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Brand New Readers are some of the best books I've found for early readers. These books also offer support for parents helping a beginner reader. The front cover has a scripted introduction for an adult to share before reading the book. This engages the reader and improves comprehension. The back cover has suggestions for adults to make first-time reading easy and fun. An entire version of The

Many teachers and parents teach sight words. It is helpful for a beginning reader to have a few words to use as anchor words when reading early reader books, but I don't think children should be taught lists of unrelated sight words. I think children should learn to read words by individual sounds or phonograms. I've steered away from this controversial topic for some time as not to offend

A beginning reader will benefit from practice with a few two letter phonograms and blends. Most readers will learn phonograms and blends not specifically taught if they are given the opportunity to practice and overlearn sounding out words with some of the most common phonograms and blends.Phonograms and blends can be introduced, practiced, and taught in a number of ways. 1. Show in books.

Last Friday, Rebecca from The Joy of Literacy asked if I had a particular sequence to teach the phonogram flashcards I shared for parents to follow. I couldn't come up with an order. There are some phonograms that are more common and therefore easier to practice and learn first. Here are some of the most common phonograms you may want to teach first. ay - day, play, say, way ou - out, shout, our

Phonogram Definition: Phonograms are one letter or a group of letters that make a sound. Are you teaching phonics and phonograms? Phonograms can be one letter or a group of letters. You can point out phongrams in some of the books you read out loud. Single letter sounds are usually taught first. I like to mix in a few more than one letter phonograms as early as possible. Start with a few at a

Beginning readers need to learn letter and vowel sounds to read. The individual sounds of language and the letters that represent these sounds are called phonograms. Children usually learn single letter phonograms including soft c, soft g, long vowels, and short vowels first. There are many resources to teach these sounds.This post gives you a video and free phonogram flashcards to use to teach

Phonograms are letters or letter combinations that represent a sound. I will be focusing on teaching phonograms every Friday for awhile. My previous Friday focuses have been Phonological Awareness and Flashcards. Click on the highlighted links to view these posts starting with the most recent and working backwards. Learning the alphabet and the sounds each letter of the alphabet makes is a good