Understanding Consonant and Vowel Phonemes in English
Curious to learn more about the nature of English phonemes and their production? This handout from the Colorado Department of Education unpacks consonant and vowel sounds.
Letter Sound Articulation
Shira Naftel models and explains how phonemes are articulated in this Reading League video.
Isolating Final Phonemes with Susan Robison
Susan Robison helps her students practice isolating ending sounds, or phonemes, using a roller coaster motion to help them hear all the sounds in a word.
Phoneme Awareness: What We Now Know
Dr. Susan Brady summarizes what we know about effective phonemic awareness instruction in this webinar.
Phoneme Blending and Segmenting Diagnostic Assessment
This is a short assessment to assess students’ mastery of phoneme segmenting and blending.
Quick Look: Blending Phonemes
In this brief video, Jennifer Rogers works with her students on blending sounds into words.
Blending Phonemes with DeAngela Huggins
This video shows a short instructional routine for teaching students to blend sounds.
Blending and Segmenting Games
This Reading Rockets article provides materials and resources for several activities to teach blending and segmenting. The authors provide research that supports the use of each of these activities.
Structured Literacy in Kindergarten: 5 Key Changes That Made All My Students Readers
IDA Ontario webinar outlining 5 key changes that educators can make in their Kindergarten classroom.
7 Mighty Moves: Research-Backed, Classroom-Tested Strategies to Ensure K-to-3 Reading Success
Reader friendly book for educators outlining 7 changes to classroom instruction to improve literacy outcomes.
The Art & Science of Teaching Primary Reading
Written for teachers by a teacher with a strong understanding of reading science, this title supports both the foundational skills and language comprehension components of reading.
Implementing Structured Literacy In the Classroom: Part 1: Phonological Awareness
This IDA Ontario webinar focuses on incorporating intentional yet playful phonological and phonemic awareness instruction into the Ontario kindergarten program.
