In today’s post I want to discuss a paper that I just added in the Phonogram University library. I added it to the top of the list because it is very good. The title is What Teachers Need to Know and Do to Teach Letter–Sounds, Phonemic Awareness, Word Reading, and Phonics. In this post, though, […]
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After weeks of hard work, I’m thrilled to announce that the phonogram courses at Phonogram University are finally complete! This has been a true labor of love, and I’m so excited to share these resources with parents who want to teach their children to read. For years, I dreamed of hosting these courses on my own website,
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I’ve gone on and on and on over the years about parents teaching their children to read. It’s a freaking no-brainer if you want your child to be really successful in school. I’ve not written about it much lately. So why am I writing about it again? A couple of reasons. First, Ella recently took the ACT,
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The Reading Assistant App, brought to you by Phonogram University, is a digital tool designed to support reading education. This application helps students, parents, and educators explore words and phonograms (specific letter patterns that represent sounds) with visual and audio guidance. This document explains how to use the application effectively. Getting Started Upon accessing the
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Most parents don’t know how to teach reading but believe that children being great readers helps them do their best in school. At Phonogram University, concerned parents are provided explicit tools to help them help their children become great readers and do their very best in school. Here are ten research-based reasons to teach reading
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As has become apparent to any blog reader, I am very passionate in my belief that parents can teach their children to read very effectively when they have the appropriate tools. It is also apparent from my web site and blog that I believe I have amazing tools to share with parents. But I may
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I recently submitted an online reading class to Outschool. Of course, the description was phonogram heavy. I did not enroll a single student, but I did get an email from a mother whose older children had learned the phonograms in school. Her youngest child, Mary, who had just completed 2nd grade, was not learning the
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I’m still learning from the podcast Sold a Story! You can too. Just click on the link and listen! About a year and a half ago I learned the term “orthographic mapping.” I was very familiar with orthographic mapping from my experience teaching children to read, but I didn’t know what it was called, just
In this post we are combining the last two lessons of the alphabet phonograms, for a total of six. I’m excited to be concluding the alphabet phonograms because that gets us to the multiple-letter phonograms where so much more learning will take place. The real power of the phonograms comes into play in the multiple-letter
Today we will combine two sets of four because they are all single sound phonograms. By now, you’re getting into the rhythm of how each phonogram works, the sounds they make, and the spelling rules that govern them. As always, I hope you enjoy learning about them as much as I enjoy sharing the details.
