I am SO excited about this new product that I have been working on for awhile now. Hayden has been working on beginning reading for quite some time. Over the past few years, I have had so many parents reach out to me asking for advice on how to help their little one develop reading skills. I hope this program helps families to grow confident readers, while having fun. Grow A Reader Here is a little sneak inside Grow a Reader, Unit 1. Each week 4 new sight words are introduced, as well as a word family. There are also activities for rhyming, syllables, fluency, and beginning sounds. For Unit 1, the sight words are: -the -I -a -see In each unit, there are three games to help learn and review the sight words. Target Practice: Throw a ball, Nerf gun or squirt gun at plastic cups. Read each word you hit! There is also a recording sheet to record the results. Hidden Sight Words: Write the sight words in white crayon. Color over the sight words with marker to reveal the mystery word! Play Dough Stamp: Use play dough and letter stamps to spell out each word. These sight word cards are also included in each unit! I love to place them by our door. When we leave the house, Hayden will high 5 and read each word. Sight words are GREAT. But I also wanted Hayden to work on fluency. Each week there will be fluency sticks. You can time your child with how long it takes to read them. OR you can set the timer for one minute to see how many sticks they can read in one minute. These are all sight word phrases using the Pre-Primer Dolch List. There is also a sight word/word family reader each week. This combines the sight words and word family with simple sentences and pictures for support. Other skills worked on in Unit 1. Gumball Beginning Sounds- Identify the beginning sound in each picture. -AT family spelling and building CVC words. Rhyme and Stomp- I held up a rhyming card, and Hayden found a word that rhymed, and stomped on it. Syllable Smash: Place four play dough balls on the syllable counting mat. Place a picture card on the mat. Count and smash the syllables in each word. Grow a Reader For more play based learning ideas, follow us on Instagram @michele_dillon