Artificial intelligence is definitely becoming part of everyday life in schools. We are seeing teachers use AI to brainstorm lesson plans, generate word lists, draft…
Back-to-school season certainly has a way of making everything feel urgent. You want to feel prepared. You want your lesson routines ready, review activities on…
When you teach structured literacy, the word list matters. It is not just a random group of words pulled together to fill time. A strong…
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…
Why teachers need systems, not more random resources If you know even the slightest bit about structured literacy teaching, you know that so much of…
There is a moment that many Orton Gillingham teachers eventually reach. It usually does not happen at the beginning. At first, there is excitement. Teachers…
Every year around this time, the same question comes up: how do we prevent the “summer slide”? But for struggling readers, especially students with dyslexia,…
There is a moment many of us have seen before. A student comes to a longer word in a connected text, pauses, stares at it,…
If your students can decode big words but still misspell them, assimilated prefixes might be the missing piece. These are prefixes that change their spelling…
