Stuck doing remote or distance learning? Do you homeschool? Encourage kids to learn and practice reading at home or in the classroom with these online reading programs and apps. Try any of these engaging digital reading programs or apps to help kids with phonics, reading comprehension, and fluency.
Read this complete Explode the Code review to find to out why we switched to this phonics-based, budget-friendly reading curriculum!
Freedom Homeschooling lists free homeschool language arts curriculum for all grades. Grammar, reading, spelling, handwriting, and more!
I'm a reading teacher that scoured the Internet to find the very best (and free) phonics websites for kids where students learn by playing games!
Confused about the schwa sound? Read this post to find out how to help your child understand schwas with these 6 simple strategies.
Find the best ways to test reading level online, tips for getting an accurate score, and what to do with the results!
Finding out what a student knows about phonics is made easy with this quick and simple phonics assessment for K-3 readers! And it's FREE.
Try these 5 fun and easy ways to gamify your phonics activities that will get your students up and moving!
Freedom Homeschooling lists free homeschool language arts curriculum for all grades. Grammar, reading, spelling, handwriting, and more!
Freedom Homeschooling lists free high-quality homeschool reading curriculum for all grades. Complete programs, not supplements.
Adding some fun games for reading in the classroom schedule will instantly get your kids excited to read! These 5 fun reading games are...
Before purchasing the ABeka Phonics program, find out what homeschool curriculum items are needed and what are a waste of time and money.
Are you looking for some FREE Phonics Activities? Well, you’ve come to the right place!! Today in our Struggling Reader Series, I’m sharing TONS of links to free phonics activities. Don’t get stressed out looking at the entire list. We’ll talk really quick about how to narrow down what phonics skills your learner needs to work ... Read More about The ULTIMATE List of FREE Phonics Activities
Every sentence has to have a subject and a predicate to make a complete sentence. I have one daughter who loves math, but doesn't love anything to do with language arts or writing.
Should you introduce letters to your preschooler in their order in the alphabet? Surprisingly, no. There are actually better ways to introduce letters.
Planning to tutor over the summer? Here are tips for quick and easy planning! Hi there! It's Sarah! I've been tutoring kiddos for the last year and have developed a routine that makes my planning easy and my session flow smoothly. All of the kiddos I tutor are grades K-2 and in need of a boost in their reading skills...fluency, comprehension, and phonics. Warm-up I like to start with some reading that is simple or familiar. I'll either have the kiddo re-read a text from the previous session or read fluency sentences. I have my kiddos keep a composition notebook with past passages to go back and re-read. I use lots of guided reader books to find the just right text for my kiddos to read. These are also great books to leave for kiddos to practice between sessions. Fluency sentence strips from The Moffatt Girls are a GREAT help to boost fluency and confidence! They are also super easy to leave for practice between sessions. Fluency Reading Practice My kiddos have all had good sight word recognition and really need fluency work. I switch between leveled readers and text passages. I usually have kiddos read the text themselves first. After reading, we go back through the text and find words that were tricky and read them. Next, I have the kiddo read through the text with me or by themselves if they are confident. Using a leveled reader Using fluency passages and recording words read per minute (the kiddos love to see their growth!) Find these fluency passages HERE! Using text evidence passages. Grab these passages HERE! Comprehension After some fluency practice with the selected text, I move into comprehension work. In our district, kiddos need to do a written response comprehension question as part of their reading assessment. I have my kiddos practice a written response question with every text and in every session. Comprehension with level reader I use these question stems to develop questions based on the text. Grab the question stems HERE! Completed written response, kiddos write in their composition journal Comprehension with text evidence passages. Grab these passages HERE! Here I use a reading passage with several comprehension tasks for a 2nd grade kiddo. Find these reading passage + comprehension packets HERE! Phonics After the reading and comprehension tasks are complete, I work on some phonics task with my kiddos. One of my favorite tasks is doing a word family word splash. I select a word from our text. I like how this tasks shows kiddos that if they can spell a work like bat, they can also spell cat, mat, sat, etc. Writing short sentences with words from the Word Family Splash Word building and sounding out Extras I like to use phonics poems as an additional fluency tool. The kiddos glue them into their composition notebook so they can go back and re-read between sessions, continuing to build fluency with familiar texts. These phonics poems are from Susan Jones. I use our Literacy Bags in between reading tasks. Literacy Bags break up the rigorous reading and fluency practice we do for much of the session. You can find Literacy Bags HERE! I'm working with a few Kindergartners who need sight word practice. I use the K version of our Differentiated Reading Fluency passages. In K, the passages start as reading letters, then sight words fluently. It perfect support for my K kiddos! You can grab these HERE! Additionally, our Print a Standard packs have been a great support for targeting specific skills students need to work on. Each pack contains tasks for one standard and has several activities for that standard, so there are a lot of opportunities to help the student learn, practice, and master standards based skills. You can grab Print a Standard packs for ELA AND MATH HERE! Connecting with students and parents on a more personal level is the best part of tutoring. I love giving kiddos instant feedback and celebrating their successes! I also love that I can give them more choices to foster a love of reading. In the picture above, I'm showing several text selections. The kiddos I'm working with is able to choose the book he'll read with me for the session. I also love being able to help parents foster learning at home. I've found most all of my parents did not really know about their kiddo's reading level or reading abilities. This makes it difficult for parents to find the best "just right" books for reading at home. After I work with a kiddo, I leave the text piece we worked on for that session (a passage or a book) so the kiddo can re-read it with parents. I leave their composition notebooks with phonics poems for the kiddos to go back a re-read. I also leave the fluency sentence strips for practice between sessions.
Dive into the world of literacy centers and unleash their full potential with insights from the science of reading!
Incorporating decodable readers and the science of reading into your teaching gives your students the foundation to become confident readers.
Learn how to use decodable passages in guided reading in kindergarten and first grade. Then, use the FREE decodable passages to get started.
Effective spelling instruction emphasizes the structure of the English language. Effective spelling instruction can lead to reading success as well.
Struggling with how to address phonics gaps in your 4th or 5th graders? This blog post shares strategies to reteach and review phonics skills.
Learn strategies for how to teach phonics to preschoolers for early reading, letter identification, phonemic awareness, and decoding.
Ditch the phonics worksheets and try these hands-on phonics activities to incorporate the science of reading into your literacy instruction.
Montessori schools need to buy high-quality sandpaper letters, but you can purchase inexpensive sandpaper letters or make your own DIY sandpaper letters.
Discover and use the science of reading to teach phonics scope and sequence by grade level with my printable phonics sequence chart.
We are doing first grade phonics now. Get ready to learn and do all of the activities I think everyone will enjoy!
The bottomline in knowing how to teach kids with dyslexia to read is that there are methods and approaches that have been proven to work and those that haven't.
Make reading assessments more efficient with these FREE reading assessment tools for teachers of kinder, first, and second grade.
Looking for the best homeschool language arts curriculum for dyslexia & ADHD? In this post, homeschool moms share their favorite programs!
A blog post sharing information about why Contraction Surgery is a success in classrooms! Hands-on information is shared. #ContractionSurgery
Repeated practice matters for students with dyslexia, but how much repetition is really needed in your Orton-Gillingham lesson?
Focusing on spelling helps kids become better readers! Here are 50 hands-on spelling activities for both phonics and sight words, perfect for young kids.
Wondering how to teach blending? Or have a few students who are struggling? This post has tons of ideas to help!
Children Learning Reading review - here is an honest opinion from a mom on why this is a great tool to teach reading to kids.
