Every few years, it seems to happen. Reading scores are not where they should be. Too many students are below benchmark. Intervention groups are growing. Teachers are frustrated. Parents are…
Short Vowel Signals That Make Spelling Click Have you ever watched a student miss a signal they were never explicitly taught? In Orton-Gillingham, we don’t leave spelling patterns up to…
The Missing Piece for Struggling Readers: Why Morphology Matters If you’ve ever watched a child sound out “unhappiness” letter by letter, or worse, guess at the whole word and move…
Reading Mistake #30: Teaching Every Student the Same Way Over the past 30 days, we’ve explored some of the most common reading mistakes that can unintentionally slow student progress. We’ve…
#29 Reading Mistake: Looking for One Magic Strategy After 28 days of exploring the most common reading mistakes, you may have noticed something. None of these topics stand alone. We’ve…
#28 Reading Mistake: Teaching Rare Phonics Patterns Too Early A systematic phonics scope and sequence is much more than a checklist of concepts to teach. The order in which phonics…
#27 Reading Mistake: Letting Assessments Determine What You Teach Assessments are an essential part of effective reading instruction. They help you measure student learning and can provide valuable information to…
#26 Reading Mistake: Teaching Exceptions Before Students Understand the Rule One of the biggest advantages of the English language is that it is far more predictable than many people realize.…
#25 Reading Mistake: Moving On Before Mastery Slowing down often helps students move faster. One of the most common reading mistakes I see is moving students to the next skill…
#24 Reading Mistake: Correcting Errors Instead of Analyzing Them for Instruction One of the biggest shifts teachers can make is learning to see student errors as valuable information rather than…
#23 Reading Mistake: Doing All the Thinking for the Student One of the greatest gifts we can give students is the ability to solve reading problems on their own. Yet…
#22 Reading Mistake: Using Dictation As A Spelling Test When you hear the word dictation, what comes to mind? For many educators, it sounds like a spelling test. The teacher…
