The Value of Repeated Practice for Students with Dyslexia
For many years, those of us who work with striving readers and writers have known that certain strategies or techniques, like repeated practice, are effective,…
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Dysgraphia and Developing Readers
As dyslexia teachers or parents, you understand the struggle many children have surrounding reading. The struggles surrounding writing problems may or may not build on…
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Fresh Ideas for Using Decodable Sentences
Decodable text is written in such a way that it contains very few if any unknown concepts. It uses known syllable patterns, phonemes, and learned…
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Tips for Teaching Nonsense Words
What are nonsense words? Nonsense words are words that follow the patterns and rules of English, but are not actual words. Just like real words,…
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Simple Outdoor Literacy Activities to Boost Skills Over the Summer
I still get a bit of the thrill of anticipation that I did as a child looking forward to summer vacation. However, this break from…
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What Does Explicit, Systematic, and Sequential Teaching Look Like?
I’m digging into specific principles of the Orton-Gillingham approach. Three words are key to describing some of the principles that define Orton-Gillingham. Instruction is explicit,…
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Voiced and Voiceless Sounds in The English Language
Have you ever noticed students having difficulty not only with visually similar letters such as b and d, but also having difficulty with letter sounds…
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Difficulties Evolve into Doors: The HOPE for students with Dyscalculia
You may come here for literacy tips, but today we are talking about math, so put your hats on! Adrianne Meldrum at Made For Math…
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What’s So Important About the Alphabetic Principle?
What is the alphabetic principle? To start, let’s come to a common understanding of what we mean by the alphabetic principle. This is not just…
