Science of Reading in Action Book Study Guide
There’s nothing like a good book study to help things really click – you hear takeaways from other teachers that you may have missed when […]
Is Your Curriculum Science of Reading Aligned? Watch Out for These Signs!
Are you curious if your curriculum is science of reading aligned so you can ensure your students are receiving the best reading instruction possible? If […]
What’s the Best Order to Teach Phonics?
Teaching phonics skills is a lot like baking a cake. Skipping ahead or missing a step, almost always makes your lessons flop. Students are either […]
Free Teacher Planner
This free teacher planner is *jam packed* with helpful planning pages, sanity saving organization sheets, and inspiring covers the will help keep you planned and prepped allllllll year […]
Alphabet Chant
When students are first learning to read, written letters look like meaningless shapes on a piece of paper. They might as well be squiggles or […]
Word Chains
Get ready to fall in love! Word chains are an easy but powerful way to build important literacy skills including phonemic awareness, decoding, encoding, AND […]
What letters should I teach first?
It can be hard to know which letters to begin teaching when you are working with beginning readers. Do you teach them in A to […]
45 Phonemes (and why they matter)
Fun fact: The 26 letters in English actually make FORTY-FIVE different sounds called phonemes! (Some experts squeeze the list down to as little as 42, […]
The 7 Jobs of Silent E
Did you know that the silent E is an extremely busy letter? It has SEVEN jobs! And somehow, the silent E also finds time to make it difficult […]
What’s the BEST Order to Teach Vowels?
Spoiler alert: Teaching vowels in the traditional order A, E, I, O, and U can actually be confusing to new readers. Several of the sounds are […]