
Using Word Ladders for Practicing Phonics Skills During Whole Group and Small Group Instruction
Research tells us that instruction is most impactful when phonemic awareness and phonics are done together. While previously it was suggested that phonemic awareness can be done in the dark, we now know how powerful it is to focus our phonemic awareness practice with letters. How do we do that? By giving students practice activities that focus on phoneme segmenting, blending, and manipulating while they’re working on reading and writing words. Word ladders are a great