Today's podcasts explores what blending is, how your child can learn this skill and the use of Elkonin boxes to support blending and segmenting.

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Today's episode explores the power of phonics games to support phonemic awareness reinforcement for your Language learners!

PHONICS RULES FOR KIDS empowers you, home educator, to confidently teach your child to read. Are you wondering if you have what it takes to teach your child foundational reading skills? Are you ready to cut through the curriculum clutter and know the exact skills you need to teach your child to become a confident reader? Does your child attend school in a classroom setting, yet still struggles with motivation to read at home?

I am your host, Melanie Jeffrey; a classroom teacher and parent with extensive training and ‘boots on the ground’ experience in teaching skills-based phonics instruction for kids. Our goal is to empower you, home educators, with pro tips for explicitly and systematically teaching phonics skills to your child.

This podcast will walk you through the 44 must know sounds for children learning to read. The simple to understand content of each episode will give you confidence that you are teaching your child the simple, must-have skills and practice activities to increase your child’s motivation and desire to read with confidence. If you’re ready to see a direct correlation in your child’s ability to read by applying phonics rules skill by skill, then you’re in the right place!

Links for Referenced Material:

‘Effects of Play-Based Learning on Phonemic Awareness and Phonics Skills’ by Kristen Heidecker at Minnesota State University

https://red.mnstate.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1514&context=thesis

Learning at the Primary Pond (Blog)

https://learningattheprimarypond.com/blog/why-you-should-let-your-students-play-game

PHONICS RULES FOR KIDS empowers you, home educator, to confidently teach your child to read. Are you wondering if you have what it takes to teach your child foundational reading skills? Are you ready to cut through the curriculum clutter and know the exact skills you need to teach your child to become a confident reader? Does your child attend school in a classroom setting, yet still struggles with motivation to read at home? I am your host, Melanie Jeffrey; a classroom teacher and parent with extensive training and ‘boots on the ground’ experience in teaching skills-based phonics instruction for kids. Our goal is to empower you, home educators, with pro tips for explicitly and systematically teaching phonics skills to your child. This podcast will walk you through the 44 must know sounds for children learning to read. The simple to understand content of each episode will give you confidence that you are teaching your child the simple, must-have skills and practice activities to increase your child’s motivation and desire to read with confidence. If you’re ready to see a direct correlation in your child’s ability to read by applying phonics rules skill by skill, then you’re in the right place!

Welcome home educators! My mission to empower you to confidently teach your child to read.

Check out the 44 Phonemes Chart from Reading Rockets:

https://www.readingrockets.org/sites/default/files/migrated/the-44-phonemes-of-english.pdf

PHONICS RULES FOR KIDS empowers you, home educator, to confidently teach your child to read. Are you wondering if you have what it takes to teach your child foundational reading skills? Are you ready to cut through the curriculum clutter and know the exact skills you need to teach your child to become a confident reader? Does your child attend school in a classroom setting, yet still struggles with motivation to read at home? I am your host, Melanie Jeffrey; a classroom teacher and parent with extensive training and ‘boots on the ground’ experience in teaching skills-based phonics instruction for kids. Our goal is to empower you, home educators, with pro tips for explicitly and systematically teaching phonics skills to your child. This podcast will walk you through the 44 must know sounds for children learning to read. The simple to understand content of each episode will give you confidence that you are teaching your child the simple, must-have skills and practice activities to increase your child’s motivation and desire to read with confidence. If you’re ready to see a direct correlation in your child’s ability to read by applying phonics rules skill by skill, then you’re in the right place!

PHONICS RULES FOR KIDS empowers you, home educator, to confidently teach your child to read. Are you wondering if you have what it takes to teach your child foundational reading skills? Are you ready to cut through the curriculum clutter and know the exact skills you need to teach your child to become a confident reader? Does your child attend school in a classroom setting, yet still struggles with motivation to read at home? I am your host, Melanie Jeffrey; a classroom teacher and parent with extensive training and ‘boots on the ground’ experience in teaching skills-based phonics instruction for kids. Our goal is to empower you, home educators, with pro tips for explicitly and systematically teaching phonics skills to your child. This podcast will walk you through the 44 must know sounds for children learning to read. The simple to understand content of each episode will give you confidence that you are teaching your child the simple, must-have skills and practice activities to increase your child’s motivation and desire to read with confidence. If you’re ready to see a direct correlation in your child’s ability to read by applying phonics rules skill by skill, then you’re in the right place!

PHONICS RULES FOR KIDS empowers you, home educator, to confidently teach your child to read. Are you wondering if you have what it takes to teach your child foundational reading skills? Are you ready to cut through the curriculum clutter and know the exact skills you need to teach your child to become a confident reader? Does your child attend school in a classroom setting, yet still struggles with motivation to read at home? I am your host, Melanie Jeffrey; a classroom teacher and parent with extensive training and ‘boots on the ground’ experience in teaching skills-based phonics instruction for kids. Our goal is to empower you, home educators, with pro tips for explicitly and systematically teaching phonics skills to your child. This podcast will walk you through the 44 must know sounds for children learning to read. The simple to understand content of each episode will give you confidence that you are teaching your child the simple, must-have skills and practice activities to increase your child’s motivation and desire to read with confidence. If you’re ready to see a direct correlation in your child’s ability to read by applying phonics rules skill by skill, then you’re in the right place!