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…
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,…
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.…
“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…
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…
Excerpt from Phonics and Spelling Through Phoneme-Grapheme Mapping, by Kathryn E. S. Grace
“I have been looking forward to this publication for a long time. In the LETRS professional development…