Phonological awareness is a critical building block to a child’s literacy that can be practiced via play and fun games! In this video, Brainspring’s Director of Instruction, Katie H. demo … read more

Letter Y can make multiple sounds, depending on where it is located in a word. This multisensory acitvity is for letter Y, when it is at the beginning of a word and thus making the sound of /y/. Using … read more

This week is National Young Readers Week! I myself am looking forward to celebrating National Middle Age Readers Week, but I digress. Though reading is important at any age, reading at a young age … read more

Happy Monday everyone! This week we have a short and sweet activity that is sure to please any student working towards mastering the vowel team -OE! Make it Multisensory Vowel team -OE is usually plac … read more

I love this activity! The kids get to move, think, and play. I used this activity when teaching -ng (-ing,-ang, -ong, -ung) and -nk (-ink, -ank, -onk, -unk) concepts. However, it can be adapted to mos … read more

Vowels are the trickiest sounds in our language.  They can be especially frustrating for struggling readers and challenging for teachers as well.  It’s not your imagination that the /o/ sound in “dog” … read more