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Lists and other word resources at Spelling City website. Heteronyms are words that are spelled the same but pronounced differently. e.g., I am content with my blog content.

Video of Pat Cunningham, professor at Wake Forest, discussing in detail how to teach letters, sounds, and words within a Four Blocks Literacy Framework.

This little girl has a great deal of difficulty with word identification. She is doing repeated reading of easy text to increase her sight word vocabulary, general fluency, and expression.

Analyzes text, does word count, keyword and key phrase frequency, and a variety of other analyses. Useful tool for writers and writing teachers. Could use to guide revision of discussion of revision.

Absolutely fabulous reading of Chris Raschka's "Charlie Parker Played Be Bop." Text visible throughout the reading. Great for independent (or teaching) experience to connect the words in the text to the sounds of Bebop jazz.

Predictable structure, nice message, good text for helping beginning readers acquire sight words and reading confidence.

Based on Cunningham's strategy. 50 lessons. iPad or iPhone.