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 …
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 …
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 …
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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 …
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Phonics Letters and Sounds to Review
If you have a struggling reader, teach them how to read using sound cards. To master phonics letters and sounds, students need to see each unit individually. If they learn to recognize phonetic units …
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Teaching Consonant Blends
Kennedy had to memorize consonant blends for school. The reading curriculum at school suggested that teaching consonant blends was synonymous with memorizing them. As a result, Kennedy memorized the …
6 Year Old Reading Level
When you held your baby, you read her lots of books. All throughout her life, you showed her the value of literacy. You took her to the library often and let her flip through the board books. You held …
6 Year Old Struggling with Reading
When Damon read, he looked at the pictures often. He said each word in one utterance. Unlike other beginning readers, Damon rarely used sound-by-sound reading methods. If the picture proved unhelpful, …
Best Books for Struggling Readers & The Worst Books Too
Are you looking for the best books for struggling readers? You might find yourself overwhelmed the options. In this post, I describe the different types of early reader books. Each early reader book …
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Short Vowel Sounds in English
Short vowels are the most important sounds in early literacy. Young kids must master short vowels before learning all other vowel units. There are many vowel sounds in English. If a kid misses short …