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Welcome to Literacy Voices, where our experts share instructional strategies with teachers.

You'll find practical classroom tips from real educators, personal stories, and innovative approaches to improving your teaching practice, and tools you can use immediately.

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Welcome to Literacy Voices, where our experts share instructional strategies with teachers. You'll find practical classroom tips from real educators, personal stories and innovative approaches to improving your teaching practice, and tools you can use immediately.

  1. From Support to Independence: What Structured Literacy Offers Every Reader

    From Support to Independence: What Structured Literacy Offers Every Reader

    Teachers! Let’s be honest. Teachers are professional structure-makers. Teachers can build a daily routine tighter than a NASA launch sequence. Teachers know e...
  2. Structured Literacy in Action: When Real Text Meets Real Skills

    Structured Literacy in Action: When Real Text Meets Real Skills

    What does your celebratory dance look like when a student who’s been working so hard to decode finally moves through a sentence with ease? What does your hype...
  3. Looking Inside Words: Word Parts and the Deeper Work of Structured Literacy

    Looking Inside Words: Word Parts and the Deeper Work of Structured Literacy

    There is something powerful about knowing how a word is built, like really built. Not just what it means, but what puts it together. Like recognizing that un- u...
  4. Structured Literacy Begins with Sound: Exploring Phonology and Phonics

    Structured Literacy Begins with Sound: Exploring Phonology and Phonics

    It’s funny how easy it is to overlook the impact of something as small as a single sound. But then you read “A told B, and B told C, ‘I’ll meet you at t...
  5. What Is Structured Literacy and Why Does It Matter?

    What Is Structured Literacy and Why Does It Matter?

    We know as teachers that there is no one-size-fits-all approach when it comes to teaching children how to read. Teaching reading and learning to read is extreme...
  6. Phonics and Language Transfer:  Supporting Multilingual Learners from Sound to Meaning

    Phonics and Language Transfer: Supporting Multilingual Learners from Sound to Meaning

    When checking one of your multilingual learner’s writing, you noticed that they wrote ‘chir’ for ‘cheer’ and ‘fone’ for ‘phone’. I know what y...
  7. From Sounds to Meaning: When Phonics Meets Morphology

    From Sounds to Meaning: When Phonics Meets Morphology

    In the previous blogs we spent some time discussing working with our early learners on blending, segmenting, and isolating sounds. At this point they’re skill...
  8. The Magic of Silent e: Why Long Vowels Deserve Center Stage

    The Magic of Silent e: Why Long Vowels Deserve Center Stage

    Have you ever watched a student sound out the word “cake” like /k/ /a/ /k/ /e/? Or call “bike” /b/ /i/ /k/ /e/ with four separate sounds? We get it. Sil...
  9. Teaching Blends, Segmenting and Digraphs with Purpose

    Teaching Blends, Segmenting and Digraphs with Purpose

    Tell me if you’ve ever experienced this scenario. Teacher: “What is the first sound you hear in the word ‘ball’?”
    Johnny: “/b/!!!” he shouts...

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