by Karina Richland | Sep 12, 2023 | Articles & Resources, Language & Reading, Orton-Gillingham, Phonemic Awareness, Phonological Awareness, Reading, Reading Comprehension, Reading Fluency, Science of Reading, Structured Literacy
What is the Science of Reading? The Science of Reading is a term that refers to research that has been conducted over the past twenty years by leading reading experts, cognitive scientists, and reading researchers on how we learn to read. There is an actual...
by Karina Richland | Sep 20, 2022 | Multisensory, Multisensory Teaching, Reading, Reading Skills
After your student has mastered the alphabetic principle, the next step in learning to read is beginning blending. This means pushing all of the sounds together in a word to create the whole word without pausing. For example, reading the word ‘bat’ as /bbaatt/ instead...
by Karina Richland | Feb 21, 2019 | Phonological Awareness
Phonological awareness is the ability for children to pick up on sounds, syllables and rhymes in words that they hear. Without phonological awareness, a child will struggle learning to read and spell. On today’s post I am going to share with you some phonological...
by Karina Richland | Jun 26, 2018 | Reading, Speech
In Orton-Gillingham lessons, students are taught to isolate each individual phoneme (sound) in a word. For example, the word bat has three sounds – /b/, /a/, /t/. The word ship also has three sounds – /sh/, /i/, /p/. This is part of what is called...
