Trigraph: 3 letters that stand for one phoneme (e.g. tch, dge) -tch = /ch/ after short vowel (e.g. catch) -dge = /j/ after short vowel (e.g. ridge) After I finished creating Literacy Lessons Level 2, which covered consonant blends, I noticed that several of my students needed to work on reading and spelling words with… Continue reading Trigraphs: -tch and -dge
Once your students have mastered the concepts taught in Literacy Lessons: Level 1, they will be ready to tackle reading and spelling words with consonant blends and trigraphs. Consonant Blends are two or three consecutive consonants within a syllable that each represent a distinct sound. Blends appear frequently in the English language and are crucial… Continue reading Literacy Lessons: Level 2 – Consonant Blends & Trigraphs
Over the past few years as a classroom teacher, reading specialist, and friend of several parents with young children, I've been asked the question over and over again - how do you teach a child to read? As a Kindergarten teacher, I taught my students to read by building their phonemic awareness skills: blending, segmenting,… Continue reading Literacy Lessons
This year I have been working with students in Kindergarten-3rd Grade and I was having a hard time getting organized and planned for my groups of students from four different grade levels because of the many different assessments that we use to determine who qualifies for "intensive intervention". In my county, we give PALS which… Continue reading Phonemic/Phonological Awareness: Rhyming
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