So it's late November and we have just a few first graders who have not yet mastered their letters and sounds. For these little firsties, we needed to readjust their intervention plan and bump it up a knotch in terms of intensity. It's always difficult to find time in a … [Read more...]
Parent Handouts- Perfect for Conferences!
I am really envious of my friends and colleagues who are organized. I am just not one of those people. I'll confess my computer files are a mess. Files are saved on several different computers, in different folders and under a variety of file names. Well, conferences are … [Read more...]
Vocabulary Instruction- Why Learning From Context is Not Enough
Isabel Beck's book Bringing Words to Life has been sitting on my "should read" pile for quite some time. Well, honestly, quite some time is an understatement. I've heard so many raves and reviews from co-workers, I certainly should have read this book long ago. The title of … [Read more...]
DIY Word Family Sliders
Teaching students to identify "chunks" in words is an important step in learning to read. Identifying these "chunks" helps to build fluency as the student will not have to stop and blend each individual sound. Word families are groups of words that share the same ending. For … [Read more...]
8 Great Ideas for Teaching Segmenting and Blending
Phonemic awareness- the ability to hear and manipulate the sounds in spoken words and the understanding that spoken words are made up of sequences of speech sounds (Yopp, 1992) The best predictor of reading difficulty in kindergarten or first grade is the inability … [Read more...]
Multi-Sensory Ideas for Teaching Sight Words
In order to be fluent readers, students need to be able to recognize sight words quickly and accurately as these words make up between 50-70% of the words we encounter in text. Students who struggle learning sight words greatly benefit from using a multi-sensory approach to … [Read more...]
Assessing and Progress Monitoring Sight Words
One of the many benefits of my job is that I have the opportunity to travel to many different elementary buildings. I know you may be sitting there thinking, "I'd hate that", but it's actually tons of fun. Each building has it's own unique personality so every day of the … [Read more...]
Activities for Teaching the Magic e Rule
Learning vowels can be very challenging for our young readers and writers because they make different sounds in different words. Vowels can either make a short sound such as the /a/ sound in the word "cap" or a long sound, such as the /a/ in the word "lake". When reading, … [Read more...]
Using Hand Signals to Teach Short Vowel Sounds
Two years ago I was noticing a pattern when I was working with first grade students. I had groups of first graders who were very accurate with their short vowel sounds on the nonsense word fluency assessment of the DIBELS. At times, these kiddos would quickly make motions … [Read more...]
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