbow-themed activities. This engaging method combines the power of visual aids and phonics to create a fun and effective learning experience…
Practice reading with the fun buggy CVC short u word sort! Bugs are the name of the game with this fun reading practice and CVC words.We have been working on a lot of fun reading games for Logi-Bear to practice his reading fluency. He is so excited to be a reader that I don’t even…
Learn to read with some simple and fun CVC Heart puzzles! Valentines day learn to read heart puzzles make reading practice a game!Logi-Bear has been hitting some awesome reading milestones (I cried, by the way. Not even going to sugar coat it. My last baby is a reader and he is so incredibly excited about…
Learn to read in space! Or maybe just on Earth but pretending to be an astronaut. Learn to read with a fun space CVC game for short u words. We had a reading breakthrough a few days ago. One of those moments where he couldn’t do it and then he could. Seriously, it was 5…
The second it gets cold, my kids want hot chocolate. Hot chocolate with marshmallows, of course. It doesn’t even get that cold here, but they want hot chocolate with marshmallows any chance they get! I thought it might be fun to do some hot chocolate themed learning, like hot chocolate short vowels! It’s actually going…
How do you get your kids interested and invested in reading? I’ve mentioned it a million times now, but again, Logi-Bear is so close to reading. He wants to read and happily works with me, but I feel like he still needs a bit more work with letter sounds before he’s truly ready. But I…
I’ve never been big on mythological things until I started reading books like Harry Potter and Twilight (yes, I read and loved Twilight. Although, The Host by Stephenie Meyer is far far better). Anyway, after getting into some of these alternate realities I started enjoying reading about the myths and how they started. Vampire’s in…
I love fall, which is rather unfortunate because we don’t have fall in Arizona. However, I’m not past making my own fall through crafts and fun activities! So the idea behind this printable is to sound out the pictures on the leaves and match them to the correct word ending. It’s a practice in…