Literacy

It is significant to encourage children to identify and isolate rhyme awareness. Rhyming words are the words that end with the same sound. This can be done with real words or non-sense words. Students have been learning about words that rhyme. For our project Show and Tell they had to …

One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish is a 1960 children’s book by Dr. Seuss. A simple rhyming book for fun learning. It is a book about a boy and a girl, and the many amazing creatures they have for friends and pets. This a begginers book to celebrate …

If I Ran the Circus (1957) A young boy imagines the fantastic animals and incredible acts he will have for his greatest of all circuses. This is a rhyming picture book tale of a young Morris McGurk’s big circus dream.

Construction/ Let’s Build! Construction is a very interesting theme for children. Children seem to be interested to build things using their imagination. Sometimes children have common interest and they can learn from each other when they are building something together. This “team” work could be used as an opportunity to …

Jonathan London is the author of many children’s books, though it’s the “Froggy” series that is his main claim to fame… The Froggy books are essentially pretty dumb, but there’s a goofy quality about them that’s likely to recommend it to small children. In this story, Froggy spends all his …

Travel to the Stars-READ! Lee County Reading Council -26th Annual Conference This year the Theme for Lee County Reading Council Annual Conference was “Travel to the Stars-READ.” They offered four sessions of speakers throughout the day. The sessions included many local teachers and National presenters with a variety of subjects and …

Jack and the Beanstalk Illustrated by Matt Faulkner 

Green Eggs and Ham is one of Seuss’s “Beginner Books”. It was first published on August 12, 1960, and became the fourth-best selling English-language children’s hardcover book of all time. Green Eggs and Ham was written by Dr. Seuss with just 50 vocabulary words.  a, am, and, anywhere, are, be, …