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Spelling: Break spelling words into syllables in a spelling notebook, underline or highlight any multi-letter phonograms

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Spelling: Break spelling words into syllables in a spelling notebook, underline or highlight any multi-letter phonograms

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ditch

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Phonemic awareness is being able to hear individual sounds (phonemes) in a word such as "ditch" /d/,/i/,/tch/ and blending those sounds to say the word "ditch."

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Phonemic awareness is being able to hear individual sounds (phonemes) in a word such as "ditch" /d/,/i/,/tch/ and blending those sounds to say the word "ditch."

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Phonogram Review: students see and say the sounds produced by different single and multi-letter phonograms

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Phonogram Review: students see and say the sounds produced by different single and multi-letter phonograms

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Spelling words: Students syllabicate and mark spelling words with sounds and multi-letter phonograms, identifying spelling rules for using the phonograms within words

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Spelling words: Students syllabicate and mark spelling words with sounds and multi-letter phonograms, identifying spelling rules for using the phonograms within words

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Using manipulatives such as magnetic letters or letter tiles can help students who are kinesthetic learners

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Rhyme Time: "I'm thinking of an animal that rhymes with 'hat.' What's the animal?" Answer: cat. "What else rhymes with hat?" (mat, sat, bat...)

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Rhyme Time: "I'm thinking of an animal that rhymes with 'hat.' What's the animal?" Answer: cat. "What else rhymes with hat?" (mat, sat, bat...)

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Classroom and at home activities to help children become readers

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Classroom and at home activities to help children become readers

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Explore reading basics as well as the key role of background knowledge and motivation in becoming a lifelong reader and learner. Watch our PBS Launching Young Readers series and try our self-paced Reading 101 course to deepen your understanding.

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Phonics is being able to see a written word, pronounce each phoneme, and blend to say the word.

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Phonics is being able to see a written word, pronounce each phoneme, and blend to say the word.

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Children move beyond hearing sounds to recognizing written words.

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Word Analysis: Identify and mark any rules for using certain phonograms within a word in the spelling notebook. 

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Word Analysis: Identify and mark any rules for using certain phonograms within a word in the spelling notebook. 

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The /tch/ phonogram is followed by a single vowel saying its soft sound. (ditch, fetch, catch)

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Magnet Words: Have your child practice using magnetic letters to build words on your fridge, cabinet, or cookie sheet

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Magnet Words: Have your child practice using magnetic letters to build words on your fridge, cabinet, or cookie sheet

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From Sounds to Spelling is a Science of Reading based phonics program for K-2 that provides explicit instruction in phonics and phonological awareness.

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Recognizing and understanding more words widens a child's vocabulary. The more they are read to and the more they read themselves, the more fluent they will become. Exposure to all types of texts (narrative, informative) increases reading comprehension across disciplines. The more you read to your children, the better off they will be. They will improve and increase their vocabulary bank, fluency in reading, and reading comprehension.

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Select key words and unfamiliar words students will see in an assigned text. Create a word map where they write the word, its part of speech, definition, sentence with the word, and a picture and/or synonyms of the word.

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When students come across a vocabulary word or an unfamiliar word, help them find the key words that give clues to the word's meaning within the text.

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The best way to improve any skill is through practice and modeling. Read to your children. Let them see you reading. Share the value of reading. Take them to the library.

As you read to your children, ask them to recall or retell the story in their own words.

Have them draw pictures of events in the story.

Ask them what they think about characters' actions.

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Five components of reading, in a nutshell