When we used to teach reading within a leveled reading framework, early readers often used the pictures and sentence structure, along with some letters, in order to predict or solve tricky words. We now know...
Imagine a phonics or word study lesson: A teacher writes the word flap up on the whiteboard, and reads it to the class. Then, she jots down additional words with the -ap pattern, inviting students...
Do you dive in and continue forward with your whole group reading and phonics curriculum without any particular phonics assessments? If so, you’re not leading with assessment. Leading with assessment means utilizing assessment for instruction...
Classrooms, especially at the K-2 level, contain a variety of texts. As you begin or continue to use decodable texts in your classroom, it is helpful to think about the difference between decodable texts and...
You may be wondering how to choose the right decodable texts for your classroom, school, or district. Is any text that is called a decodable likely to be a good fit for my students? Is...