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How to Choose and Use Nonsense Words in Structured Literacy Lessons
Imagine walking into a kindergarten or 1st-grade classroom where the students are hard at work decoding words. As you walk from table to table, you see the students looking confident in their decoding skills and you hear words being read, like: “tup,” “lun,” “jop,” and “rit” Wait, WHAT?!? Those aren’t real words. You’re right, they’re…
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How to Teach Students to Sound out a Word
Stretching the sounds and blending them, aka sounding it out, is a go-to strategy for helping students decode. It’s the oldest reading strategy in the book, but perhaps still the most important. If you’re familiar with my reading strategy resources, you’ll know I use fun characters and interactive PowerPoints to teach decoding strategies and follow up…