Before You Sign Up for Another Professional Development Opportunity, Read This
At the time I’m writing this, my kids are at soccer camp, and I’m sitting at the kitchen table trying to decide what to do…
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Top Time Management Tools for Students
Often, the students we work with as tutors struggle with time management. Some may not have a good sense of time, and some struggle with…
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Tips for b and d Reversals
Letter reversals are very common for early readers and writers. This is particularly true for b and d reversals. Letters are one of the very…
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5 Icebreakers for a New School Year
Children with dyslexia often enter the intervention setting with very mixed feelings. Whether in a small group or one-on-one, it is crucial to build a…
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Top 5 Reasons You Should Attend the Building Readers for Life Summer Conference
When the rhythm of the school year gives way to the different pace of summer, a teacher’s thoughts often turn to professional development. When I…
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5 Ways Learning Profiles Can Inform Instruction
A learning profile is a holistic summary of a student’s strengths and needs. To be truly valuable, a learning profile is going to be more…
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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…
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Is It Time to Shake Up Your Visual Card Drill?
Is it time to breathe new life into the visual card drill portion of your Orton-Gillingham or structured literacy lessons? After your students become familiar…
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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…
