Begin by watching the “Five Little Ducks on the Pond” video on YouTube. There is a short advertisement at the beginning, but the song is so cute that we listened to it multiple times before starting the activity. Watching this video is not required, but it can help add to the experie...
dog, and emotions in general. Using limited vocabulary that rhymes, this is a good story to read both with very young children and those that are learning to read. As well as the winning combination of cat and dog, there is a feel-good message about things being better when done ...
attempt to spell the word smart using the method above but end up with smrt, simply because she only heard the dominant /r/ sound in the /ar/ sound-letter combination. What is phonological awareness? Phonological awareness is the knowledge that there are patterns within words that can aid ...
Help your pre-reader become aware of the smaller sounds that make up words.r Ask whether two words rhyme: “Do ‘cat’and ‘dog’ rhyme?”“Do ‘cat’ and ‘hat’ rhyme?”r Say words with word chunks left out:“What word would we have if you took the ‘hot’ away from...
training plan and followed it to the letter. Patience that our Great Dane insists on pooping in the middle of the driveway where our visitors always walk to enter the house. And, most challenging of all, patience with ourselves for being human, as in “To err is human, to forgive ...
launched the Unlocked Collection, however, with striking designs of animals on each compact, they went even further, donating a full 5% from the collection’s sales. As the name Hourglass would be metaphorically dissonant with the vivid animal illustrations, they opted to use only the letter H....