Teaching emergent readers a concept of word is THE way to teach them to read according to the keynote speakers at my conference last weekend. When kids connect spoken words to the text they see, they begin noticing beginning sounds, spelling patterns, sig
There is no perfect, ideal, and cohesive road for motherhood, only the twist and turns of the “figure it out yourself” sort... Was I ever a fully-fledged person before I had my children? Why yes, of course I was… I had a life and it was a great one –...