Category: Parent Tips
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Things Good Readers Do: Make Connections
This post may contain affiliate links, which means I’ll receive a commission if you purchase through my links, at no extra cost to you. Please read full disclosure for more information. In the previous post of this series, I went over the strategy of visualization and how I teach it. This strategy…
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Things Good Readers Do: Predict and Question
After a few weeks’ hiatus, we’re back with the second part of the Things Good Readers Do series! Hopefully the timing of this post (and others) will be right on target for teachers who are doing some research over the summer on how to more explicitly target strategies when teaching…
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Things Good Readers Do: Skim and Scan
Here it is: Part Two of the Things Good Readers Do series! In Part 1, we talked about the habits of good readers, which, when practiced, is how people become lifelong readers. If you’re new here, you might want to read the series introduction before diving in here today. In…
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Things Good Readers Do: Talk about Books
This post may contain affiliate links, which means I’ll receive a commission if you purchase through my links, at no extra cost to you. Please read full disclosure for more information. Why should readers talk about books? | What do good readers talk about? | How I teach book talk in the…
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Things Good Readers Do: Make it a Habit
This post contains lots of links, because I like to give you connections to helpful things! Some of those links may be affiliate links, which means I’ll receive a commission if you purchase through my links, at no extra cost to you. Please read full disclosure for more information. Why Develop The…
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Things Good Readers Do: Set Goals + Track their Reading
This post may contain affiliate links, which means I’ll receive a commission if you purchase through my links, at no extra cost to you. Please read full disclosure for more information. Happy Easter weekend! I have Good Friday and Easter Monday off this weekend, for which I am so thankful. I’m using…
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Things Good Readers Do: Abandon Books
We’ve started talking in this series about the habits of good readers. Once we know what good readers do, we can start to practice them, have our little ones practice them, and help all of us become even better readers. Last post, I talked about how I teach kids how…
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Things Good Readers Do: Find “Just Right” Books
Who’s ready to learn about the habits that good readers develop? If you haven’t read the series introduction, check it out so you know where we’re going in this blog post and future ones. In Part 1, we’re going to be focusing on the habits that good readers practice and…
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10 Notable Children’s Book Authors and Illustrators
This week is Children’s Authors and Illustrators week, where we get to highlight the incredible people who create engaging texts for kids of all ages. I have a few different posts planned for you, and I am excited to share them with you! Last week, I wrote about what parents…
a Look at a Book 