Shannon and Mary chat about the recent debate in the science of reading community about whether phonemic awareness drills without letters are a worthwhile exercise for readers. They describe activities they've done with struggling readers to build phonemic awareness, and they talk about the use of those activities as a part of Tier 1 reading instruction.
Read MoreShannon describes some new ways she's helping her older elementary students learn how to encode and spell. Mary shares the SOS strategy for Spelling and explains the research about encoding and the brain processing that happens as students make spelling choices.
Read MoreShannon chats about the different strands of Scarborough's Reading Rope with Tess Kraft. They talk about all the many different skills that weave together into skilled reading and share ideas about transferring the science of reading into effective literacy instruction.
Read MoreShannon and Mary chat with literacy expert Wiley Blevins about the scope and sequence of phonics instruction. He describes his experience and the research behind the ordering of certain skills and shares practice tips & knowledge about teaching phonics in the classroom. He also details conceptual leaps that occur in readers as they advance their literacy development.
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