This week’s book is The Little Red Hen Makes a Pizza by Philemon Sturges. The Little Red Hen Makes A Pizza START Read 1 This first read focuses on explaining the key events of the…

Matthew and Tilly START Read 1 This week’s book is Matthew and Tilly. This first read focuses on explaining the key events of the story and pushing in target vocabulary. Matthew and Tilly START Read…

My Cold Plum Lemon Pie Bluesy Mood START Read 1 This week’s book is My Cold Plum Lemon Pie Bluesy Mood by Tameka Fryer Brown. This first read focuses on explaining the key events of…

A language-rich environment requires intentionality and planning. One very important way we can do this is to make our classrooms into a “No Shhh Zone’’. This is an environment where children have opportunities all day…

One of the best ways we can prepare children to understand what they are reading once they are in third grade and beyond is to build their language acquisition now. We can do this by…

In order for children to comprehend what they read when they are older, they need to understand and use wide variety of “interesting” words while they’re little. Some experts say a child must hear a…

Make the most of story time with the children you teach. Create an engaging and literacy-building lesson plan for your Pre-K students around one of our favorite books: Parts by Tedd Arnold. First, watch read…

Make the most of story time with the children you teach. Create an engaging and literacy-building lesson plan for your Pre-K students around one of our favorite books: Julián Is a Mermaid by Jessica Love….