Learning to Rhyme is one the essential building blocks to learning to read. Some children catch on right away and some need a little extra help, so I want to offer some tips on teaching children to rhyme when they just don’t “get” it. But first… Why is it important? Students that know how to …
What is Phonemic Awareness? I promise, I’ll only bore you with the definition once. Phonemic awareness — the ability to hear, identify, and play with individual sounds (phonemes) in spoken words A child who possesses phonemic awareness can segment sounds in words (for example, pronounce just the first sound heard in the word top) and …
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I’m not sure what your preschool years looked like for you, but the only memory I have of preschool is being punished the day that Santa was suppose to visit our school. I recall sitting on my cot and hearing Santa’s bells and reindeer outside the building where all the other good little boys and …
