Reading
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Five Best Feminist Books for Babies and Toddlers
If you are having a daughter, you probably want to empower her to be the best woman she can be. This list of feminist books for babies and toddlers is sure to do just that. Filled with both board books and picture books, these books are age-appropriate ways to build your daughter’s self-love right from the start. You can start reading these to your baby right away to ensure they grow up feeling and speaking a positive self-image. I should mention that these books certainly aren’t just for daughters. We need our sons to be feminists, too. This post has affiliate links in them. As an affiliate, I make income…
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What is Orthographic Mapping?
What is Orthographic Mapping? Orthographic mapping is an essential strategy to implement in the primary education classroom when teaching reading. In the upper elementary classroom, this strategy can be used to remediate skills for readers who are struggling with basic reading or spelling skills. Orthographic mapping helps students make connections between sounds and spelling. It uses students’ phonemic awareness and combines it with their knowledge of phonemes and graphemes. Eventually students will commit the words and phonics patterns to memory. This is a great strategy to use when teaching high-frequency words, sometimes referred to as, “heart words.” To be successful with orthographic mapping students must have a strong understanding of…
