In early instruction, many educators wonder if we should teach letter sounds or letter names first. Dr. Timothy Shanahan unpacks this issue.
Reading expert Linda Farrell works with Reese to master the name of every letter. Learning the name of every letter is a critical pre-reading skill.
Put Reading First is a summary of the findings from the Report of the National Reading Panel, summarized in a brief, easy-to-read comprehensive guide to evidence-based reading instruction. Intended for educators and administrators, this guide aims to improve reading outcomes for children in the early […]
Dr. Tim Shanahan clarifies what we know about rhyming in this blog post. Should rhyming be a key component of early reading instruction?
Use this lesson plan to teach students to segment words into their individual phonemes.
This is a lesson plan and student material sheet for a “Say It and Move It” lesson that explicitly teaches students to segment words.
This is a lesson plan for the explicit instruction of isolating the middle sound in words.
Use this lesson plan to explicitly teach students to identify the final sound in words.
This lesson plan outlines an instructional routine for explicitly teaching students to isolate the first sound in words.
This document provides a list of words for phonemic awareness instruction, with words carefully organized by number of sounds and stop/continuant sounds.
Use these diagnostic assessments to understand which phoneme isolation skills need instruction.
Curious to learn more about the nature of English phonemes and their production? This handout from the Colorado Department of Education unpacks consonant and vowel sounds.
