Three Secrets You Must Know About Teaching Phonics Secret #1: Reduce What the Student Needs to Learn to the Smallest Possible Number of Sounds & Sound Combinations Getting children or adults to attach a sound to a specific symbol or group of symbols is no easy job, but if you do it correctly, you can reduce the task to teaching just 63 soundsContinue reading “Three Secrets You Must Know About Teaching Phonics”
6 Tips for Making Decoding Words Easy Tip #1 – Start with the 1000 Most Common Words There are hundreds of thousands of words in the English language. How do you teach a student all of those words or even most of them? The 1000 most common English Words comprise 85% of everything we read. If you want to be efficient, youContinue reading “6 Tips for Making Decoding Words Easy”
A More Effective Way to Teach Spelling Most kids have had spelling instruction as part of their language arts curriculum. The most common strategy used by teachers is to provide the student with a list of 20 -25 words, usually each Monday and to ask the students to learn to spell those words for the test on Friday. You probably remember doingContinue reading “A More Effective Way to Teach Spelling”
