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Title of Drjeanandfriends: "Dr. Jean Feldman & Friends Blog - Songs, Music, Activities & Downloads"

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I CAN READ! ENVIRONMENTAL PRINT
Environmental print is one way young children “read pictures” and develop visual literacy. Using environmental print at the beginning of the school year is a great way to help children make print connections, develop visual memory skills, and motivate them to read. Mother Hubbard’s Cupboard
Ask children to save food wrappers from snacks and their lunches. Glue wrappers to sheets...

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SCHOOL GLUE
Just a dot! Not a lot!Just think if you were a little kid and you had never held a bottle of glue before. Wouldn’t it be fun to squeeze it all out? Sometimes we forget that children need directions on how to use school materials. Tell children, “We just need to use a baby dot of glue. Not a mama dot or papa dot. Just a tiny, little baby dot.” (Be dramatic with this and say “baby...

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LEFT TO RIGHT
Training eyes to move from left to right and then reverse sweep is a key to beginning reading and writing. A simple, yet powerful way, that teachers can do this is through modeling. Make it a habit to sweep your hand from left to right under words or lines of print on charts, big books, white boards, and so forth.Right & Left Song(Tune: “Up on the Housetop”)Here is my right ...

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READY TO WRITE
Children can have fun as they practice pre-writing strokes and train their eyes to go from the top to the bottom and left to right.Top to Bottom Song (Dawna Hunter) (Tune: “Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes”) Top to bottom, Left to right. Top to bottom, Left to right. My mind knows that writing always goes Top to bottom, Left to right. Pencil StoriesPencil stories using story symb...

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PENCIL GRIP
It's important to encourage children to use the correct pencil grip when they begin to write. Here are tips for teachers and parents in class, online, anytime!!!Silly Band Give children a silly band (or rubber band) to go around their wrist. Pick up your pencil and then slip the end of the silly band around the pencil. Explain when you go in the car you wear your seat belt, and ...

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