ARCHIVED CONTENT: This page contains links to resources previously found on the Resources and Resources for Classroom Teachers pages of our website. They are hanging out here for the time being so that you can still have access until we build their new homes on our redesigned, updated website!
Free Resources
Our goal at Logic of English is to make real answers about English and knowledge about literacy education that works for all students available to everyone. In addition to our free videos, we offer a variety of other free resources for students, parents, teachers, and administrators.
Videos
From short clips explaining the spelling of "crazy words," to Denise Eide's eye-opening presentation on the Logic of English, our free online videos offer a wealth of information for English teachers and learners alike!
Handwriting Paper Downloads
A downloadable PDF file with different line sizes and a "drawing paper" layout variation with space at the top to illustrate. Download the PDF, choose the format that works best for your child, and print!
Handwriting Tips Printout
Helpful tips for teachers and parents!
Blog
A wealth of tips, guidance, and answers about Logic of English curriculum, reading and spelling instruction, and why English words are spelled the way they are.
High-Frequency Word Lists
Lists of high-frequency words and a discussion about phonics and fluency.
Spelling Analysis Tutorial
A step-by-step guide to teaching spelling analysis like a pro, helping your students become fluent readers and spellers as they apply the phonograms and spelling rules to read and write words.
Word Wall Templates
A great resource for the classroom or schoolroom wall! Use our free Word Wall templates to help organize your Word Wall by phonogram or by sound. Rather than listing assorted sight words to be memorized by rote, help your students think critically about the words they are learning and the different options for spelling a sound.
Research Studies
Click here to learn more about the reading education and linguistics research behind the Logic of English and our approach to literacy instruction.
Click here to read preliminary findings from schools piloting Logic of English in their classrooms.
Resources for Classroom Teachers
All of our curriculum is applicable to classroom teachers, as well as to tutors and home educators. You'll find lots of information across our website about words and why they are spelled the way they are, LOE curriculum, and effective approaches to literacy instruction.
However, in this section we've collected links to some of the resources we think will be especially helpful for those of you teaching Logic of English in a classroom setting!
Most popular Classroom Teacher resources!
Sample Parent Letter: Starting LOE in your classroom - *updated link coming soon*
Use this letter as written, or adapt it as needed for your setting, to introduce your students' parents to what their children will be learning in Logic of English! (updated letter coming soon)
Free Word Wall Templates
Organize your classroom word wall by phonogram, spelling rule, or sound!
LOE Progress Monitor Checklists
Checklists for tracking student progress with the skills taught in Foundations and Essentials, including target skills and expected mastery levels for each lesson.
Live Classroom Videos
Logic of English in action! Classroom videos and teacher interviews recorded by Logic of English, as well as others shared with us by teachers and schools.
Downloadable Classroom Resources
LOE Progress Monitor Checklists
Checklists for tracking student progress with the skills taught in Foundations and Essentials, including target skills and expected mastery levels for each lesson.
Handwriting paper downloads
Choose the color and line size you want and then print out pages for your students!
Pullout group activities for struggling second grade readers using Essentials
A chart of activities you can do in a pullout group to support second grade struggling readers. Includes correlation with readers from Foundations to help you provide fun, confidence-building, age-appropriate reading comprehension practice!
Free spelling analysis tutorial
A detailed step-by-step guide to how to lead your students through spelling analysis, with links to spelling analysis videos.
Reader Analysis Checklist - *updated link coming soon*
Wondering where in Foundations students will have learned all the tools needed to read a particular early reader? We've created a checklist to help you find out. Download the checklist here, and see a list of books that are decodable at different points in Foundations lessons.
School-to-Home Connections — Resources for Engaging Parents with LOE
Sample Parent Letter: Starting LOE in your classroom - *updated link coming soon*
Use this letter as written, or adapt it as needed for your setting, to introduce your students' parents to what their children will be learning in Logic of English!
Take-Home Phonogram Game Sets
Printable phonogram game sets for at-home Foundations and Essentials practice, plus other ideas for phonogram practice at home.
The Logic of English Presentation
A fantastic introduction to the Logic of English for parents or for anyone! Award-winning author Denise Eide reveals phonograms and spelling rules which explain 98% of English words. No longer will you need to tell your children, "that is an exception," when they misread or misspell a word. Your understanding of English will be transformed!
Interactive Phonogram Chart
It's back with a new design! See the phonograms and hear all their sounds! A great way for parents to explore and review the phonograms their children are learning in school. Especially helpful for English language learners!
Lesson Planning
Schedules for Essentials
Accelerate, decrease the pace, incorporate the reader, plan an intensive remediation — all sorts of tips for creating your Essentials schedule.
Scheduling Ideas for Summer Reading Camps and Short-Term Interventions
Fast-paced schedules for Essentials, designed for those who have a narrow window of opportunity to introduce students to as many of the tools for reading as possible.
Adjusting the Pace of Foundations Lessons
Suggestions for setting your schedule
Starting Foundations with students who are already reading
Suggestions for how to increase the pace and level of challenge of Foundations lessons for strong readers
Standards
Lists of the ELA standards fulfilled by Foundations and Essentials.
Extra reader ideas for Foundations
A list of additional books that can be decoded at various points in the Foundations lessons, before children finish learning all the phonograms at the end of level C. You can also download a chart to help you analyze readers (*updated link coming soon*) yourself to see what phonograms and spelling rules they use and where they fit into Foundations!
High-Frequency Words Page
Sight words? Phonics? Kill and drill? What's the best way to help beginning readers develop fluency with the most common words? How does Logic of English curriculum teach them? Explore these questions and more, and see lists of the high-frequency words students learn in Logic of English.
Training Resources
Interactive Phonogram Chart
It's back with a new design! See the phonograms and hear all their sounds!
Spelling Rules-webpage is undergoing a redesign in 2020, but the rules are linked here.
The 31 spelling rules taught in Logic of English, in an online chart so you can check them on the go!
Critical Thinking Skills for Reading, Spelling, and Literacy
70-minute in-service teacher training video. If you're new to Logic of English or looking for a way to introduce it to your colleagues, start here.
2012 Teacher Training Video Course
A five-hour online training for those preparing to teach Logic of English — available for FREE! (For new and more comprehensive training options, visit our Professional Development page.)
Spelling List Videos
Watch Denise Eide model the process of Spelling Analysis. In each video, she guides students through the process of understanding 25 new spelling words and why they are spelled the way they are.
Other Reading, Spelling, and Training Videos
Free online videos and training about phonograms, spelling rules, handwriting, fluency, teaching spelling analysis, helping struggling readers and spellers, using Logic of English curriculum, and more!
Highlights from the LOE Blog: guidance, teacher tips, and answers to common questions
How much should we review after a break?
The purpose of Foundations spelling lists
Does teaching Cursive interfere with Reading?
What is a Schwa? Helping Students Read and Spell the Schwa Sound
Using Spelling Rule Cards and memorizing spelling rules
The Gift of Struggling Students
Addressing Cynical Students: Providing Real Help to Struggling Readers
Sink and Pink: How do you pronounce the I?
Support
LOE Curriculum Support
We love to answer your questions! Search our Blog for answers, browse our Help Center, or give us a call or email. We are happy to help.
Facebook User Group
Our educator user group, LOE Classroom Educators, is a place for those using Logic of English curriculum in a classroom setting to share ideas, ask questions, and share classroom pictures, videos, and experiences. If you're on Facebook and using LOE in your classroom, come join the discussion!