Eric Van Raepenbusch's Blog Posts Tagged 'Jon' (2)

"Research shows that boys will read -- if they are given reading that interests them." I found this quote on Jon Scieszka's Guys Read website, whose mission is to help boys become self-motivated, lifelong readers.  This quote was a perfect fit for today, since this was the first author birthday celebration at our house that was a "Boys Only" event.  My daughter is now in first grade and many of the upcoming birthday celebrations just won't fit into her… Continue

When I was a special education teacher, I had my students spend a small part of each language arts class "working with words".  Students would manipulate letter cards to make words and then rearrange them to find new words.  It was a quick way to focus on word patterns and isolate the sounds we had been studying.  This week my children and I "worked with words" in some hilarious new ways by investigating books by Jon Agee.  We learned about:



- Palindromes (words or phrases spelled…

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