Julia uses an anchor chart, songs and whole brain teaching to review the 7 syllable types. Julia reviews previously learned skills. Then she uses an anchor chart, songs, and whole brain teaching to ...

As ubiquitous as colored pencils and alphabet posters, lists of “sight words” have long been a fixture in kindergarten and 1st grade classrooms. These inventories identify some of the most commonly ...

Julia starts by doing a mindful moment 5 finger deep breathing exercise. In this lesson, Julia starts by doing a mindful moment 5 finger deep breathing exercise and discusses some learning strategies ...

If you were to poll an audience of educators–classroom teachers, literacy specialists, reading researchers, and university professors–about whether high frequency words should be taught in early ...

Nine preschoolers were taught the sounds for letters and a segmenting blending strategy for decoding words. For 90 lessons, five children segmented words by not pausing between successive sounds to ...

Effective communication lies at the heart of human connection. It helps us collaborate with each other, solve problems and ...

On a chilly Tuesday back in January, my 7-year-old son’s classroom in Minneapolis was humming with reading activities. At their desks, first- and second-graders wrote on worksheets, read independently ...

We know that many children are failing to learn to read in our nation’s classrooms. So it’s tempting to hope that tutoring by artificial intelligence could provide a solution. But how close are we to ...

Why are some sounds easier to remember than others? A study on made-up words points to the harsh consonants that also dominate profanity.