The curriculum framework offered here is a model for Common Core planning and implementation that can be adapted to K-12 in self-contained or departmental settings.
The transition from one grade to the next can be especially challenging for the student with an autism spectrum disorder. However, these students can more easily make this shift if careful planning and preparation occurs. Get tips for facilitating a smooth transition.
Riddles are an excellent way for kids to learn how to really listen to the sounds of words, understand that some words have more than one meaning, and how to manipulate words. And riddles are fun — a good incentive for thinking about words and reading.
Blending (combining sounds) and segmenting (separating sounds) are phonological awareness skills that are necessary for learning to read. Developing your child’s phonological awareness is an important part of developing your child as a reader. Learn how working on phonological awareness can be fun and easy below.
Play is the way kids learn, so why not play with language! Young children delight in rhymes, hidden letters, and tongue twisters. Older kids love plays on meaning and the silly things that can happen when punctuation is missing. Use one or more of these recommended books for kids ages 0-9 to introduce children to word play fun.
No matter if they rhyme or not, celebrate National Poetry Month in April — and throughout the year with these and other poems! Discover many more related titles with Book Finder.
There’s something for every age and every occasion when words and language are used to make poems. There are goings-on afterschool, birds and birdsong, emerging friendships, changing seasons, and much more. All it takes to delight in poetry every day is to keep a “poem in the pocket of your mind!” Discover many more related titles with Book Finder.
Sharing poetry with kids is a great way to highlight language. Poems offer humor, interesting words, tongue twisters, alliteration, and opportunities for choral reading (reading together). Find out how to plan a lively and fun family poetry jam!
It seems fitting that April is National Poetry Month. Poetry helps readers and listeners see things in a fresh way during a season when things undergo a renewal. Read poetry with children of all ages, about families, about nature, about the unexpected. For as you share poetry, as Carl Sandburg has said, remember that with poetry you’re stuffing “a backpack of invisible keepsakes.” Discover many more related titles with Book Finder.
Celebrate poetry with this lyrical selection of readings. You’ll find Mother Goose, alphabet poems in Spanish and English, an ode to Harlem — even a rhyming dog. The playful language in all of these recommended books for kids ages 0-9 makes for great read-aloud fun. Discover many more related titles with Book Finder.
