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Phonemic Awareness Activity for Beginning Readers
Phonemic awareness activities should be simple. If your student is ever confused by the directions, then it’s not a good activity. Phonemic awareness is an awareness of discrete sounds and the ability to segment, blend and manipulate them. A phoneme is the smallest unit of sound. “Whale,” for example, contains 5 letters, but only 3 […]
Sight Word Tips for Struggling Readers
Sight words are common words that break the phonetic code. They are used frequently and make up about 60% of the written language. Although they are commonly used, they are a tiny fraction of all the words in English in total. There are about 120 sight words worth memorizing and about 170,000 words in English […]
Dinosaur Sight Word Activity for Kindergartners
Sight words break the phonetic code in some way. Many pieces of sight words are phonetic, like the /th/ in the and the /c/ in could. However, every sight word has at least one component that is not phonetic. For example, the /e/ in “the” is irregular and the /oul/ in “could” is also irregular. […]
How to Determine Reading Level of a Book and Lesson
Accuracy rates are important in reading instruction, because they help educators level materials. If a child is reading below his level, he’s not learning. If he’s reading above his level, he gets frustrated and gives up (often after a meltdown). To get the level right, you need to use some simple math formulas outlined in […]
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