B and D Reversals Solved!
After watching many of my students struggle with b and d reversals/confusion for years, I knew that I needed to offer some solutions. It would…
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Rethinking Heart Words!
This month we want to revisit Heart Word/ Red Words/ Irregular Words (whatever you’d like to call them!) The Orton Gillingham community has re-evaluated how to teach irregular words. This new way brings success to more students and creates more background knowledge about how language works. After doing this word analysis with students, I am convinced! Let’s take a look at 3 shifts for Heart Word Instruction.
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Orton Gillingham Material Must-Haves
There are so many incredible instructional resources and ideas out there. We have narrowed it down to our FAVORITE 15!
Teaching Prefixes and Suffixes: Morphology Matters!
What is MORPHOLOGY and Why Does it Matter? I was recently working with a group of 4th graders on decoding and spelling 3+ syllable words,…
It’s All About The Vowels
Vowels tend to be the most complicated and mysterious letters. Yet decoding, spelling, syllabication, and pronunciation are all dependent on the vowels in a word. …
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Big Kids Need Phonics Too Series! Step 5 Kill the Worksheet: Practice Can Be Play
So often we teach a concept and then proceed to give our students eighteen worksheets to practice that skill. Phonics has gotten a bad rap…
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Big Kids Need Phonics Too Series! Step 4: Read High-Interest, Skill-Based Passages
Step 4 is huge. There has been a recent BOOM in decodable books and texts and an equal boom of misunderstanding. What exactly does “decodable”…
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Big Kids Need Phonics Too Series! Step 3: Teach Syllables
Would you like to know the single greatest factor of older kids’ reading success? Do you have students guessing at longer words based on the…
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Big Kids Need Phonics Too Series! Step 2: Eliminate the Primary Vibe!
The first step to teaching reading in the intermediate grades is to know exactly where your students are in their literacy development. We often overlook…
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BIG Kids Need Phonics Too Series! Step 1: Diagnostic Assessments
Many children can get through kindergarten, first, and second-grade using visual memory, picture clues, and compensation skills. Their reading skills appear fairly intact. Then, around…
