Early Literacy Tips to Support Language Development at Home
When we talk about language or English Language Arts and dyslexia, we are most often referring to reading and writing. But truly, language encompasses more….
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Memberships for Educators: Which is Right for You?
I know so many educators who are looking for more support. They’ll often ask me for my opinion about what different memberships and PD opportunities…
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How is Orton-Gillingham Diagnostic and Prescriptive?
All who are trained in Orton-Gillingham have something in common and that is that we follow this specific set of principles of the approach. These…
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5 Tips for Ensuring Effective Routines in Orton-Gillingham Lessons
Routines are an important part of Orton-Gillingham instruction for a number of reasons. Time is a precious commodity when working with students with dyslexia. Routines…
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Tips for Teaching the Y Rule
The suffixing rules represent a challenging but important set of spelling generalizations. They allowed students to write a wide variety of sentences using the full…
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Tips for Teaching the Drop E Rule
A particularly challenging, but important, set of spelling generalizations are the suffixing rules. They are important for students to be able to write using more…
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Holiday Wishlist: Gifts for Structured Literacy Teachers
If your partner, parent, child, sibling, or dear friend is a dedicated and hard-working structured literacy teacher or tutor, you may be searching for thoughtful…
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Tips for Teaching the Doubling Rule
One category of spelling rules that is particularly important is suffixing. These rules are particularly important because suffixes are so frequently used in our written…
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4 Steps for Teaching V/V Syllable Division
This is the final part of our series on syllable division. The easiest and most common type of syllable division is the division between consonants….
