Category Archives for "PHONICS, READING & SPELLING"

Phonics activities that feel more like play! Here we are in the midst of summer.  Before we know it, the kids will be heading back to school.  I encourage you to make the most of these next few weeks by engaging your children in fun phonics activities to support their reading development.  The key is to […]

Syllables, Sight Words and Multi-Sensory TeachingNow I Know!Kris Grace, Elementary Teacher When I first became familiar with the Raising Robust Readers Program, I was drawn to the multi-sensory approach of teaching phonograms.  Children learn songs and gestures providing the auditory and kinesthetic modalities.  The brightly colored illustrations featuring Wordy Worm® himself provide attractive visuals as […]

High Five to Multi-Sensory Learning. Wordy’s Phonogram High Five is a great reminder to use multi-sensory learning tools when  teaching children.  Instruction is far more effective when  all modalities of learning are used:auditory (hearing)visual (seeing)tactile (touching)kinesthetic (body movement)​Multi-Sensory Learning ModalitiesUse these 5 points throughout the day to bring awareness to phonograms and how to incorporate multi-sensory learning while teaching them.  […]

Could this be one of the reason our children struggle to read? I certainly think so. Below is an abstract from the “Journal of Learning Disabilities” that addresses teacher preparation and textbook content with regard to linguistic knowledge. There is also a link to the full article. While there are many excellent early elementary teachers doing […]

It IS the responsibility of teachers to teach reading and writing. But what a privilege for parents to be the first, foremost, and most influential teacher of these skills. We can go beyond our culture’s message of simply reading TO our children in preparation for these ‘professionals,’ and take our children on a fun-filled journey of learning early reading skills. (click title to read more)

Halloween  Phonograms ee and oo.In a room with a wood door,”Boo!” the ghost would go. Double o has three sounds: /oō/ /oŏ/ /ō/.  Talk about the sounds casually when you encounter them in your daily activities. (Can you get the cat fOOOOOOd please? Would you put this bOOOOOk in your bedrOOOOOm? Could you close the […]

We want to bust the myth that English is hard to learn and teach. English is logical, sensible, predictable and
easy to decode… (click title)

​War of the Worlds or Words?Arnie, from Patriot Press, who prints our Wordy Worm® books, used Wordy Worm to teach his son to read.  He also read to him every night; good stories and literature that perhaps took a week to get through.  So, he not only taught him the code, but he taught him […]

​ Lets eat grandma. Oh, dear, where is the comma headed?A recent U.K Daily Mail headline read, “The death of the comma? U.S. academic claims punctuation mark could be abolished from English language with ‘little loss of clarity’ (my emphasis).”Little loss of clarity???? OK, Professor McWhorter,ditch the commas. Are you perfectly clear on this writer’s […]