Phonemic awareness activities that older students find fun? [TL;DR. Get Funny Phonemes on the App Store or Google Play.] In a…
An Amazing Resource for Literacy Instruction If you’re not familiar with Spelfabet, the website of Alison Clarke, then by all…
“Advancing Evidence in Practice” Prompted by a list of Decodable book sources I found on their Facebook page (and available…
[September 2018 Update: There’s new app called Funny Phonemes by our own Greg McDonald specifically designed to make phonemic awareness…
We recently made available online a free beta version of the decodability analysis tool that we use to guide us in…
What is an Open Syllable and Why are they Important for Emergent Readers? My previous post considered the importance of…
What do we mean when teachers and speech pathologists classify words using capital letters like CVC? When teachers and other…
Why do some teens need phonics? The simple answer to this is that some teenagers still can’t read efficiently at…
There are so many beautiful books on library and classroom walls that are designed for emergent readers. Sadly, very few…