Fluency

Compiled Oral Reading Fluency Norms (2017)

How Children Learn to Read Words: Ehri’s Phases By Holly B. Lane

Video: Teaching Kids to Read Big Words By Holly B. Lane

How Words Cast Their Spell  By R. Malatesha Joshi, Rebecca Treiman, Suzanne Carreker, and Louisa C. Moats

How Spelling Supports Reading By Louisa C. Moats

Hands-On Decoding: Guidelines for Using Manipulative Letters

By Paige Cullen Pullen and Holly B. Lane

This article provides evidence for the effectiveness of using manipulative letters to teach decoding skills and guidelines for how to create and implement decoding lessons using manipulative letters.

Blending Wheels: Tools for Decoding Practice

By Holly Lane and Paige Cullen Pullen

Learn about the importance of teaching students to decode and how the use of blending wheels can enhance classroom decoding practice. The article includes directions for how to make blending wheels and how to use them with your students.

Syllable Types: A Strategy for Reading Multisyllabic Words

By Mary Knight-McKenna

This article provides information about explicit strategy instruction for multisyllabic word decoding. It includes a description of syllable types, how to teach them, and how to help students use knowledge of syllable types to decode multisyllabic words.

Word Detectives: Using Units of Meaning to Support Literacy

Helping Students with Dyslexia Read Long Words Using Syllables and Morphemes

Morphological Analysis Instructional the Elementary Grades: Which Morphemes to Teach and How to Teach Them

Morphemes and Their Meanings

Teaching Big Words

ILA 2019 Brief on Phonics

Preventing Reading Failure: Phonological Awareness Assessment and Instruction

By Holly B. Lane, Paige C. Pullen, Mary R. Eisele, and Luann Jordan

This article provides an overview of phonological awareness development and its relationship to beginning reading. It also includes methods for formal and informal assessment and strategies for classroom-based instruction in phonological skills for emergent readers.

Phonological Awareness Activities

Phonological Awareness Umbrella

Speech to Print: Language Essentials for Teachers By Louisa Cooks Moats

Beginning to Read: Thinking and Learning About Print By Marilyn Jager Adams

Making Sense of Phonics By Isabel Beck and Mark Beck

Equipped for Reading Success By David A. Kilpatrick

Unlocking Literacy: Effective Decoding and Spelling Instruction By Marcia K. Henry and Maryanne Wolf