There are ways to let your children play this summer and still help boost their reading without paying for tutoring sessions or struggling with your children over spending time working on reading.
Something about this process worked so well with these first graders that before very long, most of the class was on their SIXTH list of 100 words! By the end of the year, in the last week or so of the school year, I found myself making an EIGHTH list of 100 words for three of my kids.
There are some words that are just hard to remember how to spell, and if they sound the same as each other, it simply compounds the problem. Here are a few of the tricks I used with my students when teaching these three words.
