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Have you heard the news? We've Moved to  HeidiSongs.tv ! Our new website features an online video streaming service, updated blog posts at  Heidisongs.blog , and a wealth of fresh resources designed to make learning even more fun and engaging. You can also continue shopping for our educational products there and at our  Teachers Pay Teachers store ! Head over to  HeidiSongs.tv  now and explore all the exciting new features.  See you there! __________________________________________________________________________ Most children are taught to read in Kindergarten these days, and this is now a fact that is a big surprise to many parents, who have fond memories of blocks, painting, stories, play dough, and play time from their own experiences in Kindergarten!  Personally, I distinctly remember singing (what else, LOL!) in Kindergarten, my lovely teacher's name (Mrs. Brazil!), playing on the playground, and little else.  But the reality is that ...

Have you heard the news? We've Moved to  HeidiSongs.tv ! Our new website features an online video streaming service, updated blog posts at  Heidisongs.blog , and a wealth of fresh resources designed to make learning even more fun and engaging. You can also continue shopping for our educational products there and at our  Teachers Pay Teachers store ! Head over to  HeidiSongs.tv  now and explore all the exciting new features.  See you there! __________________________________________________________________________ Hello Everyone! I often hear, "My students know most of their letters and sounds, now what?" Here are some of my top tips for moving students from reading letters , to words , to books! To make reading books a successful and enjoyable experience for new readers I like to start at the end , and work my way backwards !  That is to say, I teach the children to "pretend read" little books that are very motivational and easy for them t...

Have you heard the news? We've Moved to  HeidiSongs.tv ! Our new website features an online video streaming service, updated blog posts at  Heidisongs.blog , and a wealth of fresh resources designed to make learning even more fun and engaging. You can also continue shopping for our educational products there and at our  Teachers Pay Teachers store ! Head over to  HeidiSongs.tv  now and explore all the exciting new features.  See you there! __________________________________________________________________________ With summer right around the corner, it is important to remind students and parents the importance of reading 30 minutes a day. Parents really are a child's first and most important teacher. This is a wonderful explanation of why it is important for your child to read every day. A great teacher at my school passed this information on to me, and I thought it was important to post here in the hope that more people can pass this around to those...

Have you heard the news? We've Moved to  HeidiSongs.tv ! Our new website features an online video streaming service, updated blog posts at  Heidisongs.blog , and a wealth of fresh resources designed to make learning even more fun and engaging. You can also continue shopping for our educational products there and at our  Teachers Pay Teachers store ! Head over to  HeidiSongs.tv  now and explore all the exciting new features.  See you there! __________________________________________________________________________ In this post, I am going to share a few methods that I use to help children comprehend nonfiction print and prepare for Accelerated Reader (also known as AR) tests. These tests on informational books can be tricky, and there are few things that drive parents crazier than helping a child prepare for a test at school and then finding that he failed- AGAIN!  For some kids, it seems like no matter how hard they try, they simply can't pa...

Have you heard the news? We've Moved to  HeidiSongs.tv ! Our new website features an online video streaming service, updated blog posts at  Heidisongs.blog , and a wealth of fresh resources designed to make learning even more fun and engaging. You can also continue shopping for our educational products there and at our  Teachers Pay Teachers store ! Head over to  HeidiSongs.tv  now and explore all the exciting new features.  See you there! __________________________________________________________________________ Hello there!  Today I am very happy to announce that I have finished creating another set of my popular I Spy Print Books:  I Spy CVC Words Vol. 2 Print and Fold Books!  This set goes along with my CVC Book Vol. 2, whereas the first set went along with the words in my CVC Book Vol. 1.  (They contain different word families.)  These are great tools for teaching comprehension, because they require kids to THINK...

Have you heard the news? We've Moved to  HeidiSongs.tv ! Our new website features an online video streaming service, updated blog posts at  Heidisongs.blog , and a wealth of fresh resources designed to make learning even more fun and engaging. You can also continue shopping for our educational products there and at our  Teachers Pay Teachers store ! Head over to  HeidiSongs.tv  now and explore all the exciting new features.  See you there! __________________________________________________________________________ Did you know that young children can learn to read many words easily just by playing with them and singing about them?  This can easily happen at home or at school- or better yet- in both places!  The more they interact with and talk about or sing about the words, the more easily and quickly this is likely to happen.  The brain of the preschool aged child is often compared to a sponge, and there is a good reason for that: ...