Phonological awareness is a vital piece of literacy development in young children. It occurs along a continuum on which skills develop in stages. This progression begins with skills like word and sentence awareness, then moves into more specific parts of …
Phonics
3 Simple Play-Based Phonics Activities
Distance learning forced us to get creative with the ways that we’ve always taught those foundational skills like letter identification and sounds. Even though I try to incorporate play-based activities into my typical instruction, I knew that it was extra …
A Letter-a-Day: Teaching the Alphabet Quickly and Easily
How do you teach the alphabet? I have used so many different strategies over the years. Depending on the district-adopted program I was using, there was letter-a-week, two letters per week, review weeks, letter-a-day AND letter-a-week….and nothing really ever felt …