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Wild Card winner: LeapPad Explorer
Not ready to hand over your iPad - or yikes, buy one? Our 2011 Golden Apple Wild Card winner - nominated by our staff - may be the next best thing for your early reader.
Third grade: What your child should know
Keep tabs on your third-grader's development with this handy checklist.
Dolch sight words: preK
For early readers, memorizing sight words is invaluable for literacy. Here are the 40 sight words that will help your preschooler start learning to read.
Dolch sight words: first grade
For early readers, memorizing sight words is invaluable for literacy. Here are the 40 sight words that will help your first grader start learning to read.
Dolch sight words: second grade
When young readers memorize sight words, they advance in confidence and fluency. Here are the 40 sight words that will improve your second grader's reading skills.
Dolch sight words: third grade
When young readers memorize sight words, they advance in confidence and fluency. Here are the 41 sight words that will improve your third grader's reading skills.
Dolch sight words: kindergarten
For early readers, memorizing sight words is invaluable for literacy. Here are the 46 sight words that will help your kindergartner start learning to read.
Dolch sight words: preK-3rd grade nouns
Young readers who learn sight words advance in confidence and fluency. Here are the 95 sight word nouns that accompany the preK to 3rd grade sight words your child should learn.
Be a travel agent
How you can help at home: Have your child plan a real or virtual trip - budget and all.
