Summer is rapidly approaching, and chances are you are just as ready for a break from the school year as your children! Summer is a wonderful time to rest, travel, and recharge. However, it does not have to be a time in which your child loses ground in their academic skills. Prioritizing daily reading during the summer is essential to maintaining your child's reading success all year long. Just a few minutes of reading each day can go a long way! While this is not an exclusi

Do you ever stumble upon something that completely thrills your students AND accelerates their learning? That is exactly what happened in the situation I am sharing with you today! Those of you who follow me on social media may have already viewed the reel I shared concerning this. Today's post is for my blog friends, though! During this particular exercise, we began with a familiar strategy for helping students identify and read new skills within a text: highlighting the ta

Today, I want to share an easy little exercise that I have implemented to help address letter formation and some letter reversals. I work with so many students who struggle with correct letter formation. Many begin their letters from the bottom and push up, or they write strokes in a right-to-left motion. I consistently reinforce "top, down," and "left, right" during writing exercises. However, I have also begun using the sequence c-a-d-g in a variety of multi-sensory conte

Did you know that simply having students write on vertical surface, such as a white board or wall poster, can offer tremendous benefits? I often implement this simple alteration into my daily sessions with students when I ask them to write to spell dictated sounds or words. Read below to learn about the variety of ways this is beneficial to their development! Vertical writing... Can help increase body awareness. Can improve visual tracking and eye convergence skills. Can help