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Learn MoreFor students who are really struggling with spelling basics, sometimes it helps to scaffold their efforts by sharing the work with them. You can encourage your student to think of their spelling word in terms of beginning, vowel and ending sounds by asking them to only spell selected parts, while you … Continue reading >
Just when your students finally have their short vowel sounds down, along comes special closed syllables such as ind, ild, old and all that break the short vowel rules. In order to help students remember the keywords that help them remember the special closed syllables, I created a “Special Closed Syllable … Continue reading >
One strategy in helping students improve their reading fluency is to break down sentences into smaller chunks or phrases. These groups of words can then be practiced as a unit to move away from word-by-word reading. However, instead of starting at the beginning of the sentence, I’ve found it works … Continue reading >
You may not think of review words as a place in the lesson where you can work on anything other than practice sounding out words, but by asking questions about the words they have just read, you can sneak in some comprehension and additional phonemic awareness practice as well! For … Continue reading >
It is important to help students understand how a syllable is made up of a beginning sound, a vowel sound and an ending sound. We practice this by having three piles of cards in the blending drill, but do you also help students see that this same concept applies when … Continue reading >
How can students show you where they think a multi-syllable word should be divided? When reading words with more than one syllable, I often ask my student to show me where they’re going to split the word to divide it into syllables so that they can see each syllable and … Continue reading >
