Tips for Building Phonemic Awareness in Older Students
You may think of phonemic and phonological awareness as something for the primary grades, for early readers, or for non-readers. If you teach older struggling…
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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…
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How to Teach Schwa Vowels Part 2: Tips for Teaching Other Schwa Vowels
In Part 1 of How To Teach Schwa Vowels, we talked about strategies for learning schwa a. Schwa a is a great place to introduce…
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How to Teach Schwa A – Part One Schwa Vowels
Schwa vowels can be puzzling to children and adults at first. Breaking down schwa sounds by groups can be helpful. Starting with schwa a sounds…
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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…
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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…
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The Many Reasons For Silent E
Have you ever had a student decide a word didn’t look right so they added an e to the end? When in doubt, they throw…
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Is It AU or AW? Spelling Strategies For Vowel Teams
The spelling generalizations for vowels really are cumulative. Although it may take a lot of practice for your students to internalize them, an understanding of…
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Tips for Teaching Consonant Digraphs
Many children have some knowledge of consonant digraphs when they start their Orton Gillingham lesson with an Orton-Gillingham tutor, although few really are familiar…
