Good readers use specific strategies; strategies that kids can learn and that you can teach your kids. Help your kids become better readers, readers who comprehend what they are reading, when you read with them – from beginning readers to more advanced readers. Yesterday, we discussed knowing if you do or do not comprehend what […]
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Help Your Child Improve Reading Comprehension
Are your kids comprehending what they read? Because if they aren’t, you need to know how you an help your child improve his reading comprehension. And you need to know how to help them at home. Especially over the summer. Some kids don’t stop when they’re confused, they just keep going! (Aaah!) I had 5th […]
New Children’s Books
Spring’s bounty of newly published books for kids is here with a round-up of new children’s books: picture books, board books, and non-fiction. New Children’s Books Pete the Cat and His Four Groovy Buttons by Eric Litwin, created by James Dean I imagine it’s hard to follow the perfection of the first Pete the Cat book. […]
Engaging Puzzle and Activity Books for Kids
Are you keeping up with summer learning so your kids don’t experience the dreaded “summer slide”? Me, too. But, that’s where puzzle and activity books come in. They’ll keep your kids and mine learning and thinking this summer. (‘Cause I need to get my act together! You?) Activity Books for Kids Ages 2 – 5 […]
10 Book-Loving Picture Books & 10 Book-Fun Activities
by Lorie of Reading Confetti We all want to raise a reader. In my family we’ve found ten favorite book-loving picture books and ten book-fun activities. Try them and see if they inspire new ways to love books in your family! Book-Loving Books: 1. Wild About Books by Judy Sierra – In this fun rhyming book-loving […]
Fun Spelling Game: Missing Letter
I’m so glad to be writing here at Imagination Soup! My name is Jill. My blog amomwithalessonplan.com is full of playful learning activities, just like the one I am sharing a spelling game with you today. Spelling Game Big M (6 years old) started bringing home spelling words a few months ago. Since I know […]
A Book-Themed Percy Jackson Birthday Party
Percy Jackson is a five book chapter book series about a 12-year-old demi-god boy whose dad is Poseidon, the Greek god of the sea. Percy spends the series of light-hearted, adventurous books escaping from monsters, training at Camp Half-Blood (a camp for demi-gods) and questing — for example, in the first book, he tries to prove […]