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In 2000, the National Reading Panel report outlined five essential components of effective reading instruction for young children: phonemic awareness, phonetics, fluency, vocabulary, and reading comprehension. Phonics is key, as breaking down words into their individual sounds helps children gradually understand and build their reading and writing skills. Phonic activities like these will help build reading fluency in young students. Also, for more help teaching phonetics, check out this free guide to teaching the science of reading from our friends at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 1. Start with anchor charts When it comes to phonetics, there is a lot to learn. Hang anchor charts around the room to help kids remember important rules like silent E, vowel shuffles, and hard and soft C and G. Here are all of our favorite phonetics anchor charts. 2. Color the initial sounds Most children begin learning phonetics by mastering the initial sounds of words. Let kids color the words t...

Helping students cope with trauma begins with taking care of yourself How many nights have you gone home after class or checked out just to keep thinking about your students? It probably happens all the time. Now, how many nights have you spent contemplating your own well-being or practicing teacher self-care? Most teachers would say not nearly as many. When thinking about trauma and stress in schools, the focus is often on the students. But teachers do it too Trauma. "We become teachers because we care so much about our students," a Florida teacher recently told Buzzfeed. "And I had a hard time allowing myself to fully process some of my stuff because I process a lot of my students' stuff." "If you take care of the teachers, ...