If you love understanding reasons for spellings and pronunciation of words as I do, you will love these videos! Enjoy,

Every syllable can have one and only one vowel SOUND, and therefore, the type of vowel in a syllable determines the syllable type. In...

Whenever I am teaching children, adolescents or adults, my mind it going in at least two directions - what concepts, facts and procedures...

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...

This week during our How To Teach Reading and Spelling cohort meeting, several of the literacy teachers spoke about the fact that they...

If we look at the elements of literacy, we see that decoding and spelling words, as well as phonemic awareness activities to reinforce...

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:...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Louisa Moats is a researcher and one of the best in the field of literacy education who as served various roles as teacher, researcher,...

Scarborough's reading rope is a vaulable visual to understand how aspects of phonological awareness, decoding, site word recognition all...

I received this question recently from a teacher on Facebook: Has anyone had experience with a student mastering a level and then when...

As we all have been teaching virtually I have found that providing thoughtful time for movement for my students has been valuable. Here...