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Dividing words into syllables can be a super effective strategy for teaching kids to decode multisyllabic words. Learn all about syllabication and syllable division rules, and get lots of resources, including a free anchor chart, to make your instruction effective! What Is Syllabication? Syllabication is breaking words apart into syllables. We sometimes refer to this…
Learn how to teach the 6 types of context clues with examples of each one. This is an essential strategy for understanding and learning new vocabulary! Get a fun and free mini-book that clearly shows the different types of context clues, signal words, and examples for your students to use! What Are Context Clues? Context…
Get excellent ideas and practical tips for multimodal approaches to literacy instruction. These strategies will be sure to engage students and make your OG (Orton-Gillingham) literacy lessons fun and meaningful! Why Make OG Lessons Fun? According to P. Montgomery’s A Principals Primer for Raising Reading Achievement (2013), the majority of students need repeated exposures to…
Get three different FREE printable reading log templates for kids, with different options for different ages and reading levels. These are great for tracking reading goals by the week, month, or over summer break! Why Reading Logs are Important 📚 Helps with goal setting. Students are challenged to complete the reading log, and they get…
Get 7 printable poems to teach and reinforce decoding skills while reading tons of high-frequency words. Through practice with these poems, kids can use research-based strategies to turn unknown high-frequency words into sight words that can be read automatically with ease! What are High-Frequency Words? High-frequency words (HFW) are words that readers see most often…
Grab this The Cat in the Hat graphic organizer, perfect for celebrating Dr. Suess and Read Across America Day! Use this FREE worksheet to incorporate some Dr. Suess-themed fun into your classroom. 💗 Why We Love It This no-prep Graphic Organizer worksheet is awesome for so many reasons! Students will practice identifying plot elements in…
Use this free high-frequency words flashcards game to engage students in a fun activity while they learn to use high-frequency words within context. This printable pdf game includes 18 words from the Dolch Primer Sight Word List, both decodable and irregular words. Just print, cut, and play! 📝 High-Frequency Word Practice Research shows that repeated…
Learn all about heart words! We’re sharing everything from what heart words are to the most effective way to teach kids to read and spell irregular words, and sharing the best resources. Get tons of FREE heart word slides, worksheets, videos, and more to help make teaching irregular words easy, fun, and effective! ♥ What…
Get a FREE resource with 59 common homophones in one organized list, plus a FREE no prep fill-in-the-blank worksheet with homophone sentences! This helps kids to expand their knowledge of homophones and build their vocabulary as they learn! Homophone List Homophones are words that sound exactly the same, but they have different spellings and different…
Get 6 lists with 376+ nonsense words, aka pseudowords! The words are organized by syllable type, and they are perfect for practicing decoding, sorting, or even use as a quick assessment! Read all about using nonsense words with your students and grab these 6 free pseudoword lists. What Are Nonsense Words/Pseudowords? Pseudo is a Latin…