Printable Cards for Irregular “Heart” Words

Contrary to popular belief, students should not be taught to memorize irregular words by sight. In most irregular words, only one or two letters do not conform to their usual sound correspondence. This means that most irregular words are at least partially decodable. This is […]

A New Model for Teaching High-Frequency Words

Often, high-frequency words are called « sight words » with the expectation that these words are irregular and must be memorized. Integrating high-frequency words into phonics lessons allows students to make sense of spelling patterns for these words. To do this, high-frequency words need to be categorized […]

Elkonin Boxes

Elkonin boxes build phonemic awareness skills by segmenting words into individual sounds, or phonemes. To use Elkonin boxes, a child listens to a word and moves a token into a box for each sound or phoneme. In some cases different colored tokens may be used […]

Tableau des 36 phonèmes

Le système phonologique français est composé de 36 phonèmes 17 sont dits consonantiques ; ils mettent en jeu les 20 consonnes de l’alphabet 16 sont dits vocaliques ; ils mettent en jeu les 6 voyelles de l’alphabet 3 sont intermédiaires et appelés semi-consonantiques ou semi-vocaliques.