...because every child deserves reading success.
With far too much frequency, older students often need intensive instruction to learn to read with competence. You may have heard of the ‘third grade wall’, or the ‘fourth grade slump’. Both terms refer to students who managed to get by in Kindergarten, First, and Second Grade, but when they reach third or fourth grade…
B/d letter reversals, while common in Grades K and 1, tend be a bit more of a concern as students move beyond first grade. It is ALWAYS preferred to remediate letter formation issues as early as possible before bad habits set in. Read on to discover some handy tips and tricks for correcting b/d reversals.
Teachers, these books should be at the top of your New Year’s reading list! Our New Year’s resolution includes keeping up with our professional reading. Teachers, if that’s one of your goals, we have some amazing, must-read book recommendations for you! Read on to discover book recommendations that address the art, the science, and the…
Virtual tours are the ultimate in distance learning. In this second of a series on long distance learning we focus on the opportunity to combine language arts and history. This unit of study on the Holocaust (appropriate for learners Grade 7-Adult) is shown through the eyes of a young girl. A virtual tour of Anne…
The best way to use decodable running records, or any progress monitoring tool for that matter, is to use the results to inform instruction. We urge educators to move beyond the pass/fail mentality of assessments. Educators are diagnosticians. We must approach every assessment through that lens, and ask ourselves, “What does this tell me about…
One sure way to improve your students’ spelling accuracy is by using a technique that reinforces the alphabetic principle through matching the sound of the letter (phoneme) to the written form of the letter (grapheme). Our students use this highly effective, multisensory approach to spelling both phonetically irregular and decodable words. Using this method, students…
