The Adventure Begins . . .

"Guide for Learning Your ABC's"

Support your early learner with this sleeve of easily sliding alphabet cards.  Put one in and slide it to reveal a letter, its sound and a picture.  Simple for parents and fun for children, the sleeve also provides a place for writing the child's name and a tracking system for letters/sounds learned.

Portable with all cards contained in the sleeve.

Includes both upper and lowercase letter cards.

Growing Readers Daily

Columbiaville Elementary
​Meets
​ Read to a Seed

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Parents, students and staff enjoyed an evening of reading together with new books and their Read to a Seed Literacy Kits.  

​Atherton Elementary School
Atherton Elementary School gave a Read to a Seed literacy kit to each student at the end of the school year.  Each week, during the summer, students were invited to bring their plant and receive an extra book.  Students read, measured and charted their (and their plant's) growth.   Additionally, those students who brought their plant back on the first day of the next school year received a prize.  

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Read to a Seed Visits Applewood

Ways reading together impacts your child

Modelling

Fluent, expressive reading makes listening pleasurable and enjoyable fostering the development of listening skills.

Incentive

Reading together spurs the desire to read independently using their newly acquired skills.

Vocabulary

Introduces, through listening, new words and phrases improving cognitive and communication skills.

Ways Read to a Seed Can Help

Non Readers

Listen to your voice
Watch your motions
Follow the wheel colors
Look at the wheel pictures

Beginning Readers

Practice new reading strategies
Interact with the wheel
Develop a daily habit
Read aloud to something

Independent Readers

Read aloud to themselves
Read aloud to  others
Practice fluency
Reinforce a daily habit
Enjoy watering their plant

Testimonials

​"I like it because reading to the seed makes it grow bigger and it makes me a
better reader."

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"I just started my plant.  Then, I can begin to read to it.  I'm so excited!"

​"We listen to each other read".

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"Can't wait to get home to share
​with my seed".

​ "It's so cool when we read together (with the seed).  It's like we're reading to a person, but it's a seed!"

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" We loved the read to a seed. He is still reading to it and he asks to read to it. Before he would put up a fight to read.

I feel like this program is exactly what my child needed. I loved the read to a seed assignment. It made my child actually want to read for the fun of it instead of it being a chore. Thank you all so much for dedicating your time and energy into helping my child succeed."

According to research. . .

• Reading 20 minutes a day with your child has a positive and lasting impact on their reading behaviors.
• Phonemic Awareness (the ability to identify and manipulate individual sounds (phonemes) in spoken words) is critical to a child's literacy development. 
• Even after children learn to read by themselves, it is still important for you to read aloud together.

​"We're not sure what it says, but we're glad he's reading to us".

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Read to a Seed Add Ons

Add some items to enhance your reading fun.  How about a fleece flashlight holder?  A flashlight? A fleece pencil, marker, pen holder?  Message me when ordering.  

A "good book" will never become a "good book", until you read it. 
                                                                      Karen Ramm