A Maine educator didn’t have a curriculum to teach a foundational skill for reading. So she created her own

The instructional coach revamped how young kids pull apart and put together letter sounds to form words. Her program is now being piloted in six Maine school districts.
Oregonian

Oregon children arrive at kindergarten knowing few letters, fewer sounds

Delila Ortiz Ponce, a kindergartner at Gilbert Park Elementary in the David Douglas school district, answered kindergarten readiness questions for her teacher, Jessika Evers, when taking the new state ...
Los Angeles Times

How do you teach phonics? Use this reading activity to pair letters and sounds with your child

Phonics is a method that teaches children how to read by linking letters together based on sound groups. Together, these alphabetical combinations can aid children to easily begin pairing them by ...
Newsday

Making up for learning loss, Lynbrook students connecting letters, sounds

Lynbrook kindergarten teacher Juliana Rotman stood at the front of the class, held up cards with the letters that spelled the word “swift” and asked her students to follow along using only the sounds ...
PBS

Short Vowels 2 | PreK-K Letters & Sounds

In this lesson Julia starts by doing a mindful moment Rainbow Breathing exercise and discusses some learning strategies to use in school. Then using letter cards she sings to review the letter sounds ...
PBS

Rhyming Words | PreK-K Letters and Sounds

In this lesson, Julia starts by doing a mindful moment snowman breathing exercise. In this lesson, Julia starts by doing a mindful moment snowman breathing exercise and discusses some learning ...