I am so happy to have Anne-Marie Morey from the BayTreeBlog.com as a guest blogger! I absolutely LOVE Anne-Marie's blog and she's my go-to gal for issues relating to dyslexia. After reading her post, be sure to visit her blog and download her FREE Workbook for Letter … [Read more...]
Using Focus Sticks to Improve Student Writing
I love my job. I really, really do! One of the favorite parts about my job is that I get to network with a whole bunch of very talented teachers. I love hearing about and seeing them implement creative strategies to improve student learning. During the past several years, … [Read more...]
Strategies for Improving Handwriting
There is so much you can learn about a student’s phonics skills just from looking at writing samples. One of the big “ah-ha” moments from my Phonics First training (Orton-Gillingham based program) was when the trainer said that a student has not fully mastered a phonics rule … [Read more...]
Focus Sticks
I love my job. I really, really do! One of the favorite parts about my job is that I get to network with a whole bunch of very talented teachers. I love hearing about and seeing them implement creative strategies to improve student learning. During the past several years, … [Read more...]
Why Students Reverse Letters
Many parents become quite concerned when looking at their child's writing and see that their child is confusing letters such as b/d, p/q or m/w. Letter and word reversals have become so strongly associated with dyslexia that it's no wonder why parents are anxious when … [Read more...]
Teaching Students to Space Between Words
One of the great benefits of my job is that I have the privilege of working with many skilled professionals from various disciplines. We have a dynamite staff of Occupational Therapists who are never short of ideas and suggestions. I recently had a discussion with one of our … [Read more...]