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  • How the Brain Reads

    If you are a skilled reader, you can comprehend this sentence as soon as you read it. Yet the process of reading is incredibly complex, and to do it your brain must integrate two normally distinct functions: visual processing and language comprehension. Not surprisingly, the first step in reading involves visual processing, which occurs in…

  • Holding Students Back Fails

    I published this post last week but added an addendum to the end of the article based on a reader comment. Last week, I wrote about being told that my daughter should be held back in first grade because she wasn’t learning to read fast enough. Her teachers tried to convince me that retaining a…

  • Is Learning to Read the Same as Learning to Talk?

    Short answer: No! Some twenty years ago my daughter’s first grade teacher and several education specialists called me into a meeting. I had no idea why– my daughter had no behavioral issues and I thought she was doing well in school. She wasn’t. At this meeting, I was told that my daughter was not learning…

  • One syllable words sorted by sound: /h/

    I am creating lists of one syllable words sorted by sound. This week’s sound is /h/, which is always spelled with the letter h. If you can think of words that I missed, put them in the comments section of my Substack post: https://andreahazard.substack.com/p/one-syllable-words-sorted-by-sound-be1?r=38en9f&triedRedirect=true

  • One syllable words sorted by sound: /o/

    I am creating lists of one syllable words sorted by sound. Last week, I listed rg as an ending consonant blend of the g sound, but an astute reader pointed out that an r that follows a vowel is blended with that vowel and is not a true consonant. Good catch! This week’s sound is…

  • One syllable words sorted by sound: /g/

    I am creating lists of one syllable words sorted by sound. This week’s sound is /g/. Beginning consonant blends with the /g/ sound include gl and gr. The only ending consonant blend with the /g/ sound that I can think of is rg, and I can think of only two one syllable words with this…

  • One syllable words sorted by sound: /i/

    I am creating lists of single syllable words sorted by sound. This week the sound is /i/, or short i. If you can think of any one syllable words with the /i/ sound that I missed, put them in the comments section of my Substack post.

  • One syllable words sorted by sound: /f/

    I am creating lists of one syllable words sorted by sound. The sound this week is /f/, which can be spelled ‘f’, ‘ff’, or ‘gh’ If you can think of any one syllable, non-swear words with the /f/ sound that I missed, put them in the comments section of my Substack post: https://andreahazard.substack.com/p/one-syllable-words-sorted-by-sound-0b9

  • One syllable words sorted by sound: /e/

    I am creating lists of one syllable words sorted by sound. This week, the sound is /e/, which is usually spelled ‘e’. However, the /e/ sound can also be spelled ‘ea’, ‘ai’, ay’, ‘ue’, and ‘ie’. If you can think of any spellings of the /e/ sound that I missed, put them in the comments section…