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How to Teach Essential Reading Skills using SnapWords® Classroom Kit

The SnapWords® Classroom Kit will be your best, most hard-working set of tools to use to give your students comprehensive reading skills that go way beyond just calling out sight words. Here is what you do: Download Beyond Sight Words Activities   Then stack the 6 packs of SnapWords®: A, B, C, D, E, Numbers & Colors   Next locate SnapWords® Mini-Lessons  Finally, stack the three copies of Sight Words in Sentences Get Started The Beyond Sight Words Activities Download will guide you through exactly what to do. This resource has hundreds of activities laid out for you in 25 levels of difficulty. If you are beginning with your whole class, the simplest thing to do would be to start with the first...

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How to Teach Letters and Sounds  

All of us enjoy teaching the ABC Song to young children. We get excited when toddlers can sing the song all the way through! And it feels like the first solid step in the process of learning to read. And most children can learn the ABC Song! Most can also recite the ABCs from A to Z. But is that enough?

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Tips for Teaching Parts of Speech, Part 2

Had I been introduced to parts of speech through visuals and little story snippets that helped me easily understand, maybe diagramming would also have been fun. I have recently revived the art of diagramming because I believe that it helps children/students easily learn how to correctly construct sentences.

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