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Are you looking for decodable reading passages that will also provide students with much needed reading comprehension practice for MAZE or CLOZE assessments?
This collection of over 60 decodable passages also serves as a CLOZE comprehension activity. Each passage focuses on one skill at a time.
Scribal o is a spelling convention with a fascinating historical story. The History of Scribal O Long ago, before the printing press was in common use, manuscripts were written by hand. The people who did this job were called scribes and many times they were monks. The writing style popular at the time was comprised…
Phonics Based Reader’s Theater Scripts for Syllable Types are PERFECT oral reading fluency practice while your students are practicing their phonics skills. They follow a progression to support your structured literacy lessons.
While the syllable types explain many spellings and pronunciations in English, we still come across some words that don’t quite work the way we expect them to. One of those is a group of words known as closed syllable exceptions. Let’s talk about teaching closed syllable exceptions! What are closed syllable exceptions? Closed syllable exceptions…
One of the very first suffixes that I teach students is the suffix -s. This suffix makes a word plural. Teaching -s and -es builds on students’ natural speech patterns and makes a perfect introduction to the concept of base words and suffixes. Teaching the concept of plural nouns also creates a bridge to teaching…
There are several reasons why recognizing patterns in words is difficult for our students with dyslexia. Dyslexia often causes difficulty linking the phonemic analysis with the orthographic patterns. This means that a student not only has difficulty correctly hearing, analyzing, and identifying the separate sounds in a word, but in putting the sequence of letters…
A particularly challenging, but important, set of spelling generalizations are the suffixing rules. They are important for students to be able to write using more natural-sounding language. For example, He did hop sounds far more awkward and stilted than He hopped. Learning the suffixing rules, like the drop e rule, expands possibilities for our students…
Do your students need decoding practice with r-controlled vowels? These R-Controlled Vowels Decodable Phonics Passages were written to help your students learn how to decode r-controlled syllables with confidence. Your beginning readers will love practicing decoding r-controlled syllables with these decodable passages! I totally get that your students need more varied practice with r-controlled vowels…
One category of spelling rules that is particularly important is suffixing. These rules are particularly important because suffixes are so frequently used in our written language. Writing even a simple paragraph without suffixes is an incredibly difficult task and results in the use of awkward language that doesn’t sound particularly natural. Learning a few basic…