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Decodable books (also called phonics books) allow children to practice the most common phonics sounds. They are beginning level stories that help kids feel like successful, confident readers, even …
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Structured literacy is a new term (but not a new method) for systematic phonics instruction. This type of reading instruction includes teaching phonics sounds systematically (one at a time), phonemic …
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Structured literacy is the new buzzword for systematic phonics instruction. Numerous attempts across decades have failed to get systematic phonics instruction into classrooms. As a result, systematic …
Kids usually learn r-controlled sounds in first or second grade. These sounds can cause some confusion during spelling activities. For example, if you have your student spell "card," he might …
Sight words are common words that are not entirely phonetic. For example, "the" is a sight word. "The" has a phonetic component /th/ and an irregular component /e/. Thus, the student needs to break …
