Teaching Students To Memorize Strategies Doesn't Work!
Young Readers Need Something More!
As a reading specialist in grades K-2, I have been using the Beanie Baby reading strategies along with various other programs to meet my students’ beginning reading needs. When my students made a personal connection to the Beanie Babies, the strategies they represented began to stick. Although they love the beanies, I felt like the strategies they taught could go much deeper. I began to develop more co