Instructional Routines

Inspired by the National Association for the Education of Young Children1

Explore explicit and systematic instructional routines that guide emergent readers to recognize, think about, and manipulate the individual sounds that make up spoken words. These easy-to-implement routines help establish a fundamental foundation for decoding and encoding written language.

Assist readers in isolating and identifying the initial, medial, and ending sound in spoken words.

Guide readers in recognizing when two words rhyme.

Preview Card

Using printable sound boxes, readers will practice blending individual phonemes together to form words and breaking words into individual sounds.

Tools to build phonemic awareness skills.


1. Referenced from "2010 NAEYC Standards for Initial & Advanced Early Childhood Professional Preparation Programs." National Association for the Education of Young Children, https://www.naeyc.org/sites/default/files/globally-shared/downloads/PDFs/our-work/higher-ed/NAEYC-Professional-Preparation-Standards.pdf.