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Seasonal Playlists for your classroom listening center!

February 19, 2019 By thatfunreadingteacher Leave a Comment

Kids' seasonal literacy playlists That Fun Reading Teacher.com!

Want to keep your listening center relevant and engaging all year? Here is a free and growing collection of seasonal read-alouds, songs, poems and videos!

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Just-right Halloween Stories for Kindergarten

October 21, 2018 By thatfunreadingteacher Leave a Comment

Just right Halloween stories for Kindergarten #halloween #stories #kindergarten #kidlit #childrensbooks #readaloud #teaching #earlylearning #earlyliteracy

It’s almost Halloween! Come on in and let me tell me tell you why these are my ‘just-right’ Halloween story picks for Kindergarten! Fair warning – one had its’ share of controversy.

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Happy Father’s Day, and an inspiring story about a father reading aloud daily for nearly a decade!

June 17, 2018 By thatfunreadingteacher Leave a Comment

Happy Father’s Day! Recently I stumbled upon a story about a father reading aloud to his daughter that I found so inspiring.

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Children’s Thanksgiving stories that model an attitude of gratitude!

October 8, 2017 By thatfunreadingteacher Leave a Comment

Happy Thanksgiving! Tis the season of gratitude. If there is one thing I have learned from being a human being, it’s that personality traits / emotions like gratitude can be nurtured by exposure to models. Here are three Children’s Thanksgiving stories that model an attitude of gratitude!

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Great books for preparing kids for Fire Drills

September 11, 2017 By thatfunreadingteacher 1 Comment

Great books to help prepare kids for fire drills #firedrills #school #elementary #stories #kidlit

Stories are a great tool for preparing children for upcoming experiences. Reading about relatable characters practicing for a fire drill allows kids a few risk-free practice-runs in someone else body before having to try doing it themselves! Here are four great selections for our youngest students!

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It takes a village to raise readers – links and freebies for those in various roles!

August 21, 2017 By thatfunreadingteacher Leave a Comment

All of us – parents, teachers, early-childhood educators, volunteers, reading buddies, and our little students, too – we all have our roles to play in the early readers’ village. This post is loaded with links and freebies to support a number of these roles. Best wishes, my friends. Ida Mae

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How to empower and motivate beginning readers

May 8, 2017 By thatfunreadingteacher Leave a Comment

How to motivate beginning readers

How a bulletin board full of TRASH can help empower and motivate beginning readers! #teaching #reading #earlyliteracy #earlylearning #ThatFunReadingTeacher

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A Family Literacy Day message from Robert Munsch

January 9, 2017 By thatfunreadingteacher 2 Comments

Have you heard of ABC Life Literacy Canada? It is a is a non-profit organization that inspires Canadians to increase their literacy skills. Family Literacy Day is an annual event held on January 27th encouraging families to take fifteen minutes of fun per day to learn together. Looking for some 15 minutes of fun ideas? Read! Read Read More…

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Writing for real purposes – at Christmas!

November 20, 2016 By thatfunreadingteacher 3 Comments

It’s the most wonderful time of the year – for kids to be motivated to write! Think back to when you were a kid. When did you pull out pencil and paper on your own initiative to write a letter? This is one of those ‘teachable moments’ – grab the enthusiasm while the getting’s good!

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Halloween no-prep early literacy activities!

October 25, 2016 By thatfunreadingteacher Leave a Comment

It’s nearly Halloween, and if you teach beginning readers and writers, kindergarten or first grade, I’ve got some fun Halloween, no-prep early literacy activities and links to share with you! October 2020: I have just updated the Halloween pages of Fall Read and Write and More – for details, please see the preview on the product Read More…

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