Kathryn E.S. Grace, CAGS

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A Family’s Gift of Time Helps Develop a Foundation for Literacy

Family LiteracyFebruary 24, 2024436Views 0Likes 0Comments

1. Talk to your child from birth on. Talk about everything. 2. Play with sounds. Listen for sounds around your house like water running, the train going by and birds chirping outside your window. 3. Name things as you point to the objects or pictures when “reading” with your child.…

Families Play a Key Role in Children’s Literacy

Family LiteracyFebruary 24, 2024292Views 0Likes 0Comments

From the moment babies are born, they start developing literacy skills through their relationship with their parents and family. By talking, reading, singing, and playing with your infant or toddler, you provide the foundation your child will need to develop language and reading skills. Early literacy skills include listening, speaking, reading, and writing.…

Reading Instruction: A Historical Timeline

Phoneme-Grapheme Mapping, Phonics, Phonological Awareness, Syllable Based InstructionMarch 30, 2023743Views 0Likes 0Comments

1700s–Mid-1800s: Children are taught to read through memorization of the alphabet, practice with sound-letter correspondences, and spelling lists. The prevailing texts used for teaching reading are the Bible and political essays. Mid-1800s: Inspired by Jeffersonian democratic ideals, some educators attack phonics and urge a meaning-based approach to learning to read. Late 1800s: All-purpose reading materials are replaced by…

The Role of Orthographic Mapping in Learning to Read and Spell

Orthographic Mapping, PhonicsJanuary 30, 2023640Views 0Likes 1Comment

“Orthographic mapping is a brain activity that involves parts of the brain connecting graphemes and phonemes within words.” (Ehri 2022) Orthographic maps are set up in the brain when decoding and spelling activities are performed. This allows a word to become embedded in long term memory as a unique letter string after it has been…

Phoneme-Grapheme Mapping

Books, Phoneme-Grapheme Mapping, PhonicsJanuary 30, 2023399Views 0Likes 0Comments

I created Phoneme-Grapheme Mapping in 1983 to help students (and teachers) understand the reality that the number of sounds (phonemes) they hear in a word may be different from the number of letters that represent those sounds. This procedure employs a variety of mapping methods to illustrate the complex, yet predictable, phoneme grapheme relationships in…

Author page: Kathryn E.S. Grace, CAGS

Kathryn E.S. Grace, CAGS

A Family’s Gift of Time Helps Develop a Foundation for Literacy

Families Play a Key Role in Children’s Literacy

Reading Instruction: A Historical Timeline

The Role of Orthographic Mapping in Learning to Read and Spell

Phoneme-Grapheme Mapping

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