It's always so much fun listening and watching our young readers figure out those "longer" words. Many of our little ones are pretty solid decoding one-syllabe words and are now ready to learn strategies for decoding multisyllabic words. So, really, what is a syllable? Simply … [Read more...]
Teaching Phonemic Awareness Skills
Phonemic awareness is the ability to hear and manipulate the sounds in spoken words and the understanding that spoken words are made up of sequences of speech sounds. The child's level of phonemic awareness upon entering school is one of the strongest indicators of how well … [Read more...]
Halloween Themed Game Boards
Halloween is just around the corner and it's time to add a little holiday spirit into centers and small groups. These Halloween-themed game boards might just do the trick. There are 9 boards using words from the Dolch 220 sight word lists. You can easily differentiate your … [Read more...]
What’s all the Nonsense about Teaching Nonsense Words?
It’s been nearly 10 years now that our schools have been using the Dynamic Indicators of Early Literacy (DIBELS) Next as a school-wide reading assessment. DIBELS was first introduced as part of Reading First and fit so nicely into our new Response to Intervention initiative. … [Read more...]
Write It Phonics Cards for Vowel Teams
The Make, Take & Teach Write-It Phonics Cards have been one of the all time favorite activities for literacy centers for practicing targeted phonics skills. I started with the beginning and ending sounds and am slowly but surely working my way up the phonics ladder. I just … [Read more...]
Popcorn Words
The Dolch sight word list is a list of 220 words that make up between 50-70% of the words we encounter in text. Most of these words are "service words" that must be quickly recognized in order to read fluently. Many of the words cannot be sounded out and they need to be learned … [Read more...]
Research-Based Reading Intervention Strategies
I found this really great book. I mean A REALLY GREAT BOOK! I attended a conference a few weeks ago and came across Elaine McEwan-Adkin's book 40 Reading Intervention Strategies for K-6 Students: Research-Based Support for RTI. I opened the book, took a few minutes to … [Read more...]
Multi-Sensory Activity for Teaching Letters and Sight Words
I love using plastic screens for introducing and practicing letters and sight words. Plastic screens can be found in any craft store (Michaels or JoAnn Fabrics) or in the craft section of most department stores. When I use the screens for teaching letters, I typically cut one … [Read more...]
Teaching Phoneme Segmentation
Phonemic awareness is one of my favorite topics relating to literacy instruction. Studies of reading development have demonstrated that the acquisition of phonemic awareness is highly predictive of success in learning to read. It's so important that our beginning readers have … [Read more...]
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