Kids start working on r-controlled vowels in late first grade or early 2nd grade. R-controlled vowels include: ar as in shark er as in clerk ir as in swirl ur as in burn or as in …
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 …
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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Spelling Inflectional Ending Words
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 …
List of Phonics Sounds
There are 44 phonemes in English. A phoneme is the smallest unit of sound. “Shop” for example contains 3 phonemes: sh-o-p. If you are new to the subject of phonics, you can pretty much substitute the …