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Reading When Children Don't Know The Word Lessons Learnt Journal (1)

Reading: When Children Don’t Know The Word

By Pauline On May 28, 2013 · 7 Comments · In Activities for Children, English, Infants School (5 - 8 years) Activities, More, Primary School (9 - 12 years) Activities, Printables, Reading, Subjects, Work
  As a teacher, one of the most exciting (and in my case, possibly frantic) tasks, is setting up a classroom. How should the environment be set up to assist learning? What should be constantly available for students? I think visual prompts to assist reading skills certainly belong to a section of the classroom.   Reading: [...]
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Reading Games: Mr Tongue’s House

By Pauline On February 7, 2013 · 3 Comments · In Activities for Children, English, Infants School (5 - 8 years) Activities, Pre school, Reading, Subjects, Work
  Last week, I shared four guidelines and a recommended sequence for introducing letters. Today we will continue with a great reading game that focuses on the ever important, yet often overlooked, skill of phonemic awareness.     Reading Games: {Phonemic Awareness} Mr Tongue’s House   I’m so excited to share one of my favourite [...]
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How to Teach Reading & Writing: Letters

By Pauline On January 31, 2013 · 12 Comments · In Activities for Children, English, Handwriting, Infants School (5 - 8 years) Activities, Kids & Writing, Pre school, Reading, Subjects, Work
  I love it when my kids pleasantly surprise me; (the other type of surprise, like doing a number two with no nappy on, I can do without). Pleasant surprises, like the day I heard my kids singing their ABC’s all by themselves, that brought a smile to my face. More recently, Mr N and [...]
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Colours: Vocabulary for Beginning Readers

By Pauline On November 28, 2012 · Add Comment · In Activities for Children, English, Infants School (5 - 8 years) Activities, Pre school, Reading, Subjects, Toddler Activities, Work
  I don’t consider myself mathematically inclined. However, during my stint at uni for my teaching degree, a professor once said this about reading: “Reading equals decoding times (x) comprehension. Note, reading does not equal decoding and (+) comprehension. If you can’t decode, you can’t read. If you can’t comprehend what you’re decoding, you’re not [...]
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