If you are an SLP, literacy teacher or K-5 classroom teacher, and you’re looking for a Phonological Awareness Screener, you’ve come to the right place! One of our tier 3 reading interventionists shared a link to a free screener just last week so I just had to share this with you! I’ve met too many people who were never taught that phonological awareness is one of the 5 foundational pieces […]
Read moreI’m always looking for foundation pieces that can help teachers with a scope and sequence in a solid curriculum. I feel that when you have a tool like this, teachers feel more confident with filling in the gaps and showing great progress. I recently had a conversation with one of our literacy instructors who mentioned to me that teachers typically send struggling readers to her asking for her help without […]
Read moreThis week’s video is the third and final video on decoding. So many of our children are visual learners, so what better way of teaching decoding than to take much of the mystery out of attacking words!!! Once again I am using the resource, Recipe for Reading and sharing the last of the syllable patterns and the final three syllable types. Take a look!!! Keep in mind that if your […]
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As I travel around from school to school and speak to teachers and parents, one thing is clear. They want their children to read. There is no longer any mystery about what a child needs to learn to read. The point of this week’s video is to make sure that both parents and teachers understand what five components make up the foundation of reading. Sometimes figuring out about where the […]
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