After several decades of teaching first grade, I became a Reading Recovery teacher. Best. Training. Ever!!!! And, oh so, humbling. It...

While going through my files, organizing for the end of the year, ... ... I came upon the following poem.  At the end of my trainin...

In the course of your word work, teachers, it’s now time to introduce flexibility for spelling patterns that change sounds.  To this end,...

Who-oo-oo knows what time it is?  Yes, it's time , teachers, to move onto the next step in how words work. Th...

It’s about time, teachers, …  to begin working on  rimes .   At the white board, construct 3 known words that have the same ...

It's about time, teachers, for onset changes with harder analogies .  Begin by displaying the letters for a KNOWN word, plus another l...