Phoneme segmentation is the process of pulling apart sounds. Practicing segmenting phonemes, identifying sounds, and pairing them with graphemes helps students grasp how sounds and letters work together. This is crucial for reading and spelling. Segmenting and...
There are 26 letters of the English alphabet, but there are 44 sounds of English. Kids learn letters, but they also need to learn phonemes and graphemes. And once they’ve gotten that, they need to segment, blend, and manipulate sounds. Let’s break all that down and...
If you are new to teaching early phonics, you may be wondering, What is SATPIN? SATPIN refers to the first six letters students learn in many phonics programs. Knowing why we teach these letters first can be helpful in teaching (and explaining to parents who wonder...
Learning suffixes often begins with -ed and -ing, and these suffixes get used a lot. You want students to understand how suffixes work, so start with the basics: the sounds of each suffix and what kinds of words they are added to, and how they change the meaning and...
Systematic synthetic phonics is an incredibly effective way to teach kids to read. Teaching phonics means teaching kids to link sounds and symbols (connecting phonemes to graphemes or sounds to letters). We call it synthetic phonics because students learn to link the...
Simply put, orthographic mapping is a way of bonding sounds in spoken language with letters and spelling as a way to get words into permanent memory. Dr. David Kilpatrick, a leading researcher in this area describes it as, “The mental process we use to store...
