Ideas and resources to help you teach with BLISS!
A sound wall is a way to organize and display the different sounds (or phonemes) we hear in speech. In this post I’ll share tips for how to set up a sound wall in the kindergarten, first or second grade classroom and share details about my virtual sound wall resource. Lately I’ve been sharing a lot of information about Sound Walls. … Read More
The Science of Reading tells us that Phoneme-Grapheme Mapping is an effective way to help students build their word recognition and become stronger readers. In this post, you’ll get ideas to practice mapping words with your students, details about my Phoneme Grapheme Word Mapping Bundle and a FREE CVC Word Mapping activity perfect for the Kindergarten, first or second grade classroom!… Read More
In this post, I explain how to teach high-frequency sight words using the Heart Word method and share my Heart Words resource and activities to help kindergarten, first and second grade students learn sight words. For many years we taught students their sight words through rote memorization. We thought if a student saw a word enough times, it would eventually stick… Read More
The science of reading tells us that sight words are not stored in our visual memory and therefore we need to integrate sight words into our phonics instruction. In this post, I share information about Heart Words, an effective, phonics-based approach to teaching sight words, as well as a Heart Word Freebie to get you started! Did you know that… Read More
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