Center for Early Literacy Learning
Preschoolers can recognize and identify letters especially familiar letters like those in their names. When you join your child in their play with alphabet toys, you encourage their interest in learning.
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Examining Student Reading Achievement in the Heggerty Phonemic Awareness Curriculum
Florida Center for Reading Research
A research snapshot that examines if reading scores differ for students in schools using the Heggerty program compared students in schools using their typical reading instruction.
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Reading and Writing SOS: Phonemic Awareness, Phonics, and Fluency
Reading Rockets
This webpage features a series of Q&A videos where experts answer questions from families and caregivers on supporting children’s literacy. Specifically, answers on how to actively support phonemic awareness, phonics, and fluency in children’s literacy.
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Preschool Parent Practice Literacy Guides: Talking and Listening, Wacky Word Games (Spanish)
Center for Early Literacy Learning
Read a guide that shows you how to help your preschooler talk, listen, and share ideas.
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Phonological and Phonemic Awareness: Assignments
Reading Rockets
Test your knowledge of listening for phonemes, get practice blending phonemes into words, and explore other phonemic awareness activities.
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Student Center Activities Aligned to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts and Literacy in History,Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects K-5
The Center on Instruction
This publication can inform the design, delivery, and use of evidence‐based interventions with students, including those with disabilities, who struggle with mastering todays rigorous reading, literacy, social studies, science and mathematics standards.
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Preschool Parent Practice Guide with Adaptations: Rhymes and Sounds Awareness: Sounds Good to Me
Center for Early Literacy Learning
This guide describes practices to encourage your preschooler to play with words and to notice different sounds, syllables, and words.
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Early Reading Case Study Unit
The Iris Center
Practice thinking through how to use evidence‐based strategies to support struggling early readers using case study scenarios and associated STAR Resource sheets
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Songs & Rhymes That Build Readers
Colorado Libraries for Early Literacy
Access a collection of 30‐60 second videos in nine languages for parents, caregivers, and library staff that models early childhood songs, rhymes, and fingerplays. Each video clip includes tips to increase caregiversŠ—È understanding of child development and pre‐literacy needs.
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Preschool Language and Literacy Infographic
U.S. Department of Education
This infographic outlines phonological awareness and interactive and dialogic reading practices.
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Enhancing the Core: Phonological Awareness
Oregon Reading First Center
Read presentation slides summarizing ways to enhance phonological awareness instruction in core reading contexts.
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Get Ready to Read! Screening Tool
Get Ready to Read!
This screening tool in English and Spanish from Get Ready to Read! is to be used with 4‐year old children. It includes 20 questions focused on a childŠ—Ès development of prereading skills in print knowledge, linguistic awareness, and emergent writing.
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Phonemic Awareness: Phoneme Segmentation
National Center on Intensive Interventions
This lesson on phonemic awareness may be used to supplement reading instruction to meet student needs.
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Blending and Segmenting Games
Reading Rockets
Read descriptions of specific activities that involve blending and segmenting sounds; includes activities for whole‐class, small‐group, and individual instructional contexts.
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Phonemic Awareness: Watch & Learn
Reading Rockets
Watch video clips that describe phonemic awareness strategies.
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Reading Around the Clock – Reading on the Go
INFOhio
This video by INFOhio introduces families to the many ways they can help children with reading skills while on the go, such as spotting all the places where you see letters and words in a city block, at a store, or on the road.
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Reading Skills Error Analysis Sheet
Doing What Works
Iowa teachers use this error analysis sheet to identify student errors and plan interventions to address a student's specific needs using intensive instructional strategies.
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Elkonin Boxes
Reading Rockets
Watch a 2 minute video on how to use Elkonin boxes to teach phonological awareness skills in small‐group and individual instructional contexts, download Elkonin box templates, and see recommended books for practice.
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Reading Instruction RTI (Part 3)
The Iris Center
Learn about the research‐based strategies to improve reading skills in this IRIS Module on RTI (Part 3): Reading Instruction.
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Letters vs. Phonemes
Doing What Works
Dr. Louisa Moats, reading expert and consultant, illustrates the difference between a phoneme and a letter and explains why it is important to teach phonological awareness skills in addition to letter knowledge.