5 Tips for Teaching Scribal O
Scribal o is a spelling convention with a fascinating historical story. The History of Scribal O Long ago, before the printing press was in common…
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Is It Time to Shake Up Your Visual Card Drill?
Is it time to breathe new life into the visual card drill portion of your Orton-Gillingham or structured literacy lessons? After your students become familiar…
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6 Tips for Finding Orton-Gillingham Practicum Students
Finding Orton-Gillingham practicum students may seem intimidating, but it can be quite easy if you’re networking in the right places! What is an Orton-Gillingham Practicum?…
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Is it -OUS or -US? How to Teach This Spelling Generalization
The more students know the more complicated spelling becomes. They begin to need to take into consideration not only sound and symbol correspondence, but the…
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How to Use Writing to Improve Morphological Awareness
For students with dyslexia, composing a piece of writing can be incredibly challenging. Writing requires the orchestration of many complex tasks. Students must: This cognitive…
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Tips for Using Controlled Text to Build Morphological Awareness
It’s important to help our students build their morphological awareness, but how can we do this? By using controlled text! What is morphological awareness? Morphological…
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11 Tips for Teaching -able and -ible
As students move on to more advanced concepts, certain spelling conventions don’t fit neatly into a clear-cut rule with a catchy turn of phrase. They…
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Creating a Dyslexia Awareness Display: What, Why, and How!
Although many schools avoid the word dyslexia, favoring “specific learning disability”, it is important to say the word dyslexia for a few key reasons. Using…
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10 Tips for Teaching Closed Syllable Exceptions
While the syllable types explain many spellings and pronunciations in English, we still come across some words that don’t quite work the way we expect…
