Summer Bucket List Challenge
What Can Teachers do to reinvent that passion for teaching this summer? For many of you, these last few school years have been...
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Comprehension Strategies
This is a video of a 4th grade student, working on reading to comprehend for the first time. She is quite advanced in her decoding...
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Syllable Types and Mapping Multi-Syllable Words
Everyone is excited about teaching syllable types and mapping multi-syllable words. Watch the video to see some teachers exploring how...
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Teacher Question
Teacher asks: I recently started working with a 7-year-old boy. He will be starting the 2nd grade but is a very beginning reader, and his...
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Single Vowel Staircase
Let’s start at the very beginning, a very good place to start, when we read we begin with A, B, D…… Wait a minute, why do we skip C? In...
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That tricky letter "C" step card
In my never-ending quest for review activities, today I made up a lesson to review the letter “c”. My first question for my student is:...
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Teaching the Articulatory Features of the Consonants, Part 1
All students need to know the relationship of the consonant and vowel sounds and the letters that represent them. (Sound-symbol...
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The Vowel Staircase and the Articulatory Features of the Consonants, Part 2
An Example of Teaching The Vowel Staircase and the Articulatory Features of the Consonants With a 4th Grade Student I know that many...
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Thinking about how to Teach Orthographic Patterns
Much of the work that we do in the How to Teach Reading and Spelling, Bringing the Science of Reading into the Classroom course focuses...
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Teaching Letter Formation
As you know, readers, I am working with a kindergartener. One of the important things I am learning from her is how to gauge the timing...
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Teaching Little Learners
I am having a golden opportunity: I have begun working with a young, beginning kindergartener and her mother and father. This child ...
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Expository and Narrative Summary Sheets
Learning how to tell the difference between narrative and expository text formats helps students comprehend the texts more efficiently...
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Consonant Articulation Sorting Activity
I created this practice activity which can be used once the consonants and their articulatory features have been taught. This is great...
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Dialogue Cards
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Handwriting Observation Form
A recent participant in my course "How To Teach Reading and Spelling: Bringing the Science of Reading Into The Classroom," Philip Tse,...
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Thinking About Teacher Training
A full year of creating professional development learning experiences has unfurled since returning to my goal of sharing my knowledge of...
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How One Teacher Applies the Science of Reading In Her Classroom
Susan Case was a recent participant in my course How To Teach Reading and Spelling: Bringing the Science of Reading into the Classroom. ...
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Feedback Dialogues
The course content and learning goals in, How to Teach Reading and Spelling: Bringing the Science of Reading into the Classroom,...
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Feedback Strategy: Mistakes Dialogue
I have been working on an accompanying manual to my text book "How To Teach Reading and Spelling: Brining the Science of Reading Into The...
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Word Study Guide Book
Asking students to define terms and organize ideas in their own words helps them to remember and understand those terms and ideas. When...
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