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Category: Phonics

What the National Reading Panel Says About: Phonics

Synthetic phonics is more effective than embedded phonics. Phonics is ubiquitous. You honestly can’t read an education article or listen

My 5 Phonics Must-Haves

   I am the queen of simplicity and anti-hoarding.  If I haven’t used it in the past year or two, it’s

The Decodable Story We All Need: An Interview with “Monster and Friends”

When I first heard from the author of “Monster and Friends,” I didn’t really think much about it. The author

The Power of Decodable Folders

This is one of the decodable texts I use from The Literacy Nest.                Do you want your students to

Practices That Work: Sound-Symbol Mapping

A  few months ago, I started a series of blog posts where I do a deep dive into specific instructional

My Favorite Reading Games

There’s nothing quite like a game to take worn-out and wound-up children and bring them back to center.  There have

Spring 2022 Decodable Awards

You know I love decodables.  One of my first blog posts was about why they are important and the difference

The Power of Cumulative Review

Before becoming Orton-Gillingham trained, I rarely reviewed.  I “taught” my spelling features for the week and then expected my children

Word Chaining: Practices That Work

I’ve talked a lot about word chains, but realized I’ve never dug deeply into why they are important and very

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

Let’s Talk Running Records

               I was the queen of running records.  You should see the composition books I had where I took a

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