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More Read-Aloud Poems for Early Readers
In this post and this post, I shared poems that I wrote for Samuel to read and memorize. Here are a few more poems for early readers like Samuel to read aloud! I wrote the following poem when we learned that words ending in ‘ay’ say A. Words including ‘ai’ also say A, but English words do not end with the letter ‘i’. We practiced reading words like pay and paid, lay and laid. We also discussed how the word ‘says’ and ‘said’ make the ‘ay’ and the ‘ai’ sound like the ‘e’ in the word ‘pet’. My dog can run.He runs all day.He sits in the sun,Then runs away.…
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How To Combine Charlotte Mason’s Reading Principles with “Spell to Write and Read”
A few weeks ago, I reviewed Wanda Sanseri’s reading curriculum Spell to Write and Read (SWR). I shared what I liked and disliked about the curriculum and gave some background information about our reading experiences thus far. (Here’s a link to the post just in case you missed it.) In this post, I’ll share how we combine Charlotte Mason’s reading principles outlined in the “A Delectable Education” podcast (ADE for short) with Sanseri’s methods and resources from Spell to Write and Read. In Spell to Write and Read, Sanseri recommends beginning by teaching your student all 70 phonograms. Students don’t need to memorize all 70 before they can move on,…
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A Review of Wanda Sanseri’s “Spell to Write and Read”
If any of you talked with me in person last summer, I likely told you that I planned to teach Samuel how to read. Well, we’re still working on that! Samuel makes progress every week in his learning, and I make progress in my teaching. I’ve been encouraged over the last couple years by moms in our Classical Conversations (CC) community who told me that reading didn’t really “click” for their younger boys until around age eight. (Also a likely time for a young boy to go through a growth spurt, I’ve heard. I can’t imagine what a growth spurt then will be like for Samuel because he’s already so…