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Tag: phonics

Free Science of Reading Lessons | Grade 4
Many grade 4 teachers are curious about the Science of Reading and (SOR) and, specifically, what a complete SOR phonics-based lesson looks like for struggling readers…

Secondary Reading Intervention
If you were tasked with developing a secondary reading intervention program from "the ground up," where would you start and what resources would you consider using?…

Create Decodable Text with Artificial Intelligence
Reading specialists, language coaches, SLPs, EL/EB, SPED, and reading teachers will appreciate a new free tool to create decodable text with artificial intelligence (AI). The recently…

Sounds to Print Phonics Games
Grades 4-adult reading intervention teachers need efficient, evidence-based instructional resources, such as these free sounds to print phonics games, to accelerate reading and spelling acquisition. Students…

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…

FREE Sound Wall Resources
FREE Sound Wall Resources provide teachers and students much more than colorful bulletin boards or replacements for Word Walls. For students who struggle with making the…

How to Teach Heart Words
Want to watch how I teach two Heart Words to older reading intervention students and lead them in guided practice? Check out my "real-time" (7:52) lesson…

Guided Reading and the Science of Reading
My take is that we don't have to throw the baby out with the bathwater. Some of guided reading is research-based and makes complete sense: the…