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📚 Word Families: a Reading Superpower

If you’ve ever watched a child slowly sound out every single letter in a word, you know how hard early reading can feel. Now imagine that same child suddenly recognizing patterns and reading multiple words with ease and fluency, that’s the magic of word families. Word families are groups of words that share the same ending pattern, like cat, bat, hat, and mat. While they may seem simple, they play a powerful role in helping children become confident, capable readers. What Are Word Families? Word families are sets of words with the same ending sound (often called a “rime”). For example: - -at family: cat, bat, sat, mat - -og family: dog, log, frog - -an family: man, fan, pan, can By learning just one pattern, children unlock the ability to read multiple words. Why Word Families Matter So Much 1. They Turn Struggling Readers into Confident Ones Instead of decoding every word from scratch, kids begin to recognize familiar patterns. When a child learns -at, they don’t just learn one word, ...
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I Live In Canada...Canada Day 2021 Reflections

A picture of 3 First Nations children in traditional dress
Photo Credit: Harvard Political Review 


I live in Canada...where are you from? What a question! I’ve asked it so many times during the videos I’ve shared over on the Tot Tutor channel but today this question has been cause for pause. Canada Day hit differently for many Canadians this year, following the grizzly discoveries of mass indigenous child burial grounds. 

Canada Day will never be the same again and maybe that's what's best. 

Many Canadians spent much of the day mourning and talking about the people who were here before us and the descendants who have been traumatized by the genocide.

I took time to learn about the Métis, the Inuk, the Mississaugas and the Three Fires Confederacy and others who stewarded the  land in days gone by and grieved at the historic mistreatment of the First Nations here and everywhere. 

Unfortunately this is a shared history in the Americas, Caribbean and elsewhere in the world and we need to make sure our young ones know the complete story of those who first inhabited these lands, their relationship to the land and how they took care of it.

We can also talk about big topics like friendship, broken promises, treaties and reconciliation.

Teaching accurate and complete histories (even if unpleasant and painful) to the upcoming generation is one way we can play our part in raising global citizens and  making sure the ugly parts of history never repeat themselves. ♥️




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