High-Frequency Words
Teaching Methods
4 Reasons Your Child Needs Building Toys for Language and Creativity Development
10 Surprising Ways to Help a Child Learn to Read
Building Minds: Block Play as a Writing, Thinking, and Math Tool
Emotional Literacy in the Preschool Classroom
How to Read a Picture Book—With a Pirate as Your Guide
Incidentally, Yahtzee is an English Game
Summer Fun
10 Delightful Ways to Keep Your Kids’ Summer Reading in Swing
The Midnight Ball (a clock math story) Literacy Matching Games
A fun companion to The Midnight Ball, three kinds of matching games to play with children, to build sound associations and sight word skills.
Click to download The Midnight Ball Matching Games
Rainbow Crow—Literacy Bingo
Enjoy a little crow bingo with this literacy extra for Rainbow Crow: poems in and out of form.
Click to download Rainbow Crow Bingo
Tracing Sheets
Molly and Joe Want to Know: B Beginning
Molly and Joe Want to Know: B Advanced
Color & Trace Sheets—Plus Fun Facts, Videos, and Poetry Prompts
Learn fun facts about buffaloes, watch a video about buffalo conservation, and write a buffalo limerick with this fun reading activity coloring page.
Learn fun facts about butter, watch a video about how butter is made, and write a buttery good limerick with this fun reading activity coloring page.
Learn fun facts about brisket and write a briskety good limerick with this fun reading activity coloring page.
Learn fun facts about books and write a bookishly good limerick with this fun reading activity coloring page.
Printable Miniatures for an “I Like Colors” Predictable Sentence Chart
The book A Is for Azure includes instructions for how to make a predictable sentence chart. Such a chart is one way to help children learn high-frequency words, as well as show them how reading and writing can be used to share information that relates to them and their friends.
A Is for Azure Printables for Predictable Sentence Chart
Printable Sentence Builders for Learning Color Words
A Is for Azure Printables for Sentence Builders
Printable Color Counting Book With Days of the Week—Literacy and Math Fun!
Printable Color Counting Book With Days of the Week—Literacy and Math Fun!