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Paper that concisely explains why teaching students to guess at words when reading is a terrible strategy. Written by an award-winning reading teacher and interventionist in Australia.
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Explicit, Systematic Phonics Lessons, Scope & Sequence Materials
Website with lessons and materials for teaching phonics explicitly and systematically. Includes lesson plans, word lists, and decodable texts.
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Evaluation of Guided Reading vs. Explicit Interventions
Research study that found an explicit intervention in phonemic awareness, decoding, spelling, fluency, and comprehension demonstrated stronger impacts on student reading than did a Guided Reading intervention.
Instructional Materials
Sound-Spelling Chart
Instructional resource to support students' phonemic awareness, decoding, and spelling. Provides the most common spelling patterns for English sounds on a chart that students can use during instruction and practice. Also lists tips for how teachers can use the chart.