Education Week

Is Phonics Boring? These Teachers Say It Doesn’t Have to Be

Want to know if it’s time for phonics in Belinda Williams’s kindergarten classroom? Stand in the hall and listen. “I love phonics because it’s something that’s so easy to make fun,” Williams said. “We ...
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BLEND SOUNDS/PRACTICE R-CONTROLLED VOWEL AR

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PRACTICE TWO-SYLLABLE R-CONTROLLED VOWELS

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The critical role of phonics assessment in the Science of Reading

Phonics is a cornerstone skill, both in the context of the Science of Reading as well as across curricula. If students do not have the basic ability to read words on a page, any other instruction a ...
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How Many Vowels Are There in English? (Hint: It’s More Than AEIOUY.)

How many vowels does English have? Five, right? A, E, I, O, U. Oh, and sometimes Y. So, six? Actually, English has at least 14 different vowel sounds and, depending on the speaker and dialect, maybe ...