
TRT Podcast#67: Do’s and don’ts for teaching phonics
Should we teach letter sounds before letter names? Do kids need to learn syllable division rules? We’ll examine it all in this episode, the first in our new series about teaching phonics.
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Full episode transcript
Related resources
- What order should you teach phonics skills? Blog post
- Scope and sequence for teaching phonics skills
- Phonics Faux Pas, by Nell K. Duke & Heidi Anne E. Mesmer
- Differentiation: The Key to Serving ALL Students Climbing the Ladder of Reading, by Nancy Young
- Multi-Syllable Words Made Easy (with Readsters’ Linda Farrell) on YouTube
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Mary Riley
I love your site and I really enjoyed reading this. Is there a printable version and where can I get the reading/phonics scope and sequence? Thank you.