Abstract: FreeReading is an open source instructional program that helps educators teach early literacy. Because it is open source, it represents the collective wisdom of a wide community of teachers and researchers. FreeReading contains Advanced Phonics Activities, a page of sequential and supplemental activities that helps teachers teach students to read word families, compound words, contractions, double-letter words, silent-letter words, -ed words and -s words.
Abstract: This video segment from Between the Lions uses an alphabet song to review the ABCs, matching each letter with the name of a character from the show.
Abstract: This video segment from Between the Lions shows the practice of sounding out the word rocket part by part, blending sounds together to form a word.
Abstract: FreeReading is an open source instructional program that helps educators teach early literacy. Because it is open source, it represents the collective wisdom of a wide community of teachers and researchers. FreeReading contains, Intervention A, a 40-week scope and sequence of primarily phonological awareness and phonics activities that can support and supplement a typical kindergarten or first grade "core" or "basal" program.
Abstract: This video segment from Between the Lions features the Knights of Blending Fields demonstrating an important element of phonemic awareness: blending word parts to make a word.
Abstract: This video segment from Between the Lions uses an animated road sign to illustrate and spell familiar words that begin with the /k/ sound that the letter c makes.
Abstract: This video segment from Between the Lions uses a cheer--Hop 'Til You Drop--to build letter knowledge, and to demonstrate how movement and letter chanting can illustrate the words being spelled.
Abstract: FreeReading is an open source instructional program that helps educators teach early literacy. Because it is open source, it represents the collective wisdom of a wide community of teachers and researchers. FreeReading contains Irregular Word Activities, a page of sequential and supplemental activities that helps teachers teach students to read 30 high-frequency irregular words.
Abstract: FreeReading is an open source instructional program that helps educators teach early literacy. Because it is open source, it represents the collective wisdom of a wide community of teachers and researchers. FreeReading contains Letter Combination Activities, a page of sequential and supplemental activities that helps teachers teach students to recognize printed letter combinations and say the most common sounds for those combinations and to decode VCe words.
Abstract: FreeReading is an open source instructional program that helps educators teach early literacy. Because it is open source, it represents the collective wisdom of a wide community of teachers and researchers. FreeReading contains Letter Sound Activities, a page of sequential and supplemental activities that helps teachers teach students how to recognize printed letters and say the most common sound for each letter.
Abstract: FreeReading is an open source instructional program that helps educators teach early literacy. Because it is open source, it represents the collective wisdom of a wide community of teachers and researchers. FreeReading contains Letter Writing Activities, a page of sequential and supplemental activities that helps teachers teach students how to handwrite each letter of the alphabet properly.
Abstract: FreeReading is an open source instructional program that helps educators teach early literacy. Because it is open source, it represents the collective wisdom of a wide community of teachers and researchers. FreeReading contains Listening Vocabulary Activities, a page of supplemental activities that helps teachers teach students vocabulary words from various grade appropriate books.
Abstract: FreeReading is an open source instructional program that helps educators teach early literacy. Because it is open source, it represents the collective wisdom of a wide community of teachers and researchers. FreeReading contains Phonological Awareness Activities, a page of sequential and supplemental activities that helps teachers teach students the ability to identify and manipulate parts of spoken language.
Abstract: FreeReading is an open source instructional program that helps educators teach early literacy. Because it is open source, it represents the collective wisdom of a wide community of teachers and researchers. FreeReading contains Reading Connect Text Activities, a page of sequential and supplemental activities that helps teachers teach students to decode their first sentences in print.
Abstract: This video segment from Between the Lions presents an animated rhyming song to help tune the listener’s ear to language sounds, and it incorporates strategies for building vocabulary and fluency in reading.
Abstract: FreeReading is an open source instructional program that helps educators teach early literacy. Because it is open source, it represents the collective wisdom of a wide community of teachers and researchers. FreeReading contains Sounding Out Activities, a page of sequential and supplemental activities that helps teachers teach students to take a printed regular word and decode it by producing letter sounds and blending them.
Abstract: This video segment from Between the Lions uses a fun hip-hop song about names to highlight the /uh/ sound that the letter u makes and to boost phonemic awareness—an understanding of the sounds within words.
Abstract: FreeReading is an open source instructional program that helps educators teach early literacy. Because it is open source, it represents the collective wisdom of a wide community of teachers and researchers. FreeReading contains Word-Form Recognition Activities, a page of sequential and supplemental activities that helps teachers teach students to recognize and decode common words on sight.