As a reading interventionist, I often meet kids that are behind in sight words. One student, Jesse, a first grader, didn’t know her sight words. She was stuck reading low level kindergarten books. At school, she was given a list of 100 words to memorize. She practiced them everyday. Yet, she didn’t retain them. It […]
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Long ea Words (with FREE Phonics Book)
Struggling readers require a lot of practice with long ea words. Some long ea words include: seal, heat, meal, fear, real, dean, treat…etc. Usually long ea words are taught with long ee words like: feel, sleet, free, gleam, bleak, seem, cheek…etc. More long ea words Long ea words make the long e sound. They contrast […]
Phonics Rules for K-2
As an expert reader, you’re brain rips words apart into smaller components so quickly, you’ve ceased to recognize phonics rules. You can’t recall what they are. Or how you learned them in the first place. You’ve become like an expert cellist who can no longer teach notes incrementally. How am I supposed to teach my […]
abc Phonics Sounds for Kindergarten
You’re working with your Kindergartner on abc phonics sounds, and you realize you’re not sure what letter sounds to teach! This is normal. As we teach abc phonics sounds, we see that there are multiple sounds for each letter. For example, /a/ says “ay” as in vacation and it also says “a_” as in cat. […]
Best Way to Teach Alphabet Recognition
Daniel finished Kindergarten. His parents were shocked to discover that their son couldn’t recognize letter sounds. Not a single one. They worried that their son had dyslexia, a memory deficit or another learning disability. Why didn’t our child learn letter sounds, they wondered. What is the best way to teach alphabet recognition? If you’re a […]