Letter Sound Articulation
Shira Naftel models and explains how phonemes are articulated in this Reading League video.
Isolating Final Phonemes with Susan Robison
Susan Robison helps her students practice isolating ending sounds, or phonemes, using a roller coaster motion to help them hear all the sounds in a word.
Phoneme Awareness: What We Now Know
Dr. Susan Brady summarizes what we know about effective phonemic awareness instruction in this webinar.
Phoneme Blending and Segmenting Diagnostic Assessment
This is a short assessment to assess students’ mastery of phoneme segmenting and blending.
Quick Look: Blending Phonemes
In this brief video, Jennifer Rogers works with her students on blending sounds into words.
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.
