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Getting Kids to Brush and Read

April 10, 2018 by Chris Leave a Comment

A couple quick recommendations of products we’ve been loving……

Brushing

Getting your kids to brush their teeth is not always an easy task.  Well, then you need to convince them to do it correctly. Good luck.  Our guys are okay brushers, but if we didn’t tell them they needed to, they’d skip it every time.

Check out Chompers.  They describe it as a twice-daily tooth brushing show. The three-minute show features, jokes, stories, songs and fact sessions intercut with brushing reminders.

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Staying on the Gimlet Site, I’m also recommending the Story Pirates Podcast. The Story Pirates are a talented and quick-witted troupe of improv artists who act out “original stories from real kids.”

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We loved Story Pirates back when they were weekly feature son Kids Place Live; now they have their own podcast.  We’ve seen them live it’s a fun afternoon.

Reading

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Our guys have been reluctant readers. It takes persistence and they’d rather be inventing recipes, but that’s changed recently.  They’ve become super motivated, and the book that has helped us reach their goals is Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons by Siegfried Engelmann, Phyliss Haddox, and Elaine Bruner.

It’s beautiful watching the kids read on their own, and this book’s straightforward system, of layering sounds, words and eventually sentences is simple, exciting and effective.  I can’t say enough good things about this book.  The only negative is we should have started earlier.

 

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Teaching Vocabulary With Chapter Books

February 2, 2018 by Karen Leave a Comment

We are always looking for chapter books that appeal to our 6-year-old twin boys for shared book reading.

Whether it’s on the couch, in the hammock or a bedtime story. We can’t get enough of a good series that keeps us looking forward to what’s going to happen next.

We’re super excited for the upcoming 4th book of Upside Down Magic, Dragon Overnight by Sarah Mlynowski,‎ Lauren Myracle, and‎ Emily Jenkins

The fourth book came out January 30th.  If you haven’t read the first 3, we highly recommend it. The Upside Down Magic series is about a group of misfits that learns to foster, embrace, and celebrate their differences.
Nory can’t control her wonky magic and turns herself into a dritten (yes a dragon/kitten hybrid) instead of a perfectly formed cat.
After many misadventures, she learns being out of the ordinary is extraordinary. It’s a great read to support kids who are just starting school and provides teachable moments for embracing differences in learning styles and abilities.

Looking to amplify learning from shared book reading? Here is a research-based strategy to explicitly teach vocabulary, it’s called Text Talk. I use this with my kids, preschoolers, and Kindergarteners. It’s easy and fun, the kids eat it up!

Find a Tier 2 word to teach your children.

Once you find a Tier 2 word:

  1. Contextualize the word.
  2. Provide a simple definition of the word.
  3. Have the child(ren) repeat the word.
  4. Take turns using the word in different context with your child(ren).

This is just one of the many fun teaching activities you can use with children to increase their success and enjoyment with literacy. You can learn more by registering to take the Building Blocks of Literacy workshop at http://www.buildingblocksforliteracy.org/

 

 

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Karen Rodgers is a mother of twin boys, wife, and speech language pathologist for the Champlain Valley School District in Vermont and New England Speech & Feeding. She knows her way around a weight room and here on the GoodFitFam blog Karen and her husband Chris will share their wisdom, experience and contagious passion for kids, fun and fitness.

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