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Learning to Read
Movement and Reading | NPT3
Season 2022
Episode 28
Movement helps get the blood flowing to our brains. We can use movement to work on literacy awareness skills as well; in this case, playing with syllables. Ask kids to use a marching step to count syllables. Come up with a short list of words that have two or more syllables. This can become their vocabulary list.
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