Links & Websites
Listserv for teachers, speech pathologists, interventionists, researchers, and other educators interested in research-based methods for teaching reading, spelling, and writing.
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Booklets
Guidelines for Examining Phonics & Word Recognition
Booklet with guidelines and checklists describing research-based phonological awareness, phonics, decoding, spelling, word study, and fluency instruction. Includes tool for examining components of a reading program.
Instructional Materials
Phonological Awareness: Guidelines for Instruction
Guidelines for teaching phonological awareness, including using effective instructional features, assessing individual students, and using a range of activities and scaffolding.
Links & Websites
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.
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.
Instructional Materials
Phonics & Spelling (First Grade)
Provides information, lesson ideas, and instructional strategies for decoding, word study, and spelling. Includes the six syllable types, small-group instruction, sight-word wall activities, word sorts, and dictation lessons. Includes Spanish-language examples and materials.
Links & Websites
Timothy Rasinski's Literacy Blog
Timothy Rasinski, professor of reading education at Kent State University, publishes a monthly blog with research-based lessons focused on words and fluency. Each monthly entry focuses on a current event or holiday.
Links & Websites
Tim Shanahan’s Literacy Blog
Literacy expert’s "Shanahan on Literacy" blog with research-based information and resources related to lots of reading and writing topics, including using leveled texts, teaching comprehension strategies explicitly, English learners, and many others.