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Top Benefits of Doodling and Sketching For Literacy Intervention

Top Benefits of Doodling and Sketching For Literacy Intervention

Doodling, sketching, and visual note-taking are powerful learning tools that belong in the classroom! Putting pen or pencil to paper – whether doodling, sketching, or note-taking – while taking in audio information can be used as a mnemonic device. This process connects images with information and significantly increases our ability to remember what we’ve heard….

Frequency of Orton-Gillingham Lessons: Why Students Need More Than One Lesson a Week

Frequency of Orton-Gillingham Lessons: Why Students Need More Than One Lesson a Week

Orton-Gillingham is not a specific program or scope and sequence. Instead, Orton-Gillingham is an approach to teaching reading and spelling. Orton-Gillingham is guided by a set of principles that support structured literacy methodology. Highly trained Orton-Gillingham teachers follow these guiding principles when teaching students. The principles ensure that Orton-Gillingham lessons are systematic and sequential, multisensory,…

The Literacy Nest is an Accredited IACET Provider!

The Literacy Nest is an Accredited IACET Provider!

The Literacy Nest is proud and excited to announce that we are an accredited IACET provider! What is IACET? IACET stands for the International Accreditors of Continuing Education and Training. This organization is responsible for the development of the original Continuing Education Unit (CEU) and the development and maintenance of the ANSI/IACET Standard for Continuing…

6 Tips for Finding Orton-Gillingham Practicum Students
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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? The O-G practicum is similar in many ways to student teaching. It is a way of putting theory into practice with the support and feedback of a mentor. A practicum…

Is it -OUS or -US? How to Teach This Spelling Generalization
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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 word’s morphology and part of speech. One potentially confusing concept is words that end in -ous or -us. Both endings are pronounced /ǝs/. So how do we know when to…

Tips for Using Controlled Text to Build Morphological Awareness
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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 awareness is the ability to recognize the smallest units of meaning in words. These units, or morphemes, may be prefixes, suffixes, base words, or roots. Looking for resources to help…