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All kids needs help in school, or encouragement. The kids who do great in school, do so for a reason. Extra help at home and that extra effort from the student. Newmark Learning is fantastic- I love this program. It’s very interesting, a new take on some old ideas- and it works.
A great way to get involved with your kids education at home is spending time working with them, and encouraging them. Yes, we need to do that! It’s vital and important as parents. Parents are super busy, but our children come first. Help them get ahead- or stay ahead.
A great way to do this is with the Newmark Parent Involvement kits. These kits are great, simple and just fabulous. They include books geared toward a certain subject, as well as a a parent guide and a reading journal. The books are easy to read and perfect for little readers. We gave the Social Studies Parent Involvement Kit. This particular kit is geared toward pre K through second grade. The books involve topics like, maps, birthdays, towns, etc. All topics easily accessible to little ones. The vibrant large pictures and simple words are a great way to get kids to read along with parents at story time.
There is also an absolutely outstanding product available from Newmark called Sight Word Readers. This is a great way to teach little ones sight words, words which are read quickly and almost breezed over when reading. These books range in topic from baby animals to vegetables and counting. The astounding thing about this is, the sight words actually stick. After 2-3 “read throughs” to your child they will actually read along, then the next time they can read it themselves.
There are only a few words and they are all associated with pictures, which is fun for kids and not a “chore” or boring at all. It was wonderful for me to see my 4 year old son flip through a book, not guessing what it says but looking at the words and comprehending what they represent as well as reading them out loud. I know I was thoroughly impressed and enjoyed these books thoroughly. Give one book a try, I can almost promise you will be getting more in a few weeks. Sight words on cards are not fun. These are fun. And DVDs of sight words may be fun, but are not YOU spending time and interacting and encouraging your child. This is by far and away the best program I have ever used- I love it, it’s perfect for the classroom, and I will be telling other teachers about it as well.
Want to see how cute my son is reading? Check out the video! (Don’t worry, I didn’t record the whole thing, LOL)
Daddy had to tell him the picture of “lambs” though- he always says baby sheep. For some reason, “lamb” just doesn’t stick! Please forgive my NOT fabulous camera work. 🙂 But at least you can see how excited he is to read it. I thought junk camera work and real expression was better then me doing it again. Please forgive! LOL.
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I like the books and maps a lot. I can’t find your link follower on the sidebar. Will follow when I see it. Rita Spratlen rjspratlen@gmail.com
I like the Sight Word Reader: Animals on the Farm.
Those sight word books sound like fun
he is so happy !
I love it when they have a great time learning!