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.
Increasing Student Motivation & Engagement in Structured Literacy
For several years I have been striving to provide explicit, structured literacy instruction to intermediate, striving readers. I have had many successes and just as many failures. I then made one change that has made all the difference. It wasn’t a costly program or fancy resources. Do you want to know what made the most impact? It was simply telling students about the science of reading and their own data-driven 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!
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Advanced Phonics Plan for Success
How to Level Up Phonics Instruction for Older Students There are literally thousands of resources for teaching primary students foundational reading skills. I love that…
Orchestrating Learning Magic with Frequency Bias
You know the moment when you test drive a new car and then you see that model on every road? Or, when you learn about…
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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…
