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 …
A Spelling Activity to Learn Inflectional Endings
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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Chunking as a Sight Word Strategy
Kids need to learn to read and spell sight words. These are words that break the phonetic code in some way. For example, "there" is a sight word, because although the /th/ and /r/ sounds are regular, …
Fluency Reading Strategies
Do you have a student that can decode accurately, but reads slowly? If so, your student may need to read more leveled texts. This is the only proven tactic of all the reading fluency strategies. It is …
Sounding Out Words and Why Kids Struggle
Your student is in Kindergarten. He knows letter sounds. Yet, when he tries to string letters together to form a word, he forgets the first or middle sound. “H-aaaa-t… um does that say hit?” he says. …
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