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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, Reading Research, Uncategorized

Book Review: Reading for Life by Lyn Stone

Fun fact: my best friend Rachel and I bought this book for each other this Christmas without realizing what the other one was doing! I’ve read a lot of books about teaching reading.  Some have been great, some have been meh, and some have been so dense I have to wait until I’m on a break to read them because
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  • Phonics, Resources

The Science of Reading and Teachers Pay Teachers (pt. 2)

I think Teachers Pay Teachers is great (biased, I know).  But honestly? I think it can also be terrible for someone who doesn’t know what they are looking for.  There are a LOT of, let’s just say questionable, resources out there.  If someone were just looking for Science of Reading resources, they might run across something that isn’t aligned with
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  • Phonemic Awareness, Reading Research

Addressing Key Issues in Phonemic Awareness

The issue of phonemic awareness right now is HOT.  I can’t go to Twitter or Facebook without seeing another heated argument over phonemic awareness.  It can be overwhelming, it can get nasty (who would’ve thought, right?), and it can feel disheartening.  I felt like I had just learned about teaching phonemic awareness and then I had to completely change my
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  • Fluency, Phonics

Let’s Talk Running Records

               I was the queen of running records.  You should see the composition books I had where I took a running record on every child in all of my groups almost weekly.  I didn’t need a form, I didn’t need any fancy technology.  All I needed was a book, a kid, and my notebook.  I was so proud of my
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  • Phonics

You Can Still Give Spelling Tests

As I entered the Science of Reading world, I heard a lot about how people were ditching spelling tests.  When I was in the classroom, I had between 4 and 5 different “word study” groups, and each group had a spelling test on Friday. So that meant I spent over an hour each Friday testing children on their words.  When
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  • Phonics

10 Ways to Practice Phonics Skills

I love teaching children how to read.  I enjoy teaching in general, but teaching phonics is just SO. MUCH. FUN.  So today, I want to talk about 10 different ways I practice a phonics skill with kids.  Each activity is something I do with my kiddos, and all of them are meaningful ways to practice reading and writing. I am
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  • Phonemic Awareness

Sounder and Friends™: An Interview with the Creators

The characters from Sounder and Friends™. Recently, I had the chance to sit down and speak with Laura and Heather, the creators of Sounder and Friends™, an educational show airing on PBS (and streaming on You Tube) that focuses on developing phonemic awareness in young children. They also have a free phonemic awareness app coming out! Today, listen in as
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  • Resources

5 Free Websites I Can’t Live Without

There’s so much great stuff on the internet, which is amazing.  But then again, there’s SO. MUCH. stuff on the internet.  How do you sort through what’s out there to find what you need?  Today, I want to talk about 5 websites I can’t live without.  All 5 are free, and all 5 make my teaching a little bit easier. 
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  • Vocabulary

Whole-School Vocabulary Building

The value of vocabulary knowledge and word consciousness cannot be underestimated.  We know that once decoding is out of the way, it is how much relevant background knowledge and vocabulary a child has that will be the biggest factors in determining whether or not they understand a text (Wexler, 2019).  But friends, there’s a lot of words out there to
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  • Reading Research, Resources, Science of Reading

Which Science of Reading Training Should I Take?

I will always be amazed at how hard teachers work.  I get messages each week from parents and teachers asking me which trainings they should take.  People are willing to spend their own money to get the education they need to help children be successful. Today, I’m going to compare 3 of the top trainings supported by the Science of
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