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Want to know how the Science of Reading applies to your classroom? Keep reading to discover what the research suggests, and how we should teach phonics and phonemic awareness to help all students learn to read.

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  • Book Reviews, Phonics, Science of Reading

Book Review: “Uncovering the Logic of English”

I tend to talk too much, so let me get straight to the point.  Every month or so, I’m going to do a book review for a book that I’ve found helpful on my journey towards the Science of Reading.  I’ll keep it short, with minimal verbal floof on my part!How many times have you heard the words, “English doesn’t
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skill based intervention phonics (2)
  • Phonics, Small Group

Skill-Based Instruction: Phonics Intervention

I wish we could all take days to peek inside each other’s classrooms and learn from one another.  I’ve actually taken a personal day to travel an hour to one of my favorite teacher’s school so I could see how she teaches.  My goal anytime I go to a professional development or watch someone else teach is to try and
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skill-based intervention alphabet and letter sounds
  • Alphabet Knowledge, Phonemic Awareness, Phonics, Small Group

Skill-Based Intervention: Phonemic Awareness and Letter Sounds

We need to start this post with a mantra, and I want  you to hold on to this mantra as long as needed.  Are you ready?  It might be hard to say, but I promise it is important.Repeat after me:  I do not have to rush kindergarteners into reading books.Seriously.  Say it again, and this time I want you to
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  • Phonics

Decodable is not a 4-Letter Word

If you are a math teacher who is teaching multiplication to their students, what does their practice look like?  Do you give them 25 problems where 15 review addition and subtraction, 5 are division (even though you haven’t taught that yet), and only 5 problems practice your target skill?  OF COURSE YOU DON’T.  You know that in order to be
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  • Phonics, Teaching Tips

Teaching Heart Words

Sight words.  High-frequency words. Red Words. Heart words.  Who cares what they are called as long as your kids learn them, right?  And to a certain degree you are right.  But, I do think there are some key differences.  So, let’s talk vocabulary and then get to the good stuff—how we teach them to our children.          I used to think
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