This coming school year will be our 9th year of our Response to Intervention (RtI) initiative. Honestly, the years have passed so quickly and it’s hard for me to remember how we used to function before RtI. Not that everything is perfect now by any means, but RtI has become such … [Read more...]
Phonological Awareness, Phonemic Awareness and Phonics
Several years back all the K-6 and special education teachers in our districts participated in the Language Essentials for Teachers of Language and Spelling (LETRS) training. One of the beginning sessions introduced the the five key areas of reading instruction proposed by the … [Read more...]
Bead Slide: A Tool for Teaching Phoneme Segmentation
The bead slide is one of my favorite tools to use when teaching the phonemic awareness skill of phoneme segmentation. They are so simple to make. Check out the video to see how to use and make the bead slide. Sometimes it's just hard to come up with words … [Read more...]
Reflections on Reading
At the end of May, my oldest daughter will be graduating from high school (sniff, sniff). Our local high school honors the top academic graduates each year by having a banquet. Through hard work, dedication and the opportunity of having top-notch teachers all through school, … [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...]
Four Ways to Build Reading Fluency
I'm on spring break now and before leaving had to decide which book to pack for reading on the beach. I came oh so close to purchasing the Hunger Games, but grabbed Timothy Rasinski's book The Fluent Reader from our loaning library at work instead (sad, I know). I've read … [Read more...]
Helping Students Move to Blending Consonant-Vowel-Consonant Words
Our seven school districts changed from using the DIBELS 6th Edition to the DIBELS Next this school year. Following each benchmark assessment we were just a little bit nervous (actually, really nervous) as to what our data would look like. Would any changes we see be a result … [Read more...]
Bunny Hop Sight Word Game Boards
Game boards are always a favorite activity for practicing skills during literacy centers. Even more fun than a regular game board is a HUGE classroom sized game board! Kyle (my very talented graphic artist) created these bunny feet to make the perfect game board for celebrating … [Read more...]
A Springtime Activity for Sorting Consonant Digraphs
I've been feeling like I've been neglecting my first and second grade teaching friends lately by posting bunches of early reading activities. When I purchased those cute little flower boxes at Walmart for the Springtime Vowel Sorting, I couldn't help but pick up a few of those … [Read more...]
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