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 for consonants and vowels or just for each phoneme in…
In this PaTTAN webinar, Michael Hunter outlines a flexible strategy for reading and spelling multisyllabic words. Students identify the vowels in words to determine the number of syllables and where to break the word.
In this video, Linda Farrell demonstrates a lesson focused on teaching a flexible strategy for decoding multisyllabic words.
Linda Farrell explains the process readers go through when they decode new multisyllabic reading. In the video, she highlights set for variability, where a reader flexes sounds to adjust close approximations.
Linda Farrell highlights an instructional approach to teaching multisyllable words with silent “e” and vowel teams in this brief video.
Dr. Stephanie Stollar explains set for variability in this brief video. Set for variability is the set of skills that allow students to correct close approximations while decoding.
In this activity, students practice sounding out words with digraphs, and then reading the word aloud.
This free printable resource is designed to help students build reading skills related to ending digraphs.
This free printable resource for teachers is designed to help students build reading skills related to beginning digraphs.
This is a handy guide that explains how to use Elkonin boxes in instruction, with the helpful addition of word lists for teaching.
This word lists can help you plan for teaching digraphs with short vowels. Use them in your reading and spelling lessons and activities.
In this activity, students practice recognizing, sounding out, blending and reading words with short vowels.
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