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If your students misspell words like impossible or impatient, this resource gives them an easy rule, repeated practice, and meaningful reading opportunities—so spelling becomes predictable instead of random.
A teacher emailed me recently with a question that hits right at the heart of structured literacy and basic decodables. She said (and I’m paraphrasing just a bit): “I want to embed rich vocabulary when my learner is still reading basic decodables. I know read-aloud is important, but a good read-aloud takes time. How do…
Build strong long vowel decoding skills with Connect the Four Words, a set of 5 vowel consonant e phonics games inspired by classic four-in-a-row gameplay. These games are perfect for boosting word reading accuracy, improving automaticity, and strengthening phonics fluency in an engaging, low-prep format. Students stay motivated as they try to connect four words across, down, or diagonally, and block their partner from doing the same!
Build strong digraph and consonant blends decoding skills with Connect the Four Words, a set of 5 digraph and consonant blends phonics games inspired by classic four-in-a-row gameplay. Students draw a word card, read it aloud, and place it on the game board by matching the word to the correct digraph or consonant blend. Every turn includes real decoding practice, repeated reading, and meaningful review of digraph and consonant blends.
Bring your morphology lessons to life with this engaging set of 16 Suffixes Reading Comprehension Mini-Readers!
Each short nonfiction reader explores a high-utility suffixes with real-world connections, helping students understand how words build meaning from the inside out.
These printable mini books are perfect for morphology lessons, small groups, literacy centers, and vocabulary intervention.
Give your students a quick and focused way to review three spelling rules: Doubling Rule, E-Drop Spelling Rule and Y to I spelling rules with these low-prep, print-and-go exit tickets and practice sheets. This brief assessment resource is perfect for Orton-Gillingham and structured literacy classrooms that want to keep a close eye on whether students really understand spelling changes when adding a suffix.
As Orton-Gillingham educators, teachers often wear many hats. In a single lesson, they may be teaching phonics, vocabulary, grammar, spelling, handwriting and reading comprehension. With so much to balance, it is easy for morphology instruction to feel like it is happening on its own, separate from everything else. When morphology instruction is taught in isolation,…
Connect the Four Words—a set of 5 CVC word family phonics games inspired by classic four-in-a-row gameplay. Students draw a word card, read it aloud, and place it on the game board by matching the word to the correct rime/word family. Every turn includes real decoding practice, repeated reading, and meaningful review of short vowels.
This brief assessment resource is perfect for Orton-Gillingham and structured literacy classrooms that want to keep a close eye on whether students really understand when to change y to i before adding a suffix, and when to keep the y.