25+ Gift Ideas For Learning To Read

It is that time of year when we scramble to find Christmas presents that a meaningful and thoughtful. This is what led me to create this gift list of handpicked phonics and reading products. Not only are these reading products great as gifts, but they are also perfect for classroom settings(if your budget allows). Some of these products come highly recommended by my Home-school pals too.

Maybe you are looking for guidance to teach your child to read or perhaps you are looking of ways to assist your teacher friend in their workplace? How about gifting a learning tool to the classroom? Maybe your child’s teacher doesn’t need another coffee mug but instead would appreciate some hands-on learning games and products so that they can continue to teach young children to read and write.

We have hand-selected 25 products that are great learning games and tools and you can see the full list here. Make sure you pop back as we add more and more products as they become available on the market. We would also LOVE for you to share your product reviews and suggestions too, make sure to leave a comment below if you know a product that is worthy of a mention to this list!.

Several countries have a day set aside to honor and recognize their inventors, but Nov. 9 is a special one that’s known as Tag der Erfinder in German. It’s celebrated in Germany, Austria and Switzerland and it falls on Nov. 9 because that’s the birthday of Hedy Lamarr.

Hedy Lamarr is widely known as an actress but there’s a lot more to her story. You can get a little of it geared to little kids in the Little People, Big Dreams book Hedy Lamarr (32 pages, hardcover, published 2023 by Frances Lincoln Childrens Books, suggested retail price $15.99).

The book explores her birth in Austria and how she spent time when she was young coming up with inventions. She became an actress, married an arms dealer, made her escape to America and became an actress again.

But she also helped develop a frequency-hopping signal device for airplanes that was used by the Americans and their allies during World War II. That technology became the basis for wireless technology such as wifi and GPS.

While Inventor’s Day is a great time to learn about Hedy Lamarr, you can take this opportunity to check out books and do little studies on lots of different inventors. If there’s an inventor or an invention your child is particularly interested in, that’s a great place to start. It’s fun to think about all the things we use every day that didn’t always exist; someone had to invent them!

For a start here at Craft Gossip you can learn more about Garrett Morgan, who invented traffic lights; Maria Oroso, who developed a clay oven that could cook food without electricity; and more female inventors and scientists.

And for more general inventors’ fun, check out this inventors word search from Fun Findery (and another from Let’s Do Puzzles) or take a quiz on inventors and their inventions from Flanders Family Home Life.

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