Tag: phonics skills
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7 Reading Skills Your First Grader Should Have, and How to Check Tonight
First grade is the most important year for learning to read. Not because of the curriculum. Because of the window. A landmark study found that 88% of children who were poor readers at the end of first grade were still poor readers in fourth grade. Not most of them. Nearly all of them. This isn’t…
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5 Books That Secretly Build Phonics Skills (Without Feeling Like Work)
If your kid rolls their eyes every time you pull out a phonics workbook, I get it. Mine does too. But here’s the thing: some of the best phonics practice doesn’t look like phonics practice at all. These five books have become staples in our house because they teach real reading skills while actually being…