All students through age 7, and struggling readers How to Apply It! 1) Play rhyming games with your child to develop important early reading skills. 1) The name game ("Katie b-atie, bo b-atie, Banana fana fo-fatie...") helps with sound discrimination and ma... View More
If your middle or high school student is struggling with reading fluency Teach It! Objective: Provide older students having difficulty with reading fluency targeted instruction in a small group setting with a specialist, with focus on phoneme groups, word fa... View More
If your student's reading fluency is below grade level Teach It! 1)Objective: Use systematic phonics instruction for students who are behind grade level with decoding. 2)Teacher Takeaways: a) Many schools use whole-language programs to teach reading. Howeve... View More
If your student needs to strengthen oral reading fluency, which is often practiced less than silent reading fluency Teach It! 1)Objective: Students at all reading levels will improve oral reading fluency and increase reading confidence with choral reading -... View More
If your elementary student struggles or just skips unfamiliar words while reading independently Teach It! 1)Objective: Students will use context clues, in addition to phonics strategies, when figuring out unfamiliar words in reading. 2)Instruction and Pract... View More
If your student is struggling with reading fluency or efficient decoding Teach It! 1)Objective: Students will learn and apply phonics-based decoding strategies when they encounter unfamiliar words in reading. 2)Instruction and Practice: Guide students to us... View More
Particularly good for students whose verbal reasoning skills are stronger than memory Instruction and Practice 1)Objective: Students will build automaticity with common prefixes and suffixes to help improve reading efficiency, as well as expand their vocabul... View More
If your student has weaker abstract reasoning Teach It! 1)Objective: Students will improve long-term reading and mathematics skills when they are explicitly taught patterning skills in elementary school. 2)Teacher Takeaways: a) Patterning skills enable stud... View More