With more districts placing an increased emphasis on research-based reading instruction, phonemic awareness (PA) has taken on a new emphasis. In this post I’ll talk about PA and why it’s important to instruction. In our book, Artfully Teaching the Science…
Read MoreNWEA (Northwest Educational Association) released a report showing that reading achievement is not returning to pre-COVID levels and the shortcomings are alarming (Lewis & Kuhfeld, July, 2023). If you don’t know, schools and districts across the country subscribe to NWEA’s…
Read MoreWhile phonological awareness is a continuum of skills that occur at the word, syllable, onset & rime, and phoneme level. It is phonemic awareness (PA) that has been found to play a causal role in early reading development (Melby-Lervag et…
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Alphabet knowledge is exhibited when the individual can automatically recognize the name and common sound for all 26 letters of the alphabet, in upper and lower case. A corollary skill is the ability to write each letter, again, in upper…
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