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There are some first things that a child learns to "read". One of those things is often a stop sign: A lot of people will arg...

I created my Growing Readers lessons and activities so that they could be done with nothing more than some paper, index cards and a pen. Th...

The single most important thing you can do to successfully grow a reader is to read to them. After that, read to them some more! My goal wa...

Once your child has a bank of sight words and can sound out simple CVC words they are ready for some more complex phonics skills. By teachin...

In this post I will tell you about teaching some beginning phonics to your emergent reader. As usual these are things you can do spending l...