Trostle Talk - 36 & 37
Letter names or Letter Sounds: What should I teach first?
Professional Learning Tidbits for Teachers in About Two Minutes
Resources
Shanahan on Literacy: Letter names or letter sounds first?
slides from Lucy Hart Paulson PaTTAN Literacy Symposium presentation
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
Embedded Picture Mnemonics
OnLit's embedded mnemonics include an instructional routine for teachers
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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.
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.
Past Episodes
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