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   New Products!
​Christian Emergent Readers
  (for the beginning reader, ages 4-6)

  ~ Every Walden Wonders emergent           reader has a Christian emphasis ~
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   Kindergarten Knowledge Series -->
Attributes of Emergent Readers
  1. Relative artwork assists reader with vocabulary
  2. Repetitive text aides learning            
   
Using Emergent Readers
  1. Encourage child to read what they can, getting clues from the illustrations
  2. Have child read each page after you
  3. Stress the use of expression where appropriate
  4. When child can read booklet well they may color it!
  5. Then, they take it home and read it to their family
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    Kindergarten Skills Series -->

Teaching Skills in the Typical Kindergarten Curriculum
  1. Teaches and/or enhances learning of core skills
  2. Combines knowledge and skill
  3. Advances child's reading skills

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A list of vocabulary words used in each booklet appears on the back cover of the booklet. If you would like the file of vocabulary words for one series or the other (formatted to print onto 3x5  note cards) simply email me and I will be happy to email the file to you. Free!

Each series (10 titles) $11.40 (price includes S&H)
My first book, Teaching is Sometimes like This: So Much More than Lesson Plans, is for teachers: new teachers, those interested in the teaching profession, and veteran teachers. It's a collection of 66 stories from my teaching experience with an Essential Learning from each. Some stories will elicit laughter, some tears, frustration, fear, humor - all parts of teaching. Copy the following email address to go straight to the book on Amazon, or search the title. Enjoy!      https://www.amazon.com/dp/198351909X/sr=1-1/qid=1521127936/ref=olp_product_details?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=1521127936&sr=1-1 ​
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Products designed to bring every child to success.

Turn the pages of this site (at the top of this page) to find resources for:
~ Math  (cue cards) [our most popular items] 
​~ Classroom Discipline (only 3 rules needed!)
~ Christmas Program                       
~ Reader's Theater (choral reading)
~ Rebus Choral Reading (for beginning readers)       
 ~ Money Management/Classroom Management  

                    ~ AND NOW - Christian Emergent Readers!!
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Introducing myself: My name is Mary Ann Walden. I'm a christian educator of 33 years experience, 27 of them in various combinations of PreK - Grade 10, having taught one-room schools for eleven years. Yes, that's all eight grades in one room, just like early American schools.
                            Mental whiplash all day long!
​                                                                    But, oh, the memories...

The last six years of my teaching career were spent training future christian educators at a private college in Arkansas. Most satisfying job I've ever had!

Recently retired, I am writing books aimed to enable children to fall head-over-heels in love with God.

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Ever since a colleague  introduced this very-reluctant-to-touch-a-computer teacher to technology I've thoroughly  enjoyed developing teaching resources and devices to enhance the learning of my students. This site showcases (and hopefully sells) a few of the items I've developed that have been especially beneficial to my students. (I will be developing new products from time to time, also, as the Lord inspires and leads.

The "Birth" of Walden Wonders:
Several years ago the school in which I was teaching downsized and I was out of a job. "What to do?" We loved our home and our church so didn't want to move.

The Lord gave me the idea of marketing some of the products I had developed and used with such success in my classroom. Few new businesses are lucrative during the start-up phase, mine was no different. Thus, the name: Walden (my last name), Wonders (It's a wonder how we're going to pay the bills, and it's a wonder what God's going to have me doing next.). God blessed and met our needs during the entire start-up process. Praise God!
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​Proud of you, Grandboys!! ​
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​You've found success.
Walden Wonders:   
            Mary Ann Walden
            P.O. Box 16
​            Chilhowie, VA 24319-0016
            (865) 804-9676
            VTeach4Life@att.net

* Unfortunately, I can only ship within the USA.

    To Contact Walden Wonders:
Turn the page (at top) for field-tested, proven, enjoyable, even some award-winning, educational products...
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