Blending Phonemes with DeAngela Huggins
This video shows a short instructional routine for teaching students to blend sounds.
Blending and Segmenting Games
This Reading Rockets article provides materials and resources for several activities to teach blending and segmenting. The authors provide research that supports the use of each of these activities.
Which Words Are Worth Teaching?
IDA Perspectives article about vocabulary instruction from early childhood to senior grades.
Phinder
free website designed to help educators generate lists of words
How and When To Use Decodable Readers for Maximum Effectiveness
Discover how to effectively incorporate decodable text into phonics instruction in this recorded webinar by PATTAN.
Structured Literacy in Kindergarten: 5 Key Changes That Made All My Students Readers
IDA Ontario webinar outlining 5 key changes that educators can make in their Kindergarten classroom.
How Spelling Supports Reading
Comprehensive article outlining the key principles for making sense of the English spelling system.
Becoming a Literacy Leader Workshop Series
Webinar series following three Ontario teachers as they implement universal screening.
Bringing Words to Life: Robust Vocabulary Instruction
This educator-friendly book, written by reading researchers, outlines the rationale for vocabulary instruction, and how to implement it in classrooms from K-12
Implementing Structured Literacy In the Classroom: Part 1: Phonological Awareness
This IDA Ontario webinar focuses on incorporating intentional yet playful phonological and phonemic awareness instruction into the Ontario kindergarten program.
Implementing Structured Literacy In the Classroom-Part 3: Putting it Together
Third webinar in the IDA Ontario structured literacy in kindergarten series.
Word Connections: A Multisyllabic Word Reading Program
Free downloadable supplemental reading intervention program for students in grades three to five who continue to need support with word reading. This program includes 40 40-minute lessons designed to be delivered in small groups, 3 – 4 times per week.
