Does writing instruction with little people leave you scratching your head? I know that lately we've been talking a lot about the components of structured literacy / small group reading lessons, but I've got something I have to share with you! While we have a dedicated writing block, I like to ... read more
Quick Tips to Actually Build Phonological Awareness During Structured Literacy
OK friends, at this point it's no secret that developing phonological awareness in our young readers is imperative to their success as a reader. These skills absolutely are taught whole group, but lets face it... some kids need additional practice in a small group setting, like structured literacy, ... read more
How to Help Students Discover Patterns in Words with Word Families
One of my favorite (and most impactful) things to work on with young readers and writers is word families. What are word families? A word family is a group of words with a common feature or pattern. For example... cat, rat, mat, and bat all belong to the -at family because they follow the ... read more
Word Ladders: A Powerful Tool That’s So Easy it’s Silly
Have you ever heard of word chains or word ladders? They are such an easy and low prep way to build in phoneme blending, segmenting and manipulation during your structured literacy small groups. What's the difference in word chains or word ladders? Well... there isn't a difference! Both ... read more
How to Effectively Use Decodable Readers
We've got a solid understanding of why we should be using decodable books to teach young readers - they can be aligned with the phonetic patterns you've taught and they help us teach students to attend to all letters in a word when reading instead of guessing at words. But, even when we know ... read more
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