Teach the six common syllable patterns to build reading and spelling skills for beginning readers as well as older readers who find reading and writing multisyllabic words challenging.

What is a story plot line? How do you teach the five elements of a plot line?

When teaching reading or spelling, the closed syllable is the first syllable type you should teach a beginning or remedial student. It is the most common syllable type and the easiest for students to learn. Here are tips for teaching the closed syllable type.

Open syllables are one of the six syllable types. After teaching closed syllables, open syllables are the next type to teach to beginning and remedial readers and spellers.

Vowel team syllables are one of the six syllable types. Find out more about them in this article.

Here is a description of the vowel-consonant-e syllable. Included are tips for teaching the VCE syllable, also known as the magic e syllable.

An introduction to basic spelling rules including when to use TCH, and DGE and how to incorporate phonics into spelling instruction.

Build reading fluency skills with daily practice. Fluent readers bring stories alive, and find more pleasure in reading.

Here are many examples of oxymorons, those words with contradictory meaning.

Here are some activities for teaching blending in reading