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→ If you’re just getting started with structured literacy (or want to dive deeper into a specific instructional routine), start with the Reading Rules We Teach or trainings related to executive functioning, phonological awareness, phonics, vocabulary, fluency, comprehension, or writing. They will give you great foundations and simple routines you can implement with students right away.

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How To Teach Phonics So It Actually Sticks

You've taught the pattern. You've done the sound drill. You've pulled a worksheet of words that match. Your students did fine on it.

You've been doing the work. You've been giving the explicit instruction. But somewhere between the lesson and real reading and writing, the pattern stops carrying over.

It's frustrating because phonics is the part of literacy instruction with the clearest research base. It feels like it should be the most reliable piece, and most of the time it just isn't.