Letter Names with Reese, Kindergartener
Reading expert Linda Farrell works with Reese to master the name of every letter. Learning the name of every letter is a critical pre-reading skill.
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Say It, Move It
This is a lesson plan and student material sheet for a “Say It and Move It” lesson that explicitly teaches students to segment words.
Identifying Ending Phonemes
Use this lesson plan to explicitly teach students to identify the final sound in words.
Phoneme Identification Assessments
Use these diagnostic assessments to understand which phoneme isolation skills need instruction.
Quick Look: Blending Phonemes
In this brief video, Jennifer Rogers works with her students on blending sounds into words.
Blending and Segmenting Games
This Reading Rockets article provides materials and resources for several activities to teach blending and segmenting. The authors provide research that supports the use of each of these activities.
How and When To Use Decodable Readers for Maximum Effectiveness
Discover how to effectively incorporate decodable text into phonics instruction in this recorded webinar by PATTAN, featuring Linda Farrell. Learn the critical role of decodable texts in early phonics instruction, when to introduce and transition from them, and how to track student progress. Gain insights into reinforcing advanced phonics patterns and the difference between decodable…
Phinder
Phinder is a free website designed to help educators generate lists of words with a target grapheme-phoneme correspondence or orthographic pattern. Select one or more grapheme-phoneme correspondences, and Phinder will generate a list of words with those patterns organized by frequency. These words can be used for word reading and spelling instruction and practice.
Structured Literacy in Kindergarten: 5 Key Changes That Made All My Students Readers
This IDA Ontario webinar by Kate Winn focuses on 5 key changes that educators can make in their Kindergarten classroom. In this webinar Kate talks about screening, phonological and phonemic awareness, phoneme-grapheme correspondence, decodable texts, writing, and vocabulary/knowledge.
Part 1: Becoming a Literacy Leader Workshop Series
This IDA Ontario Webinar focuses on the importance of universal screening for all students so that we can change instructional practices to meet student needs. This is the first in a series of panel discussions with educators who are at the forefront of implementing early reading screening in Ontario.
7 Mighty Moves: Research-Backed, Classroom-Tested Strategies to Ensure K-to-3 Reading Success
In this reader-friendly book for K-3 educators, teacher and author Lindsay Kemeny outlines 7 classroom moves to improve literacy instruction, including the areas of phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary and background knowledge. Each chapter focuses on one move and embeds research while offering practical classroom strategies. This text is available for free through the Ontario…
Bringing Words to Life: Robust Vocabulary Instruction
This educator-friendly book, written by reading researchers, outlines the rationale for vocabulary instruction, and how to implement it in classrooms from K-12. It supports the Vocabulary expectations of the B2 Foundations of Language strand of the curriculum, and includes chapters on selecting words, how vocabulary can be taught in early and later grades, and assessing…