The Schwa Sound – The Third Sound of Vowels When teaching reading, it is quite common for teachers to not know about the schwa sound and therefore, not know to teach it. When a student is attempting to figure out the vowel sound in a word, and the vowel doesn’t… Read More
The holidays are fast approaching, and that in itself is unbelievable! I hope your school year is going well. Mine is – just so busy! In reading, I am getting ready to move from teaching Vowel-Consonant-e words to r-Controlled syllables. So thinking that you may be in the same place… Read More
Reading Tools in a Box is a box of reading materials that organizes teaching reading in the most simplistic way. I know when I was a younger teacher, I thought reading was teaching all the phonic rules that I could possibly squeeze in for the year. I never realized that… Read More
At the end of every school year, a common question that parents ask is: “How can I continue to help my child read and grow over the summer?” 1. Keep reading books on your child’s level. This way you know your child is reading on level which shows them… Read More
Over the past 5 years [2014–2019], I have administered a sight word reading assessment 100 times to a total of 42 students. Once this project was complete, I analyzed the data and found these 50 words to be the most missed sights words that students incorrectly read. The way I figured… Read More
When students are beginning to learn to read, I believe one of the most important strategies to faithfully employ is helping students to learn to be accountable to the text that they are reading on the page. As a special education teacher, this is one of the biggest challenges… Read More
Have you ever seen the following messages when trying to download a file with Windows? I wanted to post this article, because I just recently had an issue with Windows not downloading a file from my TpT site. I received a few comments after customers made a purchase that stating… Read More
When is it time to teach –r-Controlled words? I know as a teacher, I always wondered when it was time to teach -r-Controlled Syllables. After many years of teaching, I believe I have figured it out. And the answer is: when students have mastered simultaneously reading the Closed Syllable (also… Read More
Reading is based on how we introduce vowel sounds. There are approximately 20 vowel sounds (outside of Final Stable Syllable sounds and suffixes) for students to learn that are constant in their sounds. Therefore, if these sounds are introduced in progression, student can make sense of reading. The student learns to… Read More
Trying to figure out when to move from teaching short vowel words to teaching long vowel words can be a bit tricky. So when is the best time? I have found that when students have mastered reading mostClosed Syllable (short vowel family patterns), whether it is the regular or irregular… Read More
Subscribe for updates and instant access to my FREE Resource Library.
