Here is the fifth and final part to my Final Paper for Instructional Practices for Reading Teachers. Here is Part One, Two, Three, and Four. You are writing a grant in order to purchase literature and nonfiction trade books for integration into your curriculum. Discuss 5 reasons that you could include in your rationale for needing …
Four Methods for Teaching Phonics
Abstract: This essay discusses three alternatives to Synthetic Phonics Instruction: Analytic Phonics Instruction, Analogy-Based Phonics Instruction, and Embedded Phonics Instruction. Definitions and examples are given for each method, and the different strategies are compared to each other. The Synthetic and Analytic methods are traditional approaches, and the Analogy-Based and Embedded strategies are modern approaches. While …
Time to Plan for Christmas!
Hello everyone! What am I doing talking about Christmas when we're not even to Thanksgiving? Well, first of all, because there happens to be a lot of snow on the ground up here in good ol' Minnesota, which makes it feel like Christmas (not to mention the freezing temperatures that are more akin to December). Secondly, it never hurts …
Sarah E. Brown 