Phonics and Word Study

There’s so much more to phonics than simply letters and sounds. Help your students to engage in active word play, learn about the alphabetic principle, master morphology, and develop strong phonemic awareness. Check out these tips and resources all about phonics and word study!

How To Help Younger Students Build Phonemic Awareness Skills

How To Help Younger Students Build Phonemic Awareness Skills

Phonemic awareness might be one of the most important, most talked about, and most misunderstood aspects of literacy. Some of that confusion stems from the similarities and differences between phonological and phonemic Awareness. They are very much related, but not interchangeable. If Phonological Awareness is an umbrella that covers skills, those skills include hearing words…

Top Tips for Helping Children Distinguish Between Short and Long Vowel Sounds

Top Tips for Helping Children Distinguish Between Short and Long Vowel Sounds

One question that comes up in discussion among OG colleagues more than just about anything else is about students who are having difficulty distinguishing vowel sounds. Sometimes they struggle with two similar short vowel sounds. Sometimes they have difficulty distinguishing between short and long vowel sounds. We are always looking to add to our bag…

Why English Isn’t Crazy and The Resources To Support It
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Why English Isn’t Crazy and The Resources To Support It

As teachers of structured literacy, we soon discover that English is more logical than it appears at first, but that isn’t always the popular opinion out there. This article details several resources to prove WHY English isn’t crazy. Have you ever heard… These are the types of comments I hear from my students during Orton-Gillingham…