Early reading instruction builds the foundation for lifelong literacy. In elementary classrooms, this includes developing phonemic awareness, teaching systematic phonics, strengthening decoding skills, and supporting students as they build fluency and confidence. Strong early reading instruction is explicit, intentional, and responsive to student needs.
Open and closed syllable games and activities give students the hands-on practice they need to move from recognizing syllable types to reading and spelling multisyllabic words independently. Open syllables end…
I do not enjoy using too many worksheets in my classroom. I believe that students should be interacting with the content and each other. Whenever I create a worksheet for…
Blending Cards help students segment, blend, and read words in a variety of phonics patterns. They are great for kindergarten and first grade students or second or third grade students…
Word Family Phonics Readers for CVC Words include decoding practice, sight word practice, and three passages per word family. These phonics readers only include short vowel CVC words and sight…
Do kids learn to read in kindergarten? Most do—but not all —and my son was one of them. I am an elementary teacher who taught K–2 for years and has…
Understanding the difference between stop sounds vs. continuous sounds is one of the most practical things you can know as a reading teacher. How you model each sound directly affects…
If you teach early reading, consider how you are teaching your students to read. Do you teach students to memorize words? Or, do you teach them to sound out a word and…
When you sit down to plan what you’re teaching for your small group reading instruction, how do you decide the kind of text you are putting in front of your…
Working with other teachers is hard. No doubt about it. You all have different teaching styles and viewpoints on what is important and how to teach it. When teaching phonics,…
Do you teach and assess nonsense words? Do you know why you do it? There’s a reason why we teach these types of non-words in schools. In fact, teaching…
Phonemic awareness is a key component of early literacy development, particularly for preschoolers and kindergarteners. This skill is akin to an auditory playground where children learn to manipulate individual sounds,…
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