WORDS.  They roll off our lips.  They magically appear at the tips of our pens.  They make us smile and laugh and think and be. WORDS give kids great confidence and ease… whether through speech or the written word or both. It’s been raining WORDS here at 365 Days of Literacy for Kids during the month of April.  WORDS.  WORDS.  [...]

Have you ever seen the wide-eyed excitement of a child when he or she learns a new WORD? It’s one of the most amazing experiences in the world. Here on 365 Days of Literacy for Kids, it’s all about talking, laughing, fun and SHARING WORDS.  No drills.  No recitations.  No quizzes.  Just working a poem, a phrase, a word into [...]

April Showers bring Word Powers in the forms of RAINFALL and SNOWFALL with these 3 letters: QPF Put up your umbrellas, kids… because QPF is the Quantitative Precipitation Forecast. The QPF is the expected or predicted amount of precipitation for a specified region over a specified time period. -  QUANTITATIVE: Relating to, measuring, or measured by the quantity of something [...]

So… we’ve learned some awesome ANIMAL WORDS… dobbin, kob, lammergeir, muntjac, naked mole-rat and olm. We’ve learned a few just plain old INTERESTING WORDS… aubade, beaux, crinigerous, eye rhyme, fritinancy, gneiss, hallux, ides, jentaculum and pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. And, of course, there are the always fun BODY PART WORDS… hallux and today’s word:  patella Why say kneecap when you can use an [...]

Let’s swim right into our WORD of the DAY:  olm (Hint: swim) Not enough of a hint?  Here’s another: The olm is sometimes called the “white salamander”… or the “human fish” because its skin resembles that of a white human being. Ah.  Now we know that the olm is an amphibian. The olm is eel-like, or snake-like, and can grow [...]

I didn’t plan APRIL SHOWERS bring WORD POWERS to morph into ANIMAL WORDS… but I’ve received so many comments about how much kids are enjoying the ANIMAL WORDS that I’m bringing on the menagerie! Let’s open the gates and part the wild grass to see what or who peeks out.  OK.  We have the dobbin, the kob, the lammergeir and [...]

Word Power Shower! Today’s WORD: muntjac Sometimes called the “Barking Deer” because of its sustained bark-like sound when alarmed, the muntjac is a deer.  Male muntjacs are extremely territorial browsers and grazers, and the muntjac population is common to Asia, found in forests and areas of dense vegetation. There are several species of the muntjac, and some are even used [...]

April Showers bring Word Powers! How about the power in this word?  lammergeir The lammergeir, also known as the Bearded Vulture, is a bird of prey whose habitat is mountainous terrain in primarily Asia and Africa.  The lammergeir is a scavenger, feeding mostly on the bone marrow from the carcasses of dead animals. But one of the most interesting characteristics of [...]

Day 102 of 365 Days of Literacy for Kids – Fun, Easy & Completely Do-able… April is all about WORDS.  WORDS are the foundation of Literacy. Get your kids excited about WORDS. Get your kids talking about WORDS. Get your kids talking about this WORD today:  kob No, it’s not cob as in corn-on-the. This kob is a noun… an [...]

Each day of April is bringing showers and showers of WORD POWERS here on 365 Days of Literacy for Kids – Fun, Easy & Completely Do-able. Join the fun!   Today’s WORD: Let’s get an early start with jentaculum… Need a HINT? OK.  jentaculum is considered an obsolete word, but it’s certainly not considered an obsolete meal. Thinking.  Thinking: Early [...]