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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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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What’s In My Orton-Gillingham Binder?
Whenever my students meet with me for an Orton-Gillingham lesson, they have a few supplies handy, like their Orton-Gillingham binder. I, of course, come towing my…
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When You’re Stuck Trying To Find Appropriate Orton-Gillingham Reading Passages…
I’m here to talk about finding reading passages for your Orton-Gillingham lessons or reading intervention groups. It’s one we all grapple with, am I right?…
