Decoding is a crucial skill for beginning readers as they learn to make sense of written words. Decoding requires two essential skills: Phoneme blending and letter-sound knowledge. As soon as students know a handful of letters, they can begin decoding words with those sounds. (Read more about how to integrate decoding into your alphabet instruction here.) Decoding strategies provide a structured ... Read More about Decoding Strategies for Beginning Readers
Using Word Sorts to Boost Phonics Skills
Word sorts are an essential tool in phonics instruction, but are you using them to their full potential? When done correctly, they can go beyond simple categorizing to help students deeply understand phonics generalizations and apply them to their reading and writing. Word Sorts are simple, interactive, and incredibly powerful when done right. In this post, we’ll explore how to effectively use ... Read More about Using Word Sorts to Boost Phonics Skills
Science of Reading Assessments
Science of Reading-Aligned assessments are a vital tool in identifying students' strengths and areas for growth. By using a combination of screeners, diagnostic assessments, and progress monitoring, teachers can provide targeted instruction to help every student succeed.After getting the classroom ready, welcoming the kids, and going over routines, it'll be assessment time. I know it can be boring ... Read More about Science of Reading Assessments
Successive Blending: A Decoding Strategy
Successive blending is a great decoding strategy to use in the early stages of reading instruction, particularly for those who have difficulty blending sounds to read words. This technique helps students gradually combine individual phonemes or sounds in a word to build fluency, accuracy, and confidence in reading.What Is Successive Blending?Successive blending is a phonics strategy that teaches ... Read More about Successive Blending: A Decoding Strategy
The Science of Reading in Your Classroom
It's been exciting to see the Science of Reading spreading over the past few years! The science of reading is a body of research investigating how children learn to read and which instructional approaches are most effective. The research spans over 50 years! This information has been there, but for some reason, it is just recently being translated into practice. Thanks to Emily Hanford's articles ... Read More about The Science of Reading in Your Classroom
Teaching Silent Letters
Teaching silent letters can be tricky! Silent letters appear all throughout the English language. The most common combinations are wr, kn, gn, and mb. Although I’ve seen that it is common to teach these all at once as “ghost letters”, I actually teach silent letters at different times. Surprisingly, students do tend to catch on very quickly to silent letters. In this blog post, we'll explore ... Read More about Teaching Silent Letters
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