Category Archives: Beginning Readers
Conferences The Last Few Weeks of School? Really?
There are 21 days left of first grade. This means that we have been in school for 158 days!! Wow! My 4th quarter interims went home last week and I will soon begin working on the final report card of first … Continue reading
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Books For Boys
I love this time of the school year when reading is really clicking with the children, they enjoy reading and will pick up a book to read on their own! There are thousands of books written with the young girl … Continue reading
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Dr. Seuss in First Grade
Our school, along with thousands of other schools across America has been celebrating Dr. Seuss’ birthday week by reading many of his famous books. The children love the books and can’t stop listening to the non-sensical way that Dr. Seuss … Continue reading
Visualizing
Now that your first grader is almost halfway through first grade, we will be working on a reading skill called Visualizing. It teaches a child to create pictures in his/her mind when he/she is reading. Your child will learn to … Continue reading
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Babies and Reading
I was on a plane a few weeks ago and observed a young mother trying desperately to teach her toddler (about 18 months) how to read. Yes, read! While struggling to keep the small girl in her lap, this young … Continue reading
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E books
Hundreds of children’s books written in all genres can be heard on the New York Public Library’s website. This site has hundreds of age appropriate books that your beginning reader can listen to while he/she follows the text and enjoys … Continue reading
Main Idea
Kindergartners have been working on the main idea of a story all year long. In Kindergarten we help them to think and learn to narrow their thoughts to include only the main idea. When these Kindergartners go to first grade, … Continue reading
Use Your Local Library
Summer has arrived early in Virginia with today’s temperatures reaching well over 90 degrees! This kind of weather not only makes me think of being outdoors, it also makes me think of being indoors trying to keep cool. One way … Continue reading
Parts of a Book
Kindergarten children have learned how to properly take care of a book, especially a book from the library. They know to keep the book clean, to use a bookmark and not turn over the corner of the page and they … Continue reading
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Sentence Starters – Part 3
I have written about simple sentence starters twice before in my blog, October 26 – http://kindergartenteacherclaire.wordpress.com/2009/10/26/ and again on October 27 http://kindergartenteacherclaire.wordpress.com/2009/10/27/ Out of all of the 250 blog posts that I have written, the topic of Sentence Starters is … Continue reading
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