Topic: Phonics

Readers must have dedicated time for phonics instruction that teaches the skills they’ll need to learn to decode, encode and make sense of letters and sounds

Try these 5 poetry activities to experience the power of shared poetry reading in your classroom.

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Fountas and Pinnell dive into the research on effective phonics instruction and align the research to the Phonics, Spelling, and Word Study Lessons.

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Literacy leaders Irene Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell sat down with the Heinemann team to discuss the role of phonics in a cohesive literacy system.

Poems provide children with an authentic opportunity to apply their knowledge of letter/sound relationships and word patterns and parts.

Shared reading of poetry helps children become aware of the phonological system of language, which is basic to providing a foundation for matching sounds with letters, letter clusters, and word parts.

You want your students to become flexible in their understanding of words. They need to realize that words can have shades of meaning – they need to understand slightly different meanings in different texts.

Try using tongue twister poems in your classroom!

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Try this tip out out with a first grade poem.

Children love poetry with rhythm and rhyme; the language of poetry sings inside their heads. As they grow in experience, they also learn to appreciate poetry without rhyme, as well as the sensory images and unique perspectives it evokes.

Immersing children in simple poetry at an early age instills a lifelong habit of enjoying language and seeking out poetry in order to expand our vision.