If you’re anything like our family, AR Books have been a struggle from day one. I feel like I missed a memo at the beginning of Kindergarten orientation or something. All the sudden in the First Grade, my kids needed to find AR books, read them, and pass tests on them. For the busy moms,… Continue reading How to Find AR Books on Amazon
Category: Literacy Tips
Read Along Books and Digital Sight Word Bundle
We are so excited to introduce our first Read Along Books Series in a Digital Sight Word Bundle. This package includes everything you need to help your child learn all 20 Sight Words in the first list of Baseball Words (Ball Words, Dolch Words, Fry Words). Teaching Sight Words Learning sight words can be a… Continue reading Read Along Books and Digital Sight Word Bundle
Free Sight Word Tracker for Busy Moms
Those pesky sight words always seemed to baffle my mind. When my own kids were first studying sight words in kindergarten, I was perplexed as to why some words came easy to them and others did not. There seemed to be no rhyme or reason as to why they knew some words easily and others… Continue reading Free Sight Word Tracker for Busy Moms
5 Quick Ways to Teach Sight Words to Kids
Here at Candy Lemon Books, we really like to focus on sight words. The reason for this is that I felt such immense stress when my kids were in kindergarten. It was the first time I had ever heard that sight words had to be memorized in order to pass their grade. I am a… Continue reading 5 Quick Ways to Teach Sight Words to Kids
Does My Kid Really Need to Read for 30 Minutes Every Night?
Bottom line… YES! But do we hit the mark every night… NO! Here are some statistics that really do show the benefit of the ACCUMULATED hours of reading. “If daily reading begins at day one, by the time the child is five years old, he or she has been fed roughly 54,750 minutes of brain food!”(from Why… Continue reading Does My Kid Really Need to Read for 30 Minutes Every Night?
How to REALLY Make Reading FUN (for the Unmotivated Child)
Here we are, 4 months after my first post about motivating my kids to read. You can probably guess where we’re at; maybe your situation is similar. (see ‘The Power of NO’ with a FREE printable Reading Reward Chart!) I have one girl who is so excited about school and motivated to read. Their school… Continue reading How to REALLY Make Reading FUN (for the Unmotivated Child)
5 Easy Ways to Help Kids with Reading Comprehension
Have you ever read something… and then completely forgotten what you just read? I call this “zoning out” and I do it a lot. I recently switched to audio books and it has helped improve my focus. But even still, unless a book is really interesting or captivating, it is really easy to “zone out”… Continue reading 5 Easy Ways to Help Kids with Reading Comprehension
Learn to Type Sight Words
We are so excited to introduce Typing Llamas to the world. This new book helps kids not only learn to touch type (keyboarding) but also how to read (and type) sight words along the way. I don’t need to tell you how important it will be for kids to know how to type fast in… Continue reading Learn to Type Sight Words
Parent’s Guide to Reading Fluency
I have always thought my kids were great readers. From the time they could barely make out words to now when they are reading most books in our house, I thought my kids were always right on track! Enter… THE THIRD GRADE!! I started to notice my daughter sounded a bit choppier in her reading,… Continue reading Parent’s Guide to Reading Fluency
Is Covid Slide the New Summer Slide?
Ever since my kids entered kindergarten, I kept hearing buzz of summer slide. What is that? With their minds idle, I learned that learning loss can occur over the summer months. The more I read about it, the more worried I became about making sure to enrich the children during the off summer months. This… Continue reading Is Covid Slide the New Summer Slide?