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place value
By Tracy

I use the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears. I told my kids that in every house there is a baby bear and he is one years old, a mama bear who is perfect size 10 and a daddy bear who pays for everything using 100 dollar bills. I tell them that all bears have the same first name.
one bear, ten bear, and 100 bear. So to tell them apart they need last names. So, there is the ones family, thousands, and millions. My kids actually can remember this story. I also color code the families for my dyslexia students. Ones are orange, thousand tan/brown, millions maroon/purple. They kids color the house on the numbers before they work.