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Reading Road Trip: Mighty Moves for Reading Success with Lindsay Kemeny

By IDA Ontario, Lindsay Kemeny Last updated 2025/05/08
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Description

In this podcast episode, Lindsay Kemeny highlights the “7 Mighty Moves” she made to align her early literacy instruction with research. Moves include teaching phonemic awareness with intention, teaching phonics explicitly and systematically, teaching decoding strategies, using decodable texts for beginning readers, encouraging more decoding of high-frequency words, providing meaningful fluency practice, and embracing vocabulary and knowledge instruction to support comprehension.

Curriculum Connection

1. Curriculum Context
The 7 Mighty Moves are closely aligned with all specific expectations in B2: Foundations of Language.
Grade(s): K 1 2 3
Topic(s): Applying MorphologyApplying OrthographyApplying PhonicsFluencyPhonemic AwarenessVocabularyWord-Level Reading and Spelling

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