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DUPLO Rhyming Word Matching
Rhyming is one of the first pre-reading skills we can model with young children. And it’s fun to do. Songs and rhyming books are a must with young kids. So are rhyming games, like you can find in our...
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LEGO Handwriting Mats – Read, Build, and Write
Does your child think that the lines on the handwriting paper are just suggestions, like my Kindergartner? Then, these DUPLO and LEGO brick Handwriting Mats {FREE download at the end of this post}...
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Word Problem Vocabulary Sorts {FREE Vocabulary Cards}
Word problems. Just the sound of that term may bring back bad memories. I know it does for me. As an elementary student, I despised word problems with ever fiber of my body. Why? Because, as a...
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DUPLO Beginning Letter Sound Matching
Phonics. It begins with letter sounds and developmentally speaking, the beginning letter sound is typically what kids hear and recognize first {pun intended}. You can see this in kids’ invented...
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Learning the Alphabet – FREE Letter R Printable Pack
We’re on Letter R this week as we post our free ABC printable packs from Learning the Alphabet in order of the alphabet. I do not, however, introduce the alphabet in ABC order. And if you don’t either,...
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FREE Short Vowel Playdough Mats {CVC Words}
Is your child working on beginning and ending sounds or short vowel sounds? Maybe you have a small group in your classroom that needs some extra work on short vowels? Then these FREE Short Vowel...
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Short Vowel Activity Pack
Most all the printables you can find here at This Reading Mama are free. I’m a little addicted to making them and have two pages for our free printables: Preschool Printables and Elementary Printables....
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Learning the Alphabet: FREE Letter S Printable Pack
Welcome back to Learning the Alphabet, printable packs designed to help you teach letters and letter sounds to kids. Whether your child is 2 or 3, 6 or 7, these printable packs contains hands-on,...
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Long Vowel Spelling Game (CVCe Words) – Spin and Spell
If you’ve read my blog for very long, you know that I believe strongly in taking the time for spelling instruction. Yeah, that dreaded word. Spelling. But spelling doesn’t have to be boring and dry. It...
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Sounding Out Short Vowel Words {CVC Unfold and Blend}
Many times, kids struggle with sounding out short vowel words. Even if the words are only three letters {also known as CVC words}, it can be very laborious. Sometimes, it’s because they aren’t...
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Color the Short Vowel Sound
MBug {age 4} has taken an interest in listening for the middle sound in words, thanks to our Short Vowel Clip Cards. And seeing that the girl is quite addicted to coloring {the reason for our color by...
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Word Family Matching Game
This year, MBug {4 years old} and I are moving slowly through Reading the Alphabet. Some new family dynamics have made it difficult for me to go any faster and that’s okay. We just work it in when we...
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FREE Long a-Patterned Word Sort {ai and ay}
We sing a lot at our house! MBug {almost 3 years old} especially LOVES music. As we were singing, Rain, Rain; Go Away the other day together, it got me thinking. Rain has the AI pattern and away...
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FREE Rainy Day PreK Pack
Last year, I created some rain printables for my then 3 year old son. This year, I’ve updated those, added a few more and I now have a Rainy Day PreK Pack! This pack is similar in activities to my...
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Long Vowel Word Wall Review Sort {FREEBIE!}
Just a quick freebie this morning: this is a long vowel word wall review sort I created for ALuv {currently end of 1st grade} to work on today. It is a long vowel sort using only sight words found on...
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Alphabet Review Pack {Updated & Expanded}
Do you have a child who needs a little alphabet review? That’s what this Alphabet Review pack is for! Get kids reviewing and learning in fun and hands-on ways that will get them thinking about letter...
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Missing Addends Recording Page {FREE Printable}
It’s been review time over the last couple of weeks for ALuv {currently at the end of 1st grade}. One of the activities I wanted to drive home in as many ways as I could was the relationship between...
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FREE Summer PreK Pack
It’s only May, but summer is right around the corner! I’ve been working hard this week on creating a Summer PreK Pack. There are 14 activities included in this FREE pack that are very similar in...
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My ABC’s of Summer {a FREE Printable Journal}
A couple of weeks ago, I posted my Top 10 Ways to Keep Kids Reading and Writing this summer for the Kid Blogger Network School’s Out Series. In it, I mentioned encouraging kids to keep a summer...
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Storytelling through Classical Music {FREE Printable Included}
This is a sponsored post by TakeLessons.com. Please read my full disclosure policy. After getting my undergrad degree in music, I had the privilege of teaching music at a Christian school for a few...
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