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Why Mississippi Improved their Reading Scores…

November 14, 2019 By: Brittany Marker2 Comments

The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) is like the American Report Card on reading skills. The assessment has taken place every 2 years since 1992. Schools across America test 4th and 8th graders on a broad range of reading skills. Since the scores have been recorded, American kids have progressed very little in reading, […]

What are Decodable Books?

November 7, 2019 By: Brittany Markercomment

Decodable books allow beginning readers to practice their phonics skills. They are books that start with one vowel sound—usually short a as in cat—and they continue to add one vowel sound per set. This allows a student’s knowledge to progress systematically or step-by-step. Decodable books are key for strong reading skills, because they teach kids […]

A Letter Sound Activity with Interleaving

October 23, 2019 By: Brittany Markercomment

When kids learn letter sounds, and phonics sounds in general, they benefit from interleaving–a practice in which you mix up material. For example, if t is a new sound, and the student already knows d, m, s, a, then make an activity with all 5 of these letters. Mix them up so the student doesn’t […]

Letter Sound Activity for Beginners

October 17, 2019 By: Brittany Markercomment

Do you have a student who is learning letter sounds? Encourage beginners by introducing just a handful of sounds at a time. Never bombard your student with a lot of sounds at once. Instead, introduce 2-4 new letter sounds at a time. Also, review old letter sounds each lesson. Here is a free letter sound […]

A Cute Rhyming Story with a Phonemic Awareness Activity

October 10, 2019 By: Brittany Markercomment

Phonemic awareness is the ability to segment, blend and manipulate sounds. A phonemically aware student, for example, can answer “What are the sounds in Sam?” by stretching out the sounds: “Ssss-aaaa-mmmm.” Likewise, he can also get rid of beginning sounds. If you say, “Get rid of mmmm in map,” he can answer “ap.” Phonemic awareness […]

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November 21st, 2019

Did your student just learn letter sounds? If so, it's time to start decoding short a words. Short [...]

Why Mississippi Improved their Reading Scores...

November 14th, 2019

The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) is like the American Report Card on reading [...]

What are Decodable Books?

November 7th, 2019

Decodable books allow beginning readers to practice their phonics skills. They are books that start[...]

A Letter Sound Activity with Interleaving

October 23rd, 2019

When kids learn letter sounds, and phonics sounds in general, they benefit from interleaving--a pra[...]

Letter Sound Activity for Beginners

October 17th, 2019

Do you have a student who is learning letter sounds? Encourage beginners by introducing just a hand[...]

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