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Tag: Mark Pennington
Teaching Reading to Your Child
Whether your child is in pre-school, kindergarten, or first grade he or she can and will learn to read with your help. Get free diagnostic assessments…
Word Families (Rimes) Activities
Although systematic explicit phonics instruction should be the core of beginning reading instruction, as a reading specialist I support an eclectic approach to ensure success for…
Sight Word Activities
Most every reading teacher places some value on sight words instruction; however, just what teachers mean by sight words varies more than the flavors at the…
Phonemic Awareness Activities
Find a summary of the reading research on phonemic awareness, get six free whole-class phonemic awareness assessments, an Mp3 of the "New Alphabet Song," and a…
How to Teach Continuous Blending
Teaching phonics is an essential ingredient to effective reading instruction. Learning the phonetic code teaches the beginning or remedial reader to make efficient and automatic judgments…
Phonics Games
Plenty of phonics-based programs do a fine job of providing that systematic instruction. However, some do the basic job, but will bore both students and teachers…
Teach Your Child to Read
One of the true joys and responsibilities of parenthood is teaching your child to read. But wait... isn't that the teacher's job? Of course it is,…
Standards and Accountability
The standards-based movement has ushered in a new era of accountability in public education with all of its attendant problems and teachers may be the ones…