What should students be working on independently while you teach small groups? This is a question that is continuously asked in my building and on social media. As teachers, we recognize the importance of time. There’s never enough time to do it all, so it’s imperative that all time students spend at school is purposeful. Below you’ll find many simple, evergreen ideas for word work ... Read More about Literacy Centers Aligned to the Science of Reading
Improve Fluency with Vowel Intensive Drills
A vowel intensive drill is the perfect way to open a small group lesson for students struggling with phonological awareness. Benefits include strengthening awareness of medial sounds, vowel sounds, and phoneme-grapheme correspondences. How It Works: Each student gets a set of vowel tents. You can give them all of the vowels at once, or you can give 2 or 3 at a time. (When I first start ... Read More about Improve Fluency with Vowel Intensive Drills
Teach Kids How to Decode Words
Beginning readers need to be explicitly taught how to sound out and blend unknown words. This will require lots and lots of modeling of using the alphabetic code: matching graphemes and phonemes. The goal of code-emphasis instruction is to help students automate sound-symbol associations to decode words accurately. Through lots of practice and exposure, they will begin to ... Read More about Teach Kids How to Decode Words
Phonics Fluency Games
When it comes to explicit phonics instruction, students need lots of practice both decoding (reading) and encoding (writing). It's easy to make decoding fun with phonics games to practice fluency! Check out my favorite ways to get kids reading with no-prep games that are easy to implement with any skill. Gamify Decoding Practice Tic-Tac-Toe This is the easiest option when you ... Read More about Phonics Fluency Games
Try Word Chaining for Phonics Practice
Looking for a new activity for your small group phonics instruction? Try using a word chain! Word chaining is like word building, but better, because it adds another level of thinking. Using a word chain gives students the opportunity to build words, but also to recognize differences between similar words. Word chains draw attention to the individual phonemes that make up words and their ... Read More about Try Word Chaining for Phonics Practice
What is orthographic mapping?
You may have heard the term “orthographic mapping” more and more often lately. Wondering what it is and how it benefits students? Let me break it down simply for you. What is orthographic mapping? “Orthographic mapping is the process we use to permanently store words into long-term memory.” - David Kilpatrick In other words, orthographic mapping is not a classroom task or activity - ... Read More about What is orthographic mapping?
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