If you're teaching your child to read at home, you might think you need fancy supplies or specialized materials like teachers have in their classrooms...but that's not true at all!

All you need to teach your child is a plan, a whiteboard, and a marker.

Keep listening for 5 ways you can use a whiteboard to teach your preschool, pre-k, or kindergarten little one to read at home. If you'd rather watch these activities in action, click here to watch the video!

I've also linked my longer videos for each of these activities so you can dive into them even deeper:

► Visual Drill Video

► Auditory Drill Video

►Blending Drill Video

► Word Chain Video

►Dictation Video

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When teaching little ones to read in preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten, you need to give them plenty of time and opportunities to practice reading words that follow the phonics skills they've already learned.

This means you can't hand them any children's book and ask them to read it...you need to be VERY careful to choose books that only have words they can decode on their own.

That's why you need decodable books. You can learn more about decodable books in this video.

Keep listening to hear about 3 sets of decodable books I recommend for your beginning reader to practice their reading skills at home.

Would you prefer to SEE the books, including clips of a 5 year old reading them? Click here to watch this information as a video!

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Links from this Episode:

► Set#1: Toddlers Can Read

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► Set #2: Charge Mommy (Charge into Reading)

Follow Brooke on Instagram: @chargemommybooks

► Set #3: BOB Decodable Books

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Handwriting is a crucial skill to focus on in preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten. It's MUCH easier to teach this skill at home than for a teacher to teach this skill to a class of 20+ students.

Our goal as parents should be to teach our kids the correct pencil strokes to write each letter fluently. This will help writing become more automatic as well as ensure our kids are not "drawing" letters based on their own interpretation.

This episode discusses how to teach the letters c, o, a, d, g, q, & s using the "Magic C" letter formation.

To watch me form these letters, please check out this video.

You can also read ALL about handwriting in this blog post.

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As parents of young children, we know how important it is to work on reading skills in preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten.

But we also want to make learning to read FUN and JOYFUL for our kids.

The best way to accomplish both of these goals is by incorporating LOTS of senses into your reading instruction at home!

Keep listening for 3 easy-to-implement ideas to incorporate more multisensory learning into reading time at home so your child learns to read effectively!

If you want to see these ideas in action with a kindergartner, click here to watch the video!

► Brainspring Magic Sand

► Download a FREE set of Animal Alphabet Cards here!

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As parents of young children, we know how important it is to work on literacy skills with our kids. We want to teach them according to the Science of Reading so they grow into strong readers and spellers.

In order to do this, we need to consistently review past skills and work on reading a little bit every day, and one of the easiest ways to do this is with a Blending Binder.

Instead of printing out a million flashcards, you can create a blending binder for your preschool, pre-k, or kindergarten child to practice their reading skills easily so they become a strong reader!

Keep listening for all the details, and make sure you download the FREE Letters here.

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► Click here to download FREE End of the Year Literacy Goals for Kindergarten

As parents & teachers of preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten littles, it's crucial that we understand how children learn to read and spell words if we want to teach them correctly and effectively based on the Science of Reading.

The 4 Part Processing Model (based on Seidenberg & McClelland, 1989) was adapted by Dr. Louisa Moats and Dr. Carol Tolman and is a simplified model that shows how kids decode words.

Keep listening to understand this model and why it's important when teaching your child to read.

>>> Would you rather watch this information as a video so you can see the visual representation of this model? Click here!

Looking for the LINKS mentioned in this episode?

► FREE Sound Mats

► Phonological and Phonemic Awareness Playlist

► FREE Phonological Awareness Cheat Sheet

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As parents & teachers of preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten littles, we spend SO much time helping our children learn to read...but are we forgetting about making sure they can write, too?

Not only do we want students to write and spell words with phonics patterns they've learned, but we also want to make sure they can READ their own writing back to us!

Keep listening for an example of a 5 year old's writing to see which phonics patterns he's learned, and which ones he's still working on.

If you'd like to see an example of this writing, click here to watch the video of this episode.

Looking for the LINKS mentioned in this episode?

► FREE End of the Year Literacy Goals for Kindergarten

► What should my child know by the END of kindergarten?

► Digraphs vs. Blends

► Open vs. Closed Syllables

► Sight Words vs. High-Frequency Words

► The Heart Word Method

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One of the biggest challenges children face when learning to read is being afraid to make mistakes.

Many preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten students are scared to take risks when it comes to reading and spelling, and it slows down their academic progress.

As parents, we want to encourage children to have a growth mindset, and one of the ways we can do that is by modeling mistakes and how we think through an answer. 

Keep listening to hear how to model mistakes during spelling so your child feels safe to make their own mistakes on their literacy journey, too. 

►If you'd prefer to watch this example as a video, click here!

► Click here to join the WAITLIST for my reading course, P.L.A.Y. for Reading Success

► My FAVORITE book to teach growth mindset: The Magical Yet (*This is an affiliate link. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases)

► Click here to download FREE End of the Year Literacy Goals for Kindergarten

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Has this ever happened to you...

You think your child should know how to read a simple 2 letter word, but when you ask them, they get it wrong.

Why does this happen?

Children learn to read words in a very specific order.

As parents of kindergarteners, we need to understand this order so we know which words our children should be able to read independently (and which words have more advanced phonics skills).

I know you want your child to grow into a strong reader and speller this year, but that requires YOU knowing how to help them on their journey.

Keep listening to learn the order of phonics skills your child will most likely learn in kindergarten so you can best support them on their reading journey.

I've also included a FREE download of this information for you as well, which you can grab by clicking here!

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Do you know the difference between letter names and letter sounds?

While this may seem like an easy question, I see parents & children making this mistake time and time again.

• The first sound in Arctic is not "A"
• The first sound in Orange is not "O"
• The first sound in Chicago is not "C"

In today's episode, I'm sharing with you:

• The difference between letter names and sounds
• The 44 phonemes used in English (spelled with 26 letters of the alphabet)
• Why this information even matters!

Keep listening so you can properly teach your preschool, pre-k, or kindergarten child how to read!

Then download my Consonants and Vowels FREEBIE by clicking here!

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