Are you looking for Halloween phonics stories to get your students in the spirit of October? Here are links to 2 free phonics stories, leveled by grade: Halloween phonics story for …
Foundational Skills in Reading
There are a number of skills students need to master in order to read. Educators can break down the components of reading into subskills, and these subskills are the essence of k-2 literacy …
Teaching Phonics & the Stages of Reading
Phonics is the relationship between letters and sounds. Teaching phonics involves: phonemic awareness activitiesexplicitly teaching phonics sounds making and reviewing sound charts sound cards …
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Short Vowel Reading Passages
In the following FREE short vowel reading passages, beginners can practice sound-by-sound reading strategies. In the following story "What's in the Grass?" kids can practice reading short vowel …
Why Phonics is Fun
Most educators and parents want their students to fall in love with reading. After all, many of us are bibliophiles and we know the personal and professional benefits of reading. Some may hesitate to …
The Best Decodable Books
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When do you get a child off decodable books?
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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Teaching r-controlled sounds
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 …
How to Teach Sight Words
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 …
Inflectional Ending /ing/ Worksheet
Are you working on teaching your student the /ing/ ending? Here's a fun /ing/ worksheet your student can read and color: ing Pdf Short Vowels and the /ing/ ending In this worksheet, teach …
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