Solving Reading Challenges With Structured Literacy: Episode 78

Send us Fan MailWatch episode 76 on Letter Sound Blending - https://youtu.be/MU2t1DHD8VM?si=30GAWCGO6Xxnnt8N.TD Flenaugh discusses structured literacy, a method aligned with the science of reading, aimed at solving reading issues in 95% of children if practiced systematically five days a week. This episode involves four of the 8 stages of structured literacy: phonological awareness, reviewing letter sounds, letter sound blending (decoding) , and encoding (dictation). TERMSPhonological awareness focuses on manipulating sounds in words, which includes the highest stage of phonemic awareness.Phoneme - The smallest unit of sound in a wordLetter-sound blending (decoding) - connecting sounds to letters to sound out words or to read a word using letter and sound rules.Encoding (dictation) - involves writing words based on their sounds. Flenaugh emphasizes the importance of not correcting children while they write to avoid discouragement and instead highlighting what they did well. Resources and further support are available at fallingforlearning.com.T.D. Flenaugh promotes her books, "The R.E.W.R.I.T.E. Method" and "The R.E.W.R.I.T.E. Method Workbook," to help children improve their writing skills - https://fallingforlearning.com/home-9066.Support the showWe drop new episodes every Saturday at 5 p.m. Pacific Time. Follow us: Instagram -  https://www.instagram.com/fallingforlearning/Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/fallingforlearning/https://linktr.ee/falling4learning