Click here to read 12 Phonics Activities for Kids Learning to Read on Hands On As We Grow® Teaching your child to read can be tricky when you don’t necessarily know what to do first. I often get asked from readers what they should work on first. To be honest, I’ve always worked on letter recognition first with my kids. However, I have been told (repeatedly) from teachers that they should be learning letter phonics first. I find this very hard to do if the child doesn’t know the letter, so I’m learning to pair these goals together. Plus, phonics activities are hard to come by (and hard to come up with)! 3 Quick Steps to Get Your Child Started...
How to Teach Common and Proper Nouns: Resources, Games, & Scavenger Hunt Looking for common and proper nouns activities? I used to feel like common and proper nouns were one of the most gray areas to learn for my students. Country isn’t capitalized, but the names of them are. General directions aren’t capitalized, but street names are. Some days it felt like I was teaching some kind of riddle! It wasn’t until I started focusing on more long term exposure and using a variety of teaching methods that I could finally see their understanding of common and proper nouns start to break through into their writing. Isn’t that every teacher’s dream? Never having to correct another capitalization error again? I...
One of the biggest challenges in a diverse classroom is meeting the diverse needs of the students. An inclusive classroom promotes the learning of children with special needs alongside students’ learning without special needs. As innovative and thoughtful as it may sound, it’s far more challenging. However, the results are fruitful. Students with special needs have benefited dramatically from inclusive education. They’ve also been discovered to encourage more potent communication abilities and relentlessly find their inherent potential. Image Source While technology has made everyone more accessible, it has benefited the education community at large. Here we aren’t referring to online education. There’s no denying that the online system forever altered the way students obtained an education. However, technology has also...
Want to help make back-to-school a little bit easier for teachers and students in 2021? Amid a year promising to be anything but normal, one small thing the average person can do is help fund a teacher’s wishlist, especially one that focuses on building an inclusive, powerful classroom library. Thanks to the Gates Foundation and their partnership with DonorsChoose, every project that receives a contribution today will be matched at 50%. In other words, if you donate $10 to a classroom, your impact is really $15. This helps speed up projects earning a fully-funded status and waves of classrooms around the U.S. meeting new needs. Why DonorsChoose? The organization requires teachers to develop the project they wish to see fulfilled,...
Samsung didn't only use its mid-August Unpacked event to reveal new foldables - the Z Fold 3 and Z Flip 3 being the main highlights, along with the Buds 2 wireless in-ears - but also a pair of new smartwatches, the Galaxy Watch 4 and Galaxy Watch 4 Classic.With updated Wear OS software, a more powerful processor, higher resolution displays, and lower pricing than the outgoing Watch 3 series, it's safe to say Samsung has strong new contenders for the Wear OS smartwatch crown.Ahead of the Unpacked event, we got to handle these wrist-worn fitness trackers at Samsung KX - the Korean company's London-based showroom, in the capital's King's Cross area - to see how the range has evolved. Watch 4...
