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Want to know how the Science of Reading applies to your classroom? Keep reading to discover what the research suggests, and how we should teach phonics and phonemic awareness to help all students learn to read.

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  • Science of Reading

Small Steps Towards the Science of Reading

               Making the shift towards the Science of Reading can be overwhelming.  If you are starting this on your own, without the support of your school and county, it can seem impossible.  I mean, if it were really the best thing for kids, we’d all know about it by now right? I wish it were that simple.  You want to
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  • Reading Research, Science of Reading

The Science of Reading

This was intended to be my first post when I launched my blog. As I began writing, though, I was overwhelmed with the idea. My apprehension came because this is just too important to mess up, too important to do half-heartedly. But today, I’m writing for those of you who, like me, are still overwhelmed sometimes with the Science of
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  • Alphabet Knowledge, Phonemic Awareness, Teaching Tips

Keys to Kindergarten Success

               How comfortable are you with writing the letter e?  I think, at this point in our lives, we’re pretty solid.  Since we are so good at it, we could probably teach it to others, right?  How would you explain writing the letter e to a child who is just learning their letters?  “You start kind-of halfway down the line. 
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  • Phonics

Decodable is not a 4-Letter Word

If you are a math teacher who is teaching multiplication to their students, what does their practice look like?  Do you give them 25 problems where 15 review addition and subtraction, 5 are division (even though you haven’t taught that yet), and only 5 problems practice your target skill?  OF COURSE YOU DON’T.  You know that in order to be
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  • Phonics, Teaching Tips

Teaching Heart Words

Sight words.  High-frequency words. Red Words. Heart words.  Who cares what they are called as long as your kids learn them, right?  And to a certain degree you are right.  But, I do think there are some key differences.  So, let’s talk vocabulary and then get to the good stuff—how we teach them to our children.          I used to think
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  • Science of Reading, Teaching Tips

Introductions are in order

               I’ve started and stopped this first post several times.  The idea of putting myself out there as some kind of expert in the Science of Reading is not only daunting, it’s just wrong.  I’d like to start by saying I’m not an expert—I’m not a researcher, a published author, or a professor.  I do not stand on the shoulders
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