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​Educator's Resources
Making teaching & learning more enjoyable and effective
Christian Emergent Readers
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(for the beginning reader, ages 4-6)
​- Each Walden Wonders emergent reader (first, early readers) has a Christian emphasis -

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                  Bible Story Series
                          Creation                                    Adam and Eve                         
                          
Cain and Abel                          The Flood                      
                          
The Tower of Babel                 God's Promise to Abraham 
                          Visited by Angels                     Sodom and Gomorrah                                                    Jacob's Ladder                        God Gives 10 Rules
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Bible Story Series - 2

​         10 Rules That Help Us                         Jacob Returns Home
         Joseph Has Ups and Downs              Job is Faithful

         The Rescue of Moses - 1                     The Rescue of Moses - 2
         The Burning Bush                                Escape from Egypt
​         Bread from Heaven                             God Provides Water

                   Attributes of Emergent Readers                                                                              Using Emergent Readers
  1. Relative artwork assists reader with vocabulary                                             1. Encourage child to read what they can, getting clues from the illustrations.
  2. Repetitive text aides learning                                                                           2. ​Have child read each page after you.
  3. Sight vocabulary opportunity                                                                            3. Stress the use of expression where appropriate.
  4. Application-of-learning activity on last page of each booklet                        4. When child can read booklet well they may color it!                                    
  5. 8 1/2" x 5 1/2", with 8 pages of text in each                                                     5. Then, they take it home and read it to their family. 

                                                                              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 (FREE SHIPPING)
                  Kindergarten Knowledge Series                                                            Kindergarten Skills Series
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​                                                                                                                   I Get Ready for School  
                                           God Made Colors
                                           More Colors God Made
                                           God Made Shapes
                                           More Shapes God Made
                                           Trace and Draw Shapes God Made
                                           I Learn Place Words
                                           I Know My Body Parts
                                           I Know My Alphabet
                                           I Know Numbers to 20

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       God Wants Me Healthy                         My Senses Help Me Learn
        God Loves Gardens                              4 Seasons
         Where I Live                                           I Know Size Words                                 I Can Add and Subtract                         The Weather
​          Which is More? Less?                            I Know Landforms
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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, or anyone who just likes a good story book. 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.  $14.50 (FREE SHIPPING)
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More Products designed to bring every child to success.
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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  

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AND NOW - Christian Emergent Readers!! (First, Beginning Readers; see above)
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Introducing myself: Hi! 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!
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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.

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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