Ideas and resources to help you teach with BLISS!
In this post, I answer the question “what is orthographic mapping” and share details about my own Word Mapping Bundle, a resource that promotes orthographic mapping. Finally, I share FREE CVC Word Mapping activities that provide guided instruction practice or make a perfect literacy center or independent activity for kindergarten, first, or second-grade students. We have long known that word recognition is… Read More
Every classroom has students who struggle to learn how to read. The Science of Reading tells us that to help these students our instruction must be explicit and systematic. In this post, I explain what it means for instruction to be explicit and systematic and then offer you Science of Reading-aligned reading resources to help your struggling readers Be sure… Read More
In this post, I answer the question, “what is structured literacy?” and explain how it is different from the whole language approach. I also share a FREE Science of Reading Toolkit that everything you need to get started with structured literacy in the kindergarten, first and second-grade classroom. As educators, teaching students how to read is one of our biggest… Read More
In this post, I’m sharing digital and printable phonics review activities that will give kindergarten, first and second-grade students the cumulative practice they need to master the skills we teach. One of the biggest takeaways from my study of the science of reading is that, in addition to explicit and systematic instruction, students need extensive review and repetition in order… Read More
This is a roundup post all about using the Heart Word Method to teach high-frequency sight words in kindergarten, first and second-grade classrooms. It is a place to easily find all of the information, tips, and resources I have shared about Heart Words. The science of reading has brought about a shift in the ways we teach our students their… Read More
In this post I recommend three instructional shifts you can make to better align your instruction to the science of reading and bring more structured literacy into your kindergarten, first, and second grade classrooms. Learn how teaching heart words, using sound walls and decodable texts can improve your reading instruction and help students learn to read. Teaching students to read… Read More
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