“What Children Need to Learn to Read” is a wonderful book full of helpful tips, different teaching techniques, playful activities, amusing games, and silly songs that help make learning to read fun. This book is a wonderful resource for parents. It helps guide you through the challenges you may face when teaching kids to read.
Author Michelle Vallene is President and founder of Learners Lane. Created in 2000, Learners Lane was developed to help parents teach their kids to read. Learners Lane offers a variety of educational books and games.
With a 5 year old and a 2.5 year old this is the perfect time for us to read “What Children Need to Learn to Read.” Both of my girls really enjoy reading. Savannah has been reading the early reader books on her own for a year now. Cheyenne is starting to sound out her letters and is trying to put words together. I am so thankful that they enjoy reading because at their age, I did not.
I enjoyed reading this book, we really like the games. One of our favorites is “Go Fish Sight Words. To play, you write two sets of sight words on note cards. Then just like the regular go fish game, players must ask opponents for their desired card. If the opponent has your matching card, you keep going. If they don’t have your matching card, the next player gets a chance. Whoever collects the most matched sight word cards wins! The girls just love playing this game.
I think this book is a great tool. I wish I had gotten it when Savannah was a toddler. I suggest it for any parent but, especially for parents who have kids struggling with reading.
You can find “What Children Need to Learn to Read” on the Learners Lane website, Amazon, Facebook, or twitter.
Hello, my name is Laurie. My family and I live near the Oregon coast. When we aren’t at work, in school, or on the volleyball court, we enjoy traveling, cheering for our favorite sports teams, playing outdoors, and checking off items on our bucket list. We are lucky in that both sets of our parents, as well as our siblings and their families, live within an hour of us. We get together often to help one another out, celebrate milestones, and go on adventures together.
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Neat book. I need to look into it for my daughter. She enjoy reading and we read together every night before bed. This looks interesting.
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This book looks very interesting! I have my Master’s in Early Childhood Education so this is a topic that I know a little something about. I am glad to see it incorporates games into the book. That is something that any parent can do!
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Wow! A 2.5 years old is sounding out letter?! My 2.5 year old recognizing all the letters but we’re not to the point of sounding them out. Sounds like I need this book!!
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Wow! A 2.5 years old is sounding out letter?! My 2.5 year old recognizing all the letters but we’re not to the point of sounding them out. Sounds like I need this book!! Thanks for the info!
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I should look into this for my youngest. I would love for her to get a jumpstart on reading instead of waiting until school.
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