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7 Fun Syllable Activities for Learners
What is a Syllable? A syllable is a single sound or a beat in a word. Learning about syllables shows a learner that words are made up of units of sound. These units of sound are syllables. Understanding syllables will improve reading and spelling...
Phonics Jargon – Introducing 7 Commonly Used “In the Classroom” Terms
Teaching phonics to early learners has become a large part of the classroom environment in recent years but the jargon that goes with it can seem like a foreign language to some of us. Our little ones come home with worksheets asking us to match the phoneme in words...
What is Phonics?
Phonics is the skill of matching the sounds that we use to speak with one letter or a group of letters. Phonics gives learners the tools to unlock letter codes to read and write without the mystery. Letters of the English alphabet have names and sounds. We...
The Guilt of Not Working More, When We’re Done for the Day
At the end of a day of work, there can be a simple practice of wrapping things up and shutting down for the day. But so many of us feel guilty at simply stopping, and this feeling that we should be doing more … it drives some of us to keep going as long as we can....