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Tag: phonics

Grammar & Mechanics Jan 2, 2024

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…

Grammar & Mechanics Aug 18, 2023

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?…

Grammar & Mechanics Dec 31, 2022

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…

Reading Oct 26, 2022

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…

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…

Grammar & Mechanics Oct 1, 2021

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…

Reading Aug 21, 2021

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…

Grammar & Mechanics Apr 19, 2020

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…