Follow-Up Friday: ALL ABOUT PHONICS!
This week was all about PHONICS! We released A BRAND NEW VIDEO (watch for MORE NEW videos coming this year, subscribe to our YOUTUBE for early access) and rereleased four awesome videos to facebook! Happy Friday!
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**NEW VIDEO**
STEP 6 OF AN EFFECTIVE PHONICS LESSON: DICTATION
Here we explain the sixth and final step to the Explicit Phonics Lesson-Dictation. We hope you enjoy our ideas for dicatation. Simply Teach!
WHAT IS PHONICS AND WHY DO WE TEACH IT
Hopefully this video will revive you for effectively teaching phonics in your classroom. We go through a few of the most common questions of phonics. This video will remind you of the importance of teaching explicit phonics instruction everyday - in every grade!
Snag our Digital Phonics Lessons HERE.
Other Phonics Resources click HERE.
HOW TO PLAN A WEEK OF PHONICS
In this video we walk you through how we plan a week of phonics instruction. We discuss how to work with your program to follow the spelling patterns so you align to the assessments while providing effective, research-based phonics instruction.
Here are some Phonics FREEBIES for you!
HOW TO TEACH SHORT VOWEL CVC
In our next video we go over how to effectively teach short vowel spellings in CVC words.
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 consonant-le We have an awesome resource for you to help you teach the sound-spelling patterns.
NONSENSE WORD FLUENCY WHAT AND WHY
Now, let’s talk about nonsense word fluency (NWF). NWF is an assessment we use to see how well students are applying their phonics blending or decoding skills. We will help you understand NWF so you can use it as a meaningful and valuable assessment in your classroom.
Kinder and 1st Dibels Progress monitoring resources HERE.
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