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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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Kindergartners should know consonant digraphs by the end of the year, including: sh, th, ch, _tch, _ng, _ang, _ing, _ink, _ank, wh_. Since kindergartners should also know short vowel sounds, they can …
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 …
Are you teaching your student to read inflectional endings? To help your student learn how to read inflectional ending words like gliding, sitting, walked... etc., teach him to understand inflectional …
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Typically kids learn to spell inflectional ending words in second grade. However, this can vary depending on the curriculum the school is using. Some kindergartners begin learning inflectional endings …
