Letter Sound Pronunciation & The Importance of Clipping Sounds
Helping Emergent Readers Pronounce Letter Sounds Correctly What do you mean by there’s a right way and a wrong way to pronounce letters?
Emergent readers
How to Use Fluency Grids to Support Emergent Readers
Developing Automatic Recognition of Letters and Sounds What are fluency grids? Fluency grids are a simple tool that provides targeted instruction for emergent readers. After careful analysis of a letter-sound assessment, the teacher can create a fluency grid with 2-6 letters requiring additional practice. When instructing emergent readers in letter/sound recognition (i.e. the alphabetic principle), the focus…
Supporting Emergent Readers Through Successive Blending
Helping Students Make the Sound-to-Print Connection What is successive blending? Successive Blending is an instructional technique that provides a scaffold for students who are unable to sequence more than two sounds. For example, a student who would benefit from this technique might read the word “tag” as “tap”, “ag”, or “got”, among other possibilities. This…