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Phonics Intervention
Why Older Students Get Stuck on Multisyllabic Words
A capable student who reads short words but freezes on photosynthesis is not unmotivated. Five root causes explain it, and all five are teachable.
Oct 8, 2026Read article →
Phonics Intervention
The Flexible Strategy: How to Teach Big-Word Decoding Step by Step
A four-step routine for teaching older students to decode long words: circle the affixes, underline the vowels, read by parts, confirm. With a think-aloud script.
Oct 3, 2026Read article →
Phonics Intervention
Phonics Intervention for Middle and High School: A Guide for Teachers
How to tell whether a struggling older reader has a decoding problem, and where to start if they do. Three ten-minute checks, one strategy, one daily block.
Oct 3, 2026Read article →
Following the build?
On Substack I write about the more technical side of building the Juniper Reading CoLab apps as a nontechnical app builder.
Read the build notes on Substack