Three Syllable Bingo is an engaging way to practice segmenting words for spelling.
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IF YOU WERE BORN A KITTEN by Marion Dane Bauer and JoEllen McAllister Stammen
If You Were Born A Kitten is a perfect bedtime book. It has the calming cadences of Reeve Lindbergh’s The Midnight Farm and it speaks to every youngster’s interest in their own coming-into-the-world story. The book shows the universality of being born while emphasizing the unique connection between the one giving birth and the one being born.
Splashdown
KID PRESIDENTS: TRUE TALES OF CHILDHOOD FROM AMERICA’S PRESIDENTS by D. Stabler and D. Horner
This book is chock full of lesser-known facts about the beginnings of our nation’s leaders.
Spell Around
AS GOOD AS ANYBODY by Richard Michelson and Raul Colon
Use As Good As Anybody to relate current events in race relations to the civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery 50 years ago. This book is also a good one to share in honoring King’s birthday on January 15th.
The Snowed in with Grandmother Silk Game
Students create a board game based on their reading.
RACER
Discriminate between consonant sounds in the game Racer.
FATHER BEAR GOES FISHING by Beverly Randell and Isabel Lowe
SNOWED IN WITH GRANDMOTHER SILK by Carol Fenner
This is an excellent book for tracking character development with beginning chapter book readers.
Laura Hulbert 