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http://athome.readinghorizons.com/community/blog/why-should-parents-care-about-phonics-instruction/ Experience teaches us to be skeptical when things seem too good to be true, and it seems like 98% of the time an opportunity appears too amazing, something surely is amiss. But sometimes you find a wonderful thing that doesn’t come with a catch, like the perfect pair of shoes on sale, someone who loves you because of your peculiarities (instead of despite them), or perhaps a reading strategy that is actually going to help your child learn to overcome their struggles with literacy. How can you know that reading instruction is truly research-proven or scientifically-based?

Why Should Parents Care About Phonics Instruction? - Reading Corner Blog

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20 Awesome iPad Apps That Will Teach Your Kids to Read

Dear Nathan, My name is Larry, and I work with Onlinecollegecourses.com . I’m writing because we recently published an article, “ 20 Awesome iPad Apps That Will Teach Your Kids to Read ”, that we think clicks with tone of your site and the passions of your readers. Here’s the link: http://www.onlinecollegecourses.com/2012/07/01/20-awesome-ipad-apps-that-will-teach-your-kids-to-read/
If you know how to sound out a word you are using phonics skills. Without this ability it is nearly impossible to learn to read new words. Any extra reading practice that you can do at home to reinforce phonics skills is always a bonus.

Games That Improve Phonics Development - Reading Corner Blog

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Letter A Video

http://havefunteaching.com/videos/alphabet-videos/letter-a-video/ The Letter A Video Download is an alphabet song that teaches The Letter A. The Letter A video teaches the Short Vowel A Sound and the Long Vowel A Sound, Letter A Vocabulary Words, and Teaches How to Write an Uppercase Letter A and a Lowercase Letter A. This is a Song for Learning All About the Letter A. Watch This Video Before You Buy - Click Here
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Can Khan Move the Bell Curve to the Right?

It was goal-setting day in Rich Julian’s 5th-grade class at Covington Elementary School in Los Altos, California, when I visited last fall, and Julian was asking each of his 29 students to list three math goals for the week. To become proficient at dividing a one-place number into a three-place number, a girl with blue-painted fingernails wrote in her math journal. To become proficient in multiplying decimals, wrote a dark-haired boy.