Follow up Friday: All About Alphabet Knowledge and Beyond
This week was all about ALPHABET KNOWLEDGE! We released A BRAND NEW VIDEO (watch for MORE NEW videos coming this year, subscribe to our YOUTUBE for early access - Each Saturday a new video will be dropped) and we also rereleased three awesome videos to facebook! Happy Friday!
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**NEW VIDEO**
How to Teach Letter or Alphabet Knowledge
ALPHABET KNOWLEDGE: What is it and why do we teach it?
Letter or Alphabet Knowledge is a foundational skill of literacy that plays an important role in reading and writing. We share information about its critical role and how we as teachers can be clear and intentional with our scope and sequence.
Here are some helpful resources to go along with the video below!
HOW TO TEACH CONSONANT SPELLINGS
Next we discussed how to effectively teach consonant spellings. Breaking the English language into the most common spelling patterns is an effective way to teach the connection of the sounds and the spellings to children while learning to read. This relationship between the sounds and the spellings of language is also called decoding. Decoding our language is critical to being an adept reader. Breaking the English language into the most common spelling patterns and teaching them explicitly in a clear scope and sequence is recommended. You can follow our pattern or break this up to follow your Core Reading Program's scope and sequence.
In our Sound-Spelling Posters and Reference Sheets, we include the spelling patterns: short vowels in cvc, consonants and blends, soft c and g, silent and double consonants, schwa, digraphs and trigraph, r-controlled vowels, long vowels: final silent e (vce), long vowels: vowel teams, other long vowels, closed syllables, open syllables, variant vowels, and consonant-le.
Here are some of our helpful resources:
HOW TO PLAN A PHONICS LESSON
Our next video is about planning a phonics lesson for K, 1, & 2.
In this video we go through the step-by-step process of how to plan a phonics lesson so you can write them with any decodable text. We walk you through the thinking of choosing the words to use when you write an effective phonics lesson using our free sample of a cvc text we have written.
Here are some mentioned resources:
🔗Free text sample of a CVC lesson
🔗Free lesson card for you to do your own planning
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