Consider the similarities between reading and math skills to exercise. What happens when you stop for a considerable amount of time? Those g

This post is simply a list of places that offer opportunities for young readers to practice their sight words in a fun way and see the words

How a teacher approaches reading instruction needs to look different for early elementary-aged students versus junior high students.

Once little readers have an understanding of letters and their sounds, where they are able to identify consonant-vowel-consonant words, I

My job as a teacher who specializes in literacy is to provide learning opportunities that inspire a reader to enjoy the process of thinking

It is important to know words by sight because readers are able to spend less time on automatic word recognition and more time on understand

Sight words are the words that a reader should identify by sight. High-Frequency words are the words that appear most often in literature.

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Think about how you learn a new word and apply those same principles to your instruction. That is one way I think about instruction, the...

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Do you have students in your class or homeschool room that lack expression, ignore punctuation, read so quickly (or slowly) that they're...

As soon as my kindergartner mastered phonics, we began her first grade year learning what it meant to be a fluent reader. I knew that...

Let's get down to the basics and what the research reveals about how to approach teaching a beginning reader to read. It's pretty simple,...

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Every language consists of symbols with each symbol representing a sound. In English these are known as letters or letter combinations....

You want an environment filled with reading material readers cannot wait to read. The goal is that you reader hears the sound that...

My little girl is in Pre-K and does not want to do school most days. If I can get ten solid minutes on letters and numbers I'm absolutely...