A Generous Gift!

 Hello again, my faithful blog readers! I truly appreciate knowing that people (at least a few) are reading my blog posts. I hope they are getting something out of them. 

Anyway, the reason for this post is that I know someone who homeschools her kids, and they have outgrown reading phonics books. I work with a first grader who is an early reader, so she donated ALL of the books she had for that reading level! Thirty-three of them! I'm all set to have books for my first-grade student to read as she becomes more confident in the words she is learning. I am so thankful! I will need to look over them and put them in order from easiest to most challenging, as I glanced through a few of them and definitely saw a difference in the amount of reading in each book. They are just short stories that can be read in a few minutes, so I might have her read two books each session. After she has finished all of these, she should be ready to move on to chapter books for young readers!


 


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