Label your home to boost second language learning and literacy skills Labeling everyday objects in your home is a simple and constructive way to encourage language and literacy growth in your child. Putting small labels on objects like the sofa, table, or lamps gives kids an opportunity to see and read the object’s name each […]
With free English and Spanish templates to use at school or at home High frequency words and sight words are words that beginning readers need to learn to start reading books fluently. What’s the difference? Sight words are words that kids know by sight – without decoding. Many are difficult for kids to decode (or […]
Earlier this year, we took our three kids on their very first plane rides – to Tucson, Arizona! My husband and I moved down to Tucson from Iowa several years ago. He did his intern year of his medical residency, and I taught second grade in a Spanish immersion program. When we moved back to […]
If you’re a bilingual teacher, you know it can be difficult to find quality Spanish books for your students! I’ve always taught in the primary grades because teaching reading is my passion. One year, I accepted a position to teach second grade at a school with a Spanish immersion program in its very first years. […]
When you’re listening to your child read you a book and he stumbles through a tricky new word, do you rush in to tell him what it is? Don’t worry, I sometimes do, too! But, if we can prompt our child to solve the new or unknown word for himself, he’ll become a better reader. […]
Do you ever wish that you could read Spanish books to your kids? Or maybe you’d like to be able to help your beginning reader with Spanish books but don’t speak the language? I’d love to help! My husband has never taken any Spanish classes, and had absolutely no idea how to read a Spanish […]
