Building an Understanding of Homophones
Soon after introducing the first vowel teams, the need to discuss homophones rears its head. This can be challenging for struggling readers during Orton-Gillingham lesson…
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10 Impactful Tips For Teaching Vowel Teams
Some of the mountains that our struggling readers must climb are bigger than others. One skill that we must introduce fairly early on, but that…
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7 Tips to Help Your Student Master Short Vowel Sounds: Tricky Short I and Short E!
One of the very first things students need to master happens to be one of the most difficult for many of them: the short vowel…
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The Top 6 Tips For Helping Children Blend Sounds
When a Student Finds It Hard to Blend Sounds Together: 6 Tips for Getting Over the Hump While very often, things go along…
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How To Organize Phonological Awareness Supplies
(Contains an affiliate link.) Phonological Awareness contains a mixture of foundational literacy skills which are critical for reading success. It’s hard to argue…
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Helpful Strategies For Teaching Syllable Division
The ability to decode more complex text requires not only a working knowledge of the phonemes and graphemes of English and the 6 syllable types,…
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12 Fresh Ideas for Your Phonogram Card Drills
After working with a student in Orton-Gillingham lessons for awhile, the routine can become very well known. Guess what? That’s a good thing! But… if…
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6 More Picture Books (Plus some sequels) for Building Phonological Awareness
Not too long ago, I shared 6 of my favorite read aloud books to promote phonological awareness. I promised that there would be…
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The Top 6 Picture Books For Building Phonological Awareness
Building phonological awareness can happen anywhere at any time. We know that beneath the umbrella term, phonological awareness, phonemic awareness is the most important skill…
