As an additional support to her five students struggling wit…

As an additional support to her five students struggling with the phonemic awareness lesson during whole group instruction, a kindergarten teacher uses Elkonin boxes with colored tiles. As the teacher says a word, the student moves a tile in a box for each sound they hear in the target word. The teacher calls on each student to tell her the sounds they hear in the word while touching the colored tiles. This strategy should enhance understanding of identifying sounds because:

A kindergarten teacher groups her students in pairs and give…

A kindergarten teacher groups her students in pairs and gives them each an alphabet card. (One student has an uppercase letter; the second has the same lowercase letter.) She provides each pair with a tic-tac-toe grid, and they have to play tic-tac-toe, writing the letter they were assigned.This activity allows the students to receive additional practice in mastering the skills related to:

In a class for students identified with specific learning di…

In a class for students identified with specific learning disabilities, the teacher begins her fluency instruction with sight word activities and uses decodable texts that relate to their weekly phonics lesson. This instruction will enable the students to make improvements in which area of fluency?