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What children learn in Module 1 — foundational phonics skills including letter-sound correspondence, short vowels, and CVC blending for beginning readers

What Children Learn in Module 1: Foundational P...

Tanya Paris

Module 1 teaches the foundational phonics skills every beginning reader needs — letter-sound correspondence, short vowels, blending, and segmenting. Science of Reading aligned, Reading League vetted, and designed for Pre-K...

What Children Learn in Module 1: Foundational P...

Tanya Paris

Module 1 teaches the foundational phonics skills every beginning reader needs — letter-sound correspondence, short vowels, blending, and segmenting. Science of Reading aligned, Reading League vetted, and designed for Pre-K...

A Is for Apple: Letter A Activities for Kindergarten & Preschool

A Is for Apple: Letter A Activities for Kinderg...

Tanya Paris

Teaching the letter A? Go beyond 'A is for apple.' This post shares simple, hands-on letter A activities for kindergarten and preschool — including beginning-sound games, letter formation practice, and...

A Is for Apple: Letter A Activities for Kinderg...

Tanya Paris

Teaching the letter A? Go beyond 'A is for apple.' This post shares simple, hands-on letter A activities for kindergarten and preschool — including beginning-sound games, letter formation practice, and...

learning the letters and sounds

Z Is for Zebra: Letter Z Activities for Kinderg...

Tanya Paris

Looking for letter Z activities for kindergarten and preschool? This post covers how to teach the letter Z — from the /z/ sound and Z words like zebra, zoo, and...

Z Is for Zebra: Letter Z Activities for Kinderg...

Tanya Paris

Looking for letter Z activities for kindergarten and preschool? This post covers how to teach the letter Z — from the /z/ sound and Z words like zebra, zoo, and...

V Is for Violin: Letter V Activities for Kindergarten & Preschool

V Is for Violin: Letter V Activities for Kinder...

Tanya Paris

Looking for letter V activities for kindergarten and preschool? This post covers everything you need to teach the letter V — from the /v/ sound and V words like violin,...

V Is for Violin: Letter V Activities for Kinder...

Tanya Paris

Looking for letter V activities for kindergarten and preschool? This post covers everything you need to teach the letter V — from the /v/ sound and V words like violin,...

Beyond Phonics: How to Create Science of Reading-Aligned Kindergarten Lessons Through Hands-On Learning

Beyond Phonics: How to Create Science of Readin...

Tanya Paris

Teaching kindergarten students to read begins with strong phonics instruction. Children need explicit instruction in letters, sounds, blending, and decoding. But meaningful reading development requires more than learning sounds in...

Beyond Phonics: How to Create Science of Readin...

Tanya Paris

Teaching kindergarten students to read begins with strong phonics instruction. Children need explicit instruction in letters, sounds, blending, and decoding. But meaningful reading development requires more than learning sounds in...

teacher reading aloud to children

Read Aloud en Español: How to Build Spanish Lit...

Tanya Paris

If you support a child learning to read in Spanish, you already know how powerful it is to read aloud together. There's something that happens when a student hears fluent,...

Read Aloud en Español: How to Build Spanish Lit...

Tanya Paris

If you support a child learning to read in Spanish, you already know how powerful it is to read aloud together. There's something that happens when a student hears fluent,...