Action Step of the Week: Sound-by-Sound Blending
Perhaps this is the most powerful action step to accelerate reading growth - teachers, teaching assistants, paraprofessionals, and even bus drivers. Let's load up and get kids reading.
Action Step of the Week
Every time you have students decoding an unknown word, practice the sound-by-sound blending routine:
Cue students to say the sound by pointing to each letter or group of letters that represent a sound (i.e. 1 finger for s and /s/, 2 fingers for ee for the /ē/).
After each sound, sweep the sounds you have touched slowly, dipping slig…
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