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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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  • Phonics, Resources

My Favorite Reading Games

There’s nothing quite like a game to take worn-out and wound-up children and bring them back to center.  There have been days where I could see that my typical lesson was not going to work, because my kids didn’t have enough gas left in their tank to make it through.  It doesn’t happen often, but on those days I give
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  • Phonics, Resources

Spring 2022 Decodable Awards

You know I love decodables.  One of my first blog posts was about why they are important and the difference between leveled and decodable readers.  Not all decodables are created equal, and I don’t use the same ones for all my students.  So today, we’re going to talk about my favorite decodables for specific purposes.  I’m talking favorite for beginning
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  • Phonics, Science of Reading

The Power of Cumulative Review

Before becoming Orton-Gillingham trained, I rarely reviewed.  I “taught” my spelling features for the week and then expected my children to magically remember those rules forever.  I was still using leveled texts, so there was no review of skills in connected text.  I knew I needed to do more, but I didn’t know how to make it all fit into
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  • Phonics, Resources

Word Chaining: Practices That Work

I’ve talked a lot about word chains, but realized I’ve never dug deeply into why they are important and very explicitly explain the steps to take.  So today, I’m diving deep into why and how, without extra fluff.  (Look, I’m even keeping the intro short so this doesn’t become one of those recipe blogs that tells you the entire history
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  • Science of Reading

Kids Don’t Have to Love Reading

I identify as a reader so much, I literally had a Harry Potter wedding. But that doesn’t mean my children have to love reading like I do. As teachers, we tend to be voracious readers.  I wear my identity as a reader on my sleeve and quite literally on me at all times (I have a Harry Potter tattoo).  Becoming
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  • Book Reviews, Reading Research, Uncategorized

Book Review: Reading for Life by Lyn Stone

Fun fact: my best friend Rachel and I bought this book for each other this Christmas without realizing what the other one was doing! I’ve read a lot of books about teaching reading.  Some have been great, some have been meh, and some have been so dense I have to wait until I’m on a break to read them because
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  • Phonics, Resources

The Science of Reading and Teachers Pay Teachers (pt. 2)

I think Teachers Pay Teachers is great (biased, I know).  But honestly? I think it can also be terrible for someone who doesn’t know what they are looking for.  There are a LOT of, let’s just say questionable, resources out there.  If someone were just looking for Science of Reading resources, they might run across something that isn’t aligned with
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  • Phonemic Awareness, Reading Research

Addressing Key Issues in Phonemic Awareness

The issue of phonemic awareness right now is HOT.  I can’t go to Twitter or Facebook without seeing another heated argument over phonemic awareness.  It can be overwhelming, it can get nasty (who would’ve thought, right?), and it can feel disheartening.  I felt like I had just learned about teaching phonemic awareness and then I had to completely change my
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  • Fluency, Phonics

Let’s Talk Running Records

               I was the queen of running records.  You should see the composition books I had where I took a running record on every child in all of my groups almost weekly.  I didn’t need a form, I didn’t need any fancy technology.  All I needed was a book, a kid, and my notebook.  I was so proud of my
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  • Phonics

You Can Still Give Spelling Tests

As I entered the Science of Reading world, I heard a lot about how people were ditching spelling tests.  When I was in the classroom, I had between 4 and 5 different “word study” groups, and each group had a spelling test on Friday. So that meant I spent over an hour each Friday testing children on their words.  When
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