Spelling Jeopardy- What Are The Questions I Should Be Asking?
One of the teachers I mentor was reviewing her student’s written assignment and the question she asked was, “When do I tell my student...
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How To Build Lessons Plans Using the Science of Reading Part I
This is my schema for teaching reading and spelling of individual words. When I am lesson planning and teaching, I begin on the left-hand...
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UFLI Word Chains for Decoding and Encoding Practice
The University of Florida Literacy Institute is an endless resource of high quality teaching tools, which I use constantly in my own...
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Copy of Inflectional Morphemes
Inflectional Morphemes are suffixes that show number/plurals, -s/-es, possession, -‘s, -s’, past tense, -ed, and continuing action,-ing,...
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Why Does Q Almost Always Go With U
If you love understanding reasons for spellings and pronunciation of words as I do, you will love these videos! Enjoy,
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Teaching Syllable Types
Every syllable can have one and only one vowel SOUND, and therefore, the type of vowel in a syllable determines the syllable type. In...
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Thinking About Teaching Literacy
Whenever I am teaching children, adolescents or adults, my mind it going in at least two directions - what concepts, facts and procedures...
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Student Created Resources
I often times will ask my students to create their own resources to use at home for learning. Creating resources is a useful tool for...
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The Importance of Teaching Consonant Pairs
This week during our How To Teach Reading and Spelling cohort meeting, several of the literacy teachers spoke about the fact that they...
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How To Structure At Home Literacy Work
If we look at the elements of literacy, we see that decoding and spelling words, as well as phonemic awareness activities to reinforce...
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Step Card for Teaching the Letter C
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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Writing as a Multidimensional Act
I will never forget the series of AH-HAH moments I experienced when I went to a week-long workshop in Colorado with Maureen Auman, author...
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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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Megawords 1: Morphology Activities
This week I have worked with several students using Megawords 1 . One student is in 4th grade, one in 5th grade and one entering 10th...
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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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Syllable Puzzle
I woke up this morning thinking about syllable types and how they were like puzzle pieces, for any word you make it up of different...
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Teaching Reading IS Rocket Science
Louisa Moats is a researcher and one of the best in the field of literacy education who as served various roles as teacher, researcher,...
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Scarborough's Reading Rope
Scarborough's reading rope is a vaulable visual to understand how aspects of phonological awareness, decoding, site word recognition all...
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