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 as I am in reading,Read More
Reading Tools in a Box
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 there was actually a scopeRead More
50 Sight Word Students Misread the Most
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 the data was if aRead More
When is it time to teach r-Controlled Syllable Type Words?
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 known as short vowel words)Read More
Moving from Teaching Short Vowel Words to Teaching Long Vowel Words – A Critical Reading Step!
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 look at the letters aroundRead More
When is it time to teach long vowel words? A Critical Step!
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 patterns, then they are readyRead More
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