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Art and Heart (With Reader’s Theater)
We know that not all students have ideal home situations. On occasion the hell they live with shows itself though their behavior. I will never forget one little girl I had in my second grade class who hissed instead of responding when someone talked to her. She wouldn’t sit with the rest of the class,…
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Phonemic Awareness
Phonemic awareness is the ability to hear and manipulate individual phonemes (sounds). Student have this awareness of sounds in order to move on to phonics, which is sounds and letters combined to form words. It is a foundational skill needed to be able to read. It involves hearing and speaking only. A phoneme is the smallest meaningful…
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Phonics
NOTE: A child may be able to recite the alphabet, but not know the sounds. Phonics combines both skills. For many students the two skills are too much to tackle at once. Most reading difficulties are a result of a lack of phonemic awareness (sounds). See my page on Resources for Phonemic Awareness first: Resources…
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Fluency
A fluent reader reads smoothly and is enjoyable to listen to. The components of fluency are: Accuracy, Rate, Expression Fluency is important because it provides a bridge between word recognition and comprehension. The most powerful way for you to help your students is to read aloud to them, often and with great expression. You can put…
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