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Tag: phonemic awareness

Grammar & Mechanics May 29, 2024

Phonemic Awareness for Older Students

Phonemic awareness openers are key instructional components for older students in The Science of Reading Intervention Program. Of course, the trick is that in your reading…

Grammar & Mechanics Aug 15, 2022

The Science of Reading Intervention Program: Assessment-based Instruction

There's never enough instructional time to teach students who struggle with reading. However... The Science of Reading Intervention Program: Assessment-based Instruction provides diagnostically-based instructional resources to individualize…

Reading Aug 23, 2021

Phonemic Awareness for Older Kids

Having recently reviewed Literary Resources LLC Bridge the Gap (Heggerty), I wanted to share my own approach to teaching phonemic awareness to older kids. My reading interventions…

Reading Aug 9, 2021

Sound-Spelling Cards

Reading teachers know the value of picture mnemonics to help students master phoneme-grapheme relationships. After all, a picture is worth a thousand words. Sound-spelling cards can…

Reading Jul 14, 2021

The Science of Reading Intervention Program

This evidence-based, SoR-aligned, accelerated program has been designed for struggling readers ages 8-adult. The 54 lessons each include 5 Daily Google Slide Activities.

Literacy Centers May 28, 2018

Flexible Phonics Instruction

There is no doubt that explicit, systematic phonics instruction has its place in reading instruction with greater instructional continuity and success than with hodge-podge synthetic, analytic,…

Literacy Centers May 27, 2018

Dyslexia Is Not Real?

I agree with the conclusion of the International Literacy Association in response to the criticisms of the International Dyslexia Association: "In other words, there is no…

Literacy Centers Apr 14, 2018

ESL Reading Assessments

The best ESL resources are ones which are assessment-based, not program-based. Clearly, one-size-fits-all ESL resources would not work equally as well for divergent English-language learners. Catering…