All the students are enjoying this nice stretch of good weather and the children love talking about all the beautiful colors of the leaves. This is a great time of the year to go on a short nature walk in your backyard, around the neighborhood, or even in a local park. See if your children ...
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A Busy October in Ms. Phelen’s Class
October was a very busy month filled with so many exciting events. Our fall season allowed our students to truly enjoy the discovery of how the leaves change colors and the welcoming of the cooler weather. We also celebrated a variety of special events and holidays at school.
Special Events and ...
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Back to School in the Limerick Classroom
The children are truly beginning to settle into the class routine by working with a variety of new and reviewing lessons each day. They are taking on more and more responsibilities for both caring for themselves and their environment.
Classroom Jobs
Each of the older children chose a few ...
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Let’s Discover How Word Awareness Is Developed for Reading
Word awareness is the understanding that a phrase or sentence is made up of individual words. It’s also the ability to manipulate words in phrases and sentences which includes playing with compound words. Word awareness is the most basic level of phonological awareness and seems incredibly ...
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Assist Your Child with Alphabetic Principle to Be a Better Reader
The Alphabetic Principle is the concept that letters are used to represent individual phonemes in spoken words. We want our children to understand there is a systematic relationship between speech sounds and printed letters.
The two important foundations of the alphabetic principle are Letter ...
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Developing Reading Comprehension for Young Readers
During the past few months, we have explored the development of both decoding sounds and language comprehension. As a review, decoding is the ability to apply knowledge of letter-sound relationships to correctly pronounce written words. Language comprehension is the ability to derive meaning from ...
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How Children Learn Language Comprehension to Become Better Readers
Once a child learns the majority of their letter sounds by decoding they also need to learn Language Comprehension, which is the ability to derive meaning from spoken words. It has nothing to do with the actual written letters on a page, but how a child’s oral language ...
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How Children Learn to Decode Sounds into Words to Become Better Readers
Before children are even introduced to the written language on paper they must become aware of the oral language they need to identify the written sounds. Oral language came well before written language in human history. Humans have been speaking for over 200,000 years, yet the earliest forms ...
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