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Archives for November 2020

Silent e Holiday Worksheet

November 29, 2020 By: B Markercomment

Kids usually learn the silent e sounds at the end of Kindergarten or beginning of first grade. Here is a silent e holiday worksheet that your student can read and color: Silent e Pdf Explicitly teach the difference between short vowels and silent e. Teach the difference between short vowels and silent e by presenting […]

Reading During School Breaks

November 22, 2020 By: B Markercomment

Students have many breaks throughout the year, including summer, a week off in November, 2 weeks off in December and 1 week off in spring. That’s a lot of off time. Should kids read during school breaks? There’s quite a lot of research that shows breaks have harmful effects on learning. When kids return from […]

Consonant Digraph Words

November 15, 2020 By: B Markercomment

Kids learn to read consonant digraph words in kindergarten. First, beginners learn short vowels: a_ (as in words like hat, Pam), i_ (as in him, sit), o_ (as in hot, mop), u_ (as in run, bug), and e_(as in hen, pet). Next, kids practice these simple short vowel cvc words quite a lot, gain some […]

Chunking as a Sight Word Strategy

November 8, 2020 By: B Markercomment

Kids need to learn to read and spell sight words. These are words that break the phonetic code in some way. For example, “there” is a sight word, because although the /th/ and /r/ sounds are regular, the e_e sound is not. If we spelled “there” phonetically, we would write “thair.” There are about 100-150 […]

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What are Long Vowels?

March 1st, 2021

Kids typically learn long vowels in first grade. Long vowels are common vowel patterns and it's imp[...]

List of Phonics Sounds

January 24th, 2021

There are 44 phonemes in English. A phoneme is the smallest unit of sound. “Shop” for example conta[...]

What is Phonics?

January 17th, 2021

Phonics is a method of teaching reading that focuses on sound/symbol correlations. Phonics advocate[...]

Homeschool Resources for Elementary Reading and Math

January 10th, 2021

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Holiday Long Vowel Worksheets

December 13th, 2020

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