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Trostle Talk - 36 & 37

Letter names or Letter Sounds: What should I teach first?

Trostle Talk - 36 &37Letter names or Letter Sounds: What should I teach first?

Professional Learning Tidbits for Teachers in About Two Minutes Professional Learning Tidbits for Teachers in About Two Minutes

https://youtu.be/zEtpHPcYJyM

Resources

Open source research articles (google folder)

Shanahan on Literacy: Letter names or letter sounds first?

slides from Lucy Hart Paulson PaTTAN Literacy Symposium presentation

The Power of Handwriting

Writing by Hand Helps Children Learn Letters Better


In response to this research, I designed a workbook for children to support teaching letter names, sounds, and formations in a cohesive way. Write It, Read It: Handwriting and Phonics for Early Readers is now available on Amazon. Check my website - www.teachreadingright.com - for updates on the accompanying digital course!


Letter Naming Resource

FCRR Student Center Activities - scroll down to Phonics - letter recognition


Phoneme Resource

Sound Walls 101 includes videos detailing articulation of each of the 44 phonemes of English


Phoneme Articulation Resource

Check out the Tools 4 Reading resources at 95 Percent Group


Letter Formation Resource

Iowa Literacy Lifter


Embedded Picture Mnemonics

OnLit's embedded mnemonics include an instructional routine for teachers


Want to learn more?

Cox Campus provides an absolutely FREE 3 hour course on Emergent Literacy.

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Letter Name Launchpad

This comprehensive toolkit gives you everything you need to identify students at risk for reading difficulties based on their letter name knowledge—and target instruction effectively from day one.


Includes an editable Google Sheet to collect student data related to letter name knowledge with built-in formula support to color-code students by risk level with a carefully crafted AI prompt to support the identification of instructional priorities and strategic grouping.


Click to purchase on TPT.

Episode 37: Notebook LM Synthesizes the Research: letter names or letter sounds Episode 37: Notebook LM Synthesizes the Research: letter names or letter sounds

I used the free version of Notebook LM to create resources that converged 16 sources! Two of my favorite resources were the infographic map and a podcast. There were a few parts of the podcast that I thought would benefit from explanation, so let's listen to the podcast together.

https://youtu.be/Msp7iydVEZE
Notebook LM mindmap - alphabet knowledge with subcategories importance and predictiveness, components of alphabet knowledge, learning letter names & sounds, instruction, assessment & benchmarks, relationship with other skills, related concepts and models
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Open source research articles (google folder)

Shanahan on Literacy: Letter names or letter sounds first?

slides from Lucy Hart Paulson PaTTAN Literacy Symposium presentation

Past Episodes

Episode 1: What is Reading Comprehension?

Episode 2: Subtypes of Readers

Episode 3: How do I find the reading level of my students?

Episode 4: The Reading Rope - Word Recognition

Episode 5: The Reading Rope - Phonological Awareness

Episode 6: The Reading Rope - Decoding

Episode 7: The Reading Rope - Sight Recognition

Episode 8: The Reading Rope - Background Knowledge

Episode 9: The Reading Rope - Vocabulary

Episode 10: The Reading Rope - Language Structures

Episode 11: The Reading Rope - Verbal Reasoning

Episode 12: The Reading Rope - Literacy Knowledge

Episode 13: Instructional Routines - Elkonin Boxes Basics

Episode 14: Instructional Routines - Elkonin Boxes Phoneme Grapheme Mapping

Episode 15: Instructional Routines - Elkonin Boxes Morphemes

Episode 16: Instructional Routines - Scrambled Sentences

Episode 17: Instructional Routines - Sentence Expansion

Episode 18: Instructional Routines - Blending Lines

Episode 19: Teaching the Word Recognition Strands

Episode 20: Instructional Routines - Morpheme Trees

Episode 21: Instructional Routines - Itty Bitty Books

Episode 22: Rethinking Time Allocations

Episode 23: coming soon!

Episode 24: coming soon!
Episode 25: coming soon!

Episode 26: Morphemes: Why bother?

Episode 27: Morphemes: Finding a common vocabulary

Episode 28: Why do some children write backwards?

Episode 29: A simple way to increase equity in your classroom

Episode 30: Choral responses

Episode 31: Structured partners

Episode 32: Vocabulary Routine

Episode 33: Benefits and Cautions of AI in Education

Episode 34: Chat GPT Supports Vocabulary Instruction

Episode 35: IES Practice Guides



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