Top Tips for Using the Word List Builder Community Feature
Teachers are always on the hunt for new resources and generously share with colleagues. In the Literacy Nest Desktop App Word List Builder, there are…
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Meaningful Review in Orton-Gillingham Lessons
The very best practitioners make decisions for individual students regarding pacing, repetition, mastery, and review. Your students need meaningful time to review what you have…
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The Value of Repeated Practice for Students with Dyslexia
For many years, those of us who work with striving readers and writers have known that certain strategies or techniques, like repeated practice, are effective,…
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How To Keep Your Orton-Gillingham Lessons Multisensory When Tutoring Online
Multisensory teaching is a key element of instruction for students with dyslexia. Orton Gillingham has become synonymous with multisensory instruction, but let’s review what multisensory…
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Is it OI or OY? How to Teach This Spelling Generalization
When you’re thinking about spelling a word with OI or OY, location is everything. In some ways, the /oy/ sound is one of the more…
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Spelling Choices for Long O: Tips for Teaching this Spelling Generalization
Some spelling considerations are less about clear rules to follow than frequency and expectations. Such is the case for spelling the long o sound. O-e…
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Is it OU or OW? Tips for Teaching This Two-Part Spelling Generalization
Not all spelling generalizations are as neat and tidy as you might like them to be. Just as the spelling generalizations for the floss rule,…
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Y as a Vowel: Multisensory Spelling Strategies
As part of our spelling generalization blog series, this next post is going to give you the low down on Y as a vowel. Most…
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Is it C or K? How to Teach This Spelling Generalization
Does it start with c or k? A simple spelling generalization that students find very empowering regards the spelling of the initial /k/ sound or…
