by Jan and Kari | Feb 4, 2022 | Literacy Leadership
You may already know how much we LOVE the New Year with its fresh start and promise.But, even by the time calendar turns over to February, we can sometimes find ourselves fatiguing and starting to lose sight of our vision.It’s often easier for us to set big...
by Jan and Kari | Jan 27, 2022 | Literacy Leadership
If you approach learning to read and write as a speech-to-print -rather than as a print-to-speech – process, . . . . . . then you will want to start by making sure children have strong oral language. And if you are going to build children’s oral language, . . .....
by Jan and Kari | Jan 21, 2022 | Literacy Leadership
Ahh, the little prefix RE- ! Small but mighty! We’re believers in fresh starts and REvised approaches. We’re advocates of taking stock and REevaluating. And in both our personal and professional lives, January has been a time of RE- for us. REflecting on how we have...
by Jan and Kari | Dec 16, 2021 | Phonemic Awareness
It’s exciting when the little people we support start to know and recite some letter names and their associated sounds in response to seeing those little black marks on a page.But the problem is . . ….we’ve all known children who know LOTS, if not ALL, of the...
by Jan and Kari | Dec 9, 2021 | Blog
Phonics?Phonological awareness? Phonemic awareness? What’s the difference, really? And how can you keep all these phon- words straight? Well, confusion about the phon- words is created not only because they sound alike, but also because there is a great deal of...
