Did you know vowels are the core sounds of the English language? Many languages are consonant-rich and have fewer vowels. English is vowel-rich because … there are so many vowels! The five short … read more

This is a fun activity for practicing the ending blend –nch. It is ideal for students who have learned both tch and ch, but are struggling to discriminate /nch/ at the end of words. Some student … read more

Kids love puppets and story time! Here is a fun phonemic awareness activity that you can use to introduce the /z/ sound. Students sit and listen to Ziggy – he has some interesting ways of saying … read more

A key question we as teachers should stop and ask ourselves is …”are my students focusing on learning to read? Or, have they become automatic in their reading, to the point where they can  … read more

Although we use contractions frequently in daily speech, they tend to be difficult for students to use in reading and writing. The word “Contraction” literally means “pull together&# … read more

Do your students struggle to remember the meanings of the suffixes -ness and -ment? Mine did until I came up with a simple memory trick for them. Both -ness and -ment carry the same meaning; they mean … read more