In this brief video, Jennifer Rogers works with her students on blending sounds into words.
This video shows a short instructional routine for teaching students to blend sounds.
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.
This IDA Ontario webinar focuses on how to implement a Structured Literacy Block in Grade One by breaking down the learning day into three different sections.
IDA Ontario webinar outlining 5 key changes that educators can make in their Kindergarten classroom.
Reader friendly book for educators outlining 7 changes to classroom instruction to improve literacy outcomes.
This IDA Ontario webinar focuses on incorporating intentional yet playful phonological and phonemic awareness instruction into the Ontario kindergarten program.
Written for teachers by a teacher with a strong understanding of reading science, this title supports both the foundational skills and language comprehension components of reading.
Third webinar in the IDA Ontario structured literacy in kindergarten series.
In this podcast interview with Kate Winn and Dr. Sonia Cabell, the focus is on the importance of early language and literacy development. Dr. Cabell highlights key considerations for instruction in several areas: oral language and conversation, alphabetics, writing and spelling, and building knowledge.
In this article from the International Dyslexia Association, Al Otaiba et al. emphasize the significance of evidence-based systematic and explicit instruction. They outline the typical process through which students grasp the alphabetic principle (the concept that words consist of distinct sounds). They also provide explanations of blending and segmenting instruction, accompanied by sample activities. The article also furnishes teachers with resources for explicit and systematic reading instruction as well as examples of explicit and systematic programs for teaching phonemic awareness and phonics.
 In this episode of the popular Reading Road Trip podcast, Dr. Holly Lane, the Director of the University of Florida Literacy Institute (UFLI), unpacks key considerations for teaching foundational reading and writing skills.Â