Happy Uncomplicated Everyday Strategies For Raising A Stone Star Reader
December 06, 2018
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Helping my kids educate a lifelong dear of reading is i affair that I intend nigh a lot but oftentimes on a twenty-four hr catamenia to twenty-four hr catamenia footing I don't experience similar I practise a smashing chore making fourth dimension for reading!
Two of my favorite bloggers, Allie from No Time for Flashcards too Amy from Teach Mama, convey written a mass for busy parents (like me) that is filled alongside simple too slowly tips for raising a reader. (This post contains Amazon Affiliate links).
Today I am going to part i of my favorite tips from their novel book Raising a Rock Star Reader too how I am using it alongside my kids!
Over the past times few weeks Allie too Amy convey been sharing ways to #RaiseAReader over on Instagram each day. Here are a few ideas that I thought were cool...
Once Raising a Rock Star Reader arrived at our solid I sat downwardly too bookmarked a bunch of pages alongside pasty notes. There are thus many simple ideas to effort that are slowly to fit into our busy afternoon schedules.
My three too 4-year-old convey actually been fascinated past times rhyming words lately thus nosotros were drawn to Chapter 4 Sound Check: Playing alongside Sounds. Allie & Amy advert that "Rhyming is hugely helpful for helping kids larn to distinguish sounds inwards words. And rhyming is fun, which makes it a natural motivator for edifice vocabulary."
My absolute favorite tip from the mass (at to the lowest degree for this week) is...
TIP #31 MAKE Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 RHYMING TREASURE BOX!
To brand a rhyming treasure box nosotros got a handbasket too collected several pocket-size toys too position them within the basket! The toys included a rabbit, dog, ball, cat, clock, too a few other things.
Next nosotros grabbed a Sharpie too some pasty notes.
The kids pulled out i toy from the treasure box at a fourth dimension too nosotros wrote downwardly words that rhymed alongside that toy on our pasty notes!
Once nosotros gathered upward loads of rhyming words nosotros stuck them all over the wall!!
To play the rhyming game I would line off i pasty banknote give-and-take too read it to my miss too she would dig into the treasure box to discovery the toy that rhymed alongside that word. I also drew a movie side past times side to almost every give-and-take to aid her shout out upward what the words said.
She got SO EXCITED every fourth dimension that she institute a rhyming give-and-take match! (ie. similar below when she institute walk too clock).
It was fun talking nigh the words too the letters too how some words that rhyme await the same piece others don't!
We played the rhyming treasure box game i time to a greater extent than too again... too again. My 3-year-old fifty-fifty joined in!
After the rhyming treasure box action was a success my miss was anxious for us to effort out some other simple action from the book! Our solely employment immediately is deciding which i to practise first!
Raising a Rock Star Reader is filled alongside 75 quick tips to aid kids educate a lifelong dear of reading!
My 7-year-old got thus excited nigh our rhyming treasure box game that he made our identify unit of measurement a rhyme sorting wall downstairs using all of our pasty words. He mixed them upward too plastered them to i big wall too and thus encouraged my miss to form the words past times sound.
I intend our side past times side finish is to effort out the Rhyme Bingo game that Allie too Amy convey shared over on their blogs!
Raising a Rock Star Reader is going to revolutionize our afternoons immediately because it volition live thus slowly to add together these simple tips too activities into our busy schedule! Although I am creative too am a onetime uncomplicated schoolhouse teacher, somedays I but desire to line out a mass too convey mortal else come upward up alongside the ideas for me!
Here are a few things that I dear about Raising a Rock Star Reader...
- Allie too Amy explicate reading too their reading strategies using slowly to empathise language... non professional person jargon!
- All of the activities are simple too don't require really many materials.
- The mass is thin, quick to read, too the tabular array of contents is thus slowly to use!
- Allie too Amy included mass lists for dissimilar ages of kids!!! I dear mass lists because I am e'er looking to add together novel awesome books to our identify unit of measurement library that are recommended past times people I honor too admire!
- The dorsum of the mass includes some literacy apps too websites to banking concern check out! I intend it is difficult to sift through all of the dissimilar apps out there, thus dear that Allie too Amy are sharing their favorite resources alongside us!
- The mass is thus comprehensive too useful! The activities too ideas are thus creative nonetheless practical too! I dear that in that place are 75 of them (and in all likelihood fifty-fifty more). You don't convey to live a professional person educator to live able to figure them out!
You tin pre-order Raising a Rock Star Reader NOW too the mass comes out side past times side calendar week on Nov 10th!!
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You tin follow along on Instagram for to a greater extent than awesome #RaiseAReader tips HERE: allie: @AllieNoFlashCards / amy: @teachmama1
Do you lot convey whatever other favorite simple reading strategies you lot similar to purpose alongside your kids? If you lot effort out this rhyming treasure box activity, say me how it goes!!
Find to a greater extent than of our favorite reading strategies too resources on our Reading Activities Pinterest Board.
Disclosure: Allie too Amy sent me a gratuitous advanced reader's edition re-create of their novel mass to read too part alongside you! I was non compensated for this post. All opinions are mine.