Click the following link to download this free handout . Developmental Sequence of Phonological Skills Teaching phonological and phonemic skills is such a critical component in helping our little learners acquire the necessary building blocks to become proficient readers and … [Read more...]
Phonemic Awareness Intervention Kit
Years ago we started using the DIBELS assessment to screen students for reading difficulties and to monitor at-risk students throughout their intervention. We had all this wonderful data, but there seemed to be a gap between the data and then exactly how to use the data to guide … [Read more...]
Tools for Teaching Phoneme Segmentation
The ability to separate the sounds of a word is called "phoneme segmentation". It's a critical skill in both learning to read and write. By six and a half/seven years of age students should be able to tell you the sounds in a word. So, for example, if given the word "cat", the … [Read more...]
Phonemic Awareness Activities – Just Grab and Go!
Last year I was cleaning my basement getting ready for our annual garage sale and came across all those old Disney movies housed in VHS cases. Although our VHS player is long gone and the kids are now into their late teens and twenties, parting with those old movies was pretty … [Read more...]
Race Car Blending
Here's a super fun way for teaching students to blend words. Just a quick little stop at the dollar store to pick up a few race cars and you're all set. Simply provide each student with a racing track and a car and have them say the sounds of the letters as they move the car … [Read more...]
Helping Students Move to Blending Consonant-Vowel-Consonant Words
Our seven school districts changed from using the DIBELS 6th Edition to the DIBELS Next this school year. Following each benchmark assessment we were just a little bit nervous (actually, really nervous) as to what our data would look like. Would any changes we see be a result … [Read more...]