Teacher-created activities, games, and tips aligned with science to help kids learn to read

Droppin’ Knowledge on Sight Words & Word Mapping: Strategies, Games, and Resources Aligned to the Science of Reading is a fun, actionable book that supports anyone teaching kids how to read. The research-based strategies included in this book take the focus off basic memorization and encourage kids to learn and permanently store high frequency words, while also reducing stress for parents, teachers, and kids throughout the reading process. It also includes activities for mapping words aligned to the phonics skills you are teaching and cheat sheets for mapping over 200 words!

Readers will find:

• Games that teach sight words (including heart words) through orthographic mapping
• Ready-to-use “quick win” activities perfect for bell work, homework, lesson plans, and extra credit assignments to deepen understanding and complement reading curriculum
• Practical tips and teaching strategies that help teach high frequency words in a more entertaining and effective way

Addressing the literacy crisis in a way that kids find relatable and enjoyable, Droppin’ Knowledge on Sight Words: Strategies, Games, and Resources Aligned to the Science of Reading is an essential handbook for K-5 teachers, reading specialists, and literacy coaches, along with reading tutors and all parents seeking to improve their child’s literacy skills.

Reproducible, research-based activities to help K-5 students learn phonics and spelling, fast

Educators and parents know we are facing a literacy crisis, but few know what to about it. Droppin’ Knowledge on Phonics & Spelling is an action-oriented guide written by experienced educators to bridge the gap between research and practice. Drawing on the latest evidence on how K-8 students learn best, Heidi Martin and Adam Martin have developed reproducible activities, games, and practical tips to bolster phonics and spelling curricula. All the books in the Droppin’ Knowledge series contain ready-to-go resources that you can use within your existing curriculum. These activities are perfect as warm-ups, homework, extra credit assignments, or in-class additions to your lesson plans. Deepen learners’ understanding of important phonics and spelling concepts and give them “quick wins” to increase confidence and activate prior learning.

Many Science of Reading books go into too much detail on the research background of teaching. For parent educators and teachers, Droppin’ Knowledge on Phonics offers a more accessible, immediately useful resource. With this book, you can teach students to read and help struggling readers, without a lot of background reading or ramp-up time.

• Find evidence-based reproducible activities that you can use right away to help students learn to read
• Amp up your spelling with practice and challenge words for all phonics skills in our scope & sequence
• Get phonics and spelling activities to enhance your lessons
• Bring the latest scientific evidence into your teaching, without a lot of background reading or extra planning

Anyone teaching students in grades K–5, including homeschooling parents and early career teachers, can easily implement the activities and techniques in this book. Reading specialists and literacy coaches will also appreciate this valuable, step-by-step resource library.

Fun activities, games, and tips to teach phonics to kids, written by teachers and backed by research

Droppin’ Knowledge on Foundational Skills: Phonological and Phonemic Awareness Exercises Aligned to Science of Reading is an essential companion for anyone teaching kids how to read, showing exactly what works, why it works, and how to do it. Written by Heidi and Adam Martin, two veteran teachers and popular education influencers determined to solve the literacy crisis, this book distills the latest research in the science of phonological and phonemic awareness and makes it accessible to all, regardless of experience or depth of formal training.

In this book, readers will explore:

• Word awareness, syllables, rhyming, onset and rime, phonemic isolation, blending, segmentation, addition, and deletion
• Practical strategies and tips to get kids ready to ensure kids have the foundational literacy skills they need to be successful readers and spellers
• Fun reproducibles and games that can be used as warm-ups and supplementary material to lesson plans

Droppin’ Knowledge on Foundational Skills: Phonological and Phonemic Awareness Exercises Aligned to Science of Reading earns a well-deserved spot on the bookshelves of all elementary and middle school teachers, literary coaches, reading specialists and tutors, and parents.