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Rhyme is a critical phonological awareness skill in which children learn at a very young age. The ability to rhyme will help children form a strong reading and spelling foundation. Rhyme is the First Skill Domain in Phonology Download this freebie which overviews all phonological and phonemic awareness skills. This will be a great way to […]

  Learning about long vowels helps children understand different letter-sound relationships. Thus preparing strong reading and spelling foundations. Teaching spelling generalizations via long vowel spelling patterns allows children to learn and remember that long vowels can be represented in different ways. By the way, there are so many different ways, oh my! Once children have […]

Here’s an easy-peasy (to create) word work idea for your center activities. I created this super fun spelling activity to help students work on blending, adding and also deleting, and substituting phonemes to make new words, all while having loads of fun. These vital phonemic awareness skills are just some of the 34 skills that I […]

Phonemic awareness skills are the foundation for competent readers. Students who have mastered these skills in the first two years of formal schooling often progress easily with their reading skills, as they have developed one of the essential reading foundations; phonemic awareness. For a more in depth look at phonological and phonemic awareness click here. […]

It’s nice to have your word wall all set up and ready to go, because then it’s all done. You can check that off your list of 1,001 things you have to do. Right? Well don’t get me wrong, I have done this year in, year out. After a few years, I began to understand […]