How To Use Decodable Readers
You may have seen the recommendation to use decodable readers or decodable text with your students, especially early on in their learning. Let’s take a…
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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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Metacognition and Comprehension Strategies : Critical for Struggling Readers
As teachers and tutors, you know that we must go beyond helping our students learn to decode and read fluently. Comprehension is the end…
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The Top 5 Reasons You Should Use Decodable Text With Your Students
One thing that I find myself frequently explaining to parents, students, and other teachers is the rationale for using decodable texts. Students are accustomed to…
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10 Tips for Using Poetry with Challenged Readers
When someone says poetry, my immediate image is classical poetry forms such as sonnets. But I also have fond memories of reading Shel Silverstein poems…
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The Best Decodable Books and Decodable Passage Resources
If there is one thing Orton-Gillingham teachers can never have enough of, it is decodable text. Finding books that are highly decodable, engaging for our…
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Explicit Instruction of Comprehension Strategies for Struggling Readers
There are a variety of reasons why students struggle to develop reading and writing skills, and many of these students need explicit instruction in foundational…
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Effective Decoding Strategies To Improve Reading
Many teachers are familiar with decoding strategies that may emphasize the use of picture clues, meaning, and self-monitoring. Sometimes these decoding activities are even given…
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Online Supplemental Resources To Support The Big Five In The National Reading Panel
Please welcome, Lorna Wooldridge as my guest blogger! In a recent blog I wrote for the Orton-Gillingham Online Academy (OGOA) on “The National…
