Logic of English
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Sparking curiosity to light the way to literacy because literacy leads to a brighter future 💡
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🎉 NEW PRODUCT ALERT! 🎉. Make It Make Sense: Morphology is here! Unlock vocabulary and comprehension by understanding how words are built. Learn the power of prefixes, suffixes, and roots. This visual guide teaches over 50 common morphemes, empowering students to become word
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On days when you want to stay inside, use student creativity to make a word quilt, create your own board game or write your own story! Students can practice spelling by writing words on pieces of paper and decorating them to show the meaning. For more advanced students, have
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Learning about morphemes helps us uncover the logic and fascinating connections in language!
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Read this sentence out loud—> “Throw the ball over there.”. Put your hand on your throat and say /th/ as in throw. Now say /TH/ as in there. Can you feel the difference? Your voice box is turned on for /TH/ and turned off for /th/ making these two sounds a voiced and unvoiced
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It’s true! We often talk about utilizing our curriculum for students who need extra help in reading and spelling, but both Foundations and Essentials can be used with strong readers and spellers as well! Strong readers and spellers simply apply the rules and knowledge faster and
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Introduce a spelling rule that explains where to use the spelling of the sound(s) in the same lesson. Practice reading and spelling words that use the phonogram and rule!
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Our word lists are a great tool for introducing and reinforcing the 75 phonograms and 45 phonemes essential for reading. Use them to assess decoding skills by having students read words in isolation. Whether in Foundations, Essentials, or another curriculum, these lists offer
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"Can we talk about how much I love Logic of English?! I feel lucky that I found this curriculum when my oldest was in K, so we are on year three, with two kids in, and my youngest starting level A next year. Today, I had an opportunity to sit and play one-on-one learning games
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“What if the problem is not the language itself, but the rules we were taught? What if we could see the complexity of English as a powerful tool rather than a hindrance?” — Denise Eide
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Fluency grows as students apply their phonemic awareness and phonics skills to decode words. With practice, students become faster and faster at decoding until they have developed automaticity and fluency. Learn more about how the brain learns to read!
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Here are the top 10 most used letters in English!. 1. E.2. A.3. R.4. I.5. O.6. T.7. N.8. S.9. L.10. C. Any guesses why E comes in at number 1?
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Play hopscotch, make a maze or just have fun writing and reading phonograms with sidewalk chalk! Have your student read the sounds of each phonogram that has been written with sidewalk chalk and then spray the chalk clean with a spray bottle, squirtgun, water hose, or have them
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The pronunciation of the word “one” has shifted over time. Thankfully, English is a morpho-phonemic language, and often, we can see the reason behind the spelling by connecting it to the meaning. Despite it being amongst the 2% of true exceptions to English spelling rules and
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Reading books is always a great way for students to engage in literacy over the summer. Take a fun trip to the library, find a sunny spot to read together or let your student choose a book to read to you. For a twist, cover the pictures in a book and have the student draw
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RT @PapaeWymore: Loved learning from @LogicofEnglish Thanks for sharing your knowledge with Iowa Higher Ed! ❤️
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If your student is an advanced reader between the ages of 4-7, you may want to consider starting with Foundations B. Instead of focusing on developing early reading skills, the purpose of using Foundations B with an advanced reader is to help them understand the phonograms and
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The Simple View of Reading demonstrates that to have strong comprehension skills students need BOTH strong language comprehension skills AND strong decoding skills. (Gough & Tunmer, 1986).
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Controlled texts include words that use only the phonetic concepts the student has learned so far in their scope and sequence. Decodable reader and controlled reader are synonyms. At Logic of English we prefer to call them controlled readers to emphasize that the text has been
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Our mission is to make the rules of the English language accessible to all! In that spirit, we are putting our 2019 training online for free. We hope that this information helps to support and transform your teaching practice!
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