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…
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7 Fluency Tips for Little Words
One of the most common patterns I see with students with dyslexia is difficulty with little words. They may get some of the more challenging…
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Understanding Fatigue from Dyslexia
Fatigue from dyslexia is a very real concern. Imagine the struggles of being someone who has dyslexia during just one day in the classroom. From…
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5 Ways the KPS Help Structured Literacy Educators
The KPS or Knowledge and Practice Standards for Teachers of Reading were developed by the International Dyslexia Association in 2010 and revised in 2018. They…
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Levels of Certification Through The Center for Effective Reading Instruction (CERI)
There are many organizations that offer Orton Gillingham training. In addition, there are trainings in various Orton Gillingham-based programs. It can be difficult for professionals…
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Tips for Teaching -S and -ES Plurals
One of the very first suffixes that I teach students is the suffix -s. This suffix makes a word plural. Teaching -s and -es builds…
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Voiced and Unvoiced S: 7 Teaching Tips!
It is important to teach the voiced sound of S fairly early in the instructional sequence. Students will need the voiced S to add the…
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7 Tips For Helping Students Recognize Patterns In Words
There are several reasons why recognizing patterns in words is difficult for our students with dyslexia. Dyslexia often causes difficulty linking the phonemic analysis with…
