BUILDING LITERACY
Building Literacy provides free resources for highly effective, evidence-based approaches that fully develop all students’ literacy abilities and are supported by the science of reading,
the science of learning,  and the author’s clinical and classroom experience. Assessing for learning and assisting struggling readers are emphasized. 

 

Assessing for Learning

Download informal tests for assessing basic phonics skills, sight word fluency,

and syllabic analysis. Learn about additional assessment resources.

Developing Syllabic Analysis

Explore a scope and sequence for developing syllabic analysis skills and download lessons for teaching four key syllabic analysis strategies.

Building Phonics Skills

Learn two highly effective approaches, word building and speech-to-print phonics for developing basic phonics skills and eight high-payoff activities for reinforcing these skills. Learn how to match early readers with materials that reinforce the skills they have been taught. See a listing of children’s books and articles that are ordered according to the phonics skills needed to read them.

Developing Morphemic analysis

Build students’ ability to use prefixes, suffixes, and roots (bases) to read and derive the meanings of unfamiliar words and increase vocabulary.

Implementing the Self-Teaching Hypothesis

Students’ ability to decode proficiently may depend on how well they teach themselves. Learn ways to foster students’ ability to develop and extend decoding skills through reading. 

Materials

Reading Disability & Dyslexia