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Teaching Letter Sounds: Classroom Activity
Phonemic awareness is the ability to recognize the individual phonemes (sounds) in words. This skill is the foundation of all reading. To help children become strong readers, we must take time to teach letter sounds. Games can make letter sounds a whole lot more fun...
Practice Beginning Letter: Classroom Activity
Beginning letter sounds are the sounds—or phonemes—that start words. For example, the word cat starts with the phoneme /k/. The word bat starts with phoneme /b/. When teaching young learners how to read, it is important to start with building phonemic awareness....
Kids Learn To Read: Classroom Activity
Kids usually learn how to talk without any special instruction - but learning to read is a totally different process! Reading does not come naturally to kids; it’s a skill that must be explicitly taught. Before kids can learn to read, they need to learn about sounds....
Learn How To Read Step by Step
How will children learn how to read? Phonics is the preferred method to teaching children to read because it is supported by research and science proves that it works. Phonics relies on scaffolded training, so children learn how to read without being overwhelmed....
Bats and Cats! Letter Sounds for Preschool
It’s Halloween time, when all the ghosts and witches and zombies come out to play! Get your young learners excited to learn letter sounds for preschool with a spooky rhyming game. Bats and Cats helps children learn ending sounds through playful rhymes. This is a...
Halloween Bingo! Letter Sounds for Kindergarten
Halloween Bingo is a wonderful way to practice letter sounds for kindergarten. They get to play a game with their classmates while coloring Halloween-themed images. Most importantly, they learn to recognize words that start with the similar phonemes. When it’s...
Professor Pup Teaches Preschoolers How To Read
Learning reading skills is a top priority for parents with toddlers. Our kids’ ability to read hugely impacts all other aspects of school and learning. This is why we need to use the most effective method available when teaching kids how to read. What is the best...
Pre-K Phonics: Five Things To Know
When you lead a classroom of young learners, the responsibility to teach them the skills to read can be overwhelming. Different teachers have different solutions. Some prefer to only read aloud and have children memorize sight words. Other teachers prefer phonics...
Learning To Read Books: Basic Building Blocks IV
The phonics approach to learning to read books follows certain steps. First, children learn phonemes used in the English language. Second, they learn the graphemes, or the visual representation of phonemes. Once children have learned their phonemes and graphemes, they...
Blending and Segmenting: Basic Building Blocks III
Your child has mastered phonemes. They understand graphemes. Now, they are learning to read. But how does that happen? Learning to read is not an easy task, but with a proper foundation in phonics, the challenge becomes very doable. In fact, this is when...
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