Songs are a great way to help children learn and reinforce early literacy skills. Check out these three Super Simple Christmas songs from YouTube to share with your young readers!
Teaching the difference between letters and words
Beginning readers and writers often have a number of confusions to work out. One of the most fundamental and easily missed is knowing the difference between letters and words. Here are some tried and true strategies from the Reading Recovery world that work! #letters #words #earlylearning #teaching #readingrecovery
Online letter learning games and apps for kids
What child doesn’t love playing on the computer these days? (And what parent isn’t happy for a bit of time to make dinner?) Interactive computer games can add some fun variety and independence to literacy learning, and have the added bonus of modeling the proper pronunciation of letter sounds for those who may be learning English as a second language.
Alphabet games from TVO kids
Looking for some online games for letter learning at home or in your classroom? That Fun Reading Teacher highlights TVO kids’ alphabet games adds easy to access direct links to her Kids’ Stuff page. Plus – find out how TVO supports the Ontario Curriculum.