Technology in the Classroom: beyond games A guest blog post by Heather Betsworth Teachers are a lot like spiders: 1) We’re always on the web; 2) We have eyes everywhere; and 3) We can create glorious things out of something we pulled from our rears just moments before. That’s not to say we never plan […]
Archives for January 2017
Phoneme Manipulation: Phonemic Awareness Skills
Reading Difficulties? Phonological, and phonemic awareness skills are the foundations for competent readers. If students are memorizing text, reading without fluency, reading words incorrectly, it might be a sign that they are missing some foundations. These reading gaps can be addressed through a thorough approach to developing phonological and phonemic awareness skills. To […]
Phonics Apps for K-2 Students
What is Phonics? Phonics development is next in the continuum after phonological and phonemic awareness. While phonemic awareness in it’s definition is the ability to hear and manipulate sound units, phonics is the ability to hear, and also read sounds represented as graphemes (letters). Both skills sets should be taught along side each other for […]