Phonics & Phonemic Awareness

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Determining Individual Word Study Needs

Wondering what to focus on for word work instruction?  Determing individual student needs is crucial.  Two efficient and quick methods for determining individual students’ strengths and areas of need are spelling inventories and select NWEA Skills Checklists.  Check out the links below for more information on both and be sure to let me know how I can support you!

NWEA Skills Checklists

Words Their Way Word Study in Action

 

 

Benefits of Systematic & Explicit Phonics Instruction

Systematic and explicit phonics instruction is proven to support emergent readers as they connect sounds to letters and letter combinations.   Once phonics skills are mastered, students are able to focus less on decoding and more on making meaning!

Wondering what effective phonics instruction should include?  Check out:

https://www.ascd.org/publications/books/103316/chapters/Phonics-and-Decoding.aspx