Teaching Aids
Children’s Games for November (and Other Free Goodies)
Primary Education
This adorable (and very long!) public domain book, which can be downloaded and printed out for free here, offers a variety of games, songs, poems for children. Activities are broken up week by week and into subjects (hygeine, phonics, music, drawing, and even seatwork).
Children’s music score sheets, coloring pages, detailed articles about teaching [...]
Dolch Sight Words List - Alphabetical Order
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Edward William Dolch, PhD, originally published this list of sightwords in his book Problems in Reading in 1948.
The list was based on children’s books of his era. It contains 220 words that must be easily recognized in order to achieve reading fluency. The compilation excludes nouns, which comprise a separate 95-word list.
Many of [...]
Free Dolch Sight Word Flashcards (A-B)
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Edward William Dolch, PhD, originally published this list of sightwords in his book Problems in Reading in 1948.
The list was based on children’s books of his era. It contains 220 words that must be easily recognized in order to achieve reading fluency. The compilation excludes nouns, which comprise a separate 95-word list.
Many of the 220 [...]
Converting Microsoft Word to PDF Free using CutePDF
I have been participating in Works for Me Wednesday’s over at Little Jack’s Corner since January, but this will be my first Works for Me Wednesday post here at my new blog! I thought I’d share a little something that would help you out if you homeschool and like making your own things.
You know how [...]
B is for Ball
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A is for Apple
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Practice writing the letter A in both capital and little letter form
on this colorful worksheet from Homeschool Fever.
Teaching Numbers 1-10 (Free Flashcards)
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Teach number recognition 1-10 with these red dot flashcards.
Flashcards feature brilliant red circles, numeral, and number name.
Learning Greek: Free Alphabet Flashcards for Homeschoolers
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Are you or your child learning Greek?
These fabulous flashcards will get that alphabet memorized in no time.
Free Shapes Flashcards (Circle, Oval, Square, Star, Triangle)
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This set of free shape flashcards include
Square
Circle
Star
Oval
Triangle
Transactional View of Reading
This theory says that children construct meaning from books based not just on text or the specific genre, but by relying on their own background knowledge. The reader’s personal experience, preferences, and feelings construct the true meaning of the text. Therefore meaning is found in the transaction between reader and text.
Importance: This theory is important [...]
Literature Genres: Cultural Diversity
About this Genre: This genre involves stories that reflect a wide range of societal structures, beliefs, ethics, attitudes, morals, abilities, ethnicities, family structures, and countries.
Importance: This genre helps challenge what children view as “normal” and shows them that there are more than one way of living life outside of a middle-class American suburbian existence. It [...]
Literature Genres: Historical Fiction
About this Genre: Historical Fiction uses the facts and events of history to create a time and place, so the author can set a fictional character or a fictional story plot in the middle.
Importance: This genre shows children a way of living outside of modern technology. It gives them a view into how their ancestors [...]
Literature Genres: Realistic Fiction
About this Genre: Realistic Fiction is based in actuality and realism. It is about people, places and events that could actual exist and happy in our earthly realm.
Importance: This genre lets children easily live the events that happen and compare themselves to the human character presented. It gives an intense [...]
Literature Genres: Fantasy and Science Fiction
About this Genre: Fantasy / Science Fiction takes stories beyond the realm of known earthly possibilities and scientific laws. It typically incorporates worlds and universes outside of our own, other species (elves, dragons, wizards, dwarfs, etc.), and humans with abnormal capabilities. Science Fiction differs from fantasy in that its stories are based upon advancement of [...]
Literature Genre: Folklore
About this Genre: Folklore is the retailing of myths, stories, legends, “old-wives-tales”, epics, cultural jokes, and traditional literature that has been passed down in oral or written form for hundreds to thousands of years.
Importance: It provides a foundation for future literary understanding. It also gives a background reference to cultural references in other stories (such [...]
