Reading Miscues
Fun Fact: Most good readers actually skip over about 30% of the words their eyes see on a page - yet they still come away with understanding what the text says. Decades of eye-tracking and reading ability studies tell Read more...
Determining Reading Rate
Reading fluency - the ability to read quickly and effortlessly for meaning - is an essential step in the reading process. Through regular, daily practice, children move from sounding out letters to being able to automatically read whole words Read more...
What Is Phonics
Phonics teaches children the link between letters and the sounds they make. It comes after phonological processing. Phonics makes up the 2nd stage of a structured literacy program. Phonics instruction provides children with skills for blending individual sounds into Read more...
Unschooling Phonics
Phonics, the 2nd stage of the reading process (after phonological processing), teaches children the link between letters and the sounds they make. Phonics instruction provides children with skills for blending individual sounds into words.It takes a lot of mental energy Read more...
What Order Do I Teach Phonics?
Phonics is the 2nd step in the reading process. After children have developed Phonological Awareness, they are ready to connect that oral language skill to the written symbols - our alphabet - that make up words. Look at any Read more...
What Are Phonemes
Phonemes Phonemes are the smallest unit of sound that make up our language. While we have 26 letters of the American alphabet, we actually have 44 sounds. How is that possible, you ask? Some Phonemes are made up Read more...
What is Phonological Processing
Phonological Processing Phonological Awareness includes a broad set of skills that identify and manipulate sounds in oral language. Because no print or text is involved, you can think of phonological awareness as a pre-reading skill. To teach Phonological Read more...
IEP Process
Accessing IEPs as a Homeschooler If a homeschool parent suspects their child may have a learning disability, they can request a free evaluation through their local public school. Governed by the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), all Read more...