Teaching Sight Words- Using Multisensory Sight Word Activities
I absolutely love the Orton Gillingham approach to sight words, my kindergartners do too ! If you are familiar with the program, you know that it includes crossing hemispheres with arm tapping, finger sliding, finger tracing and writing. This approach to “red words”, those that you have to STOP and think about , uses a multi sensory approach to learn these words that cannot always be decoded easily. In the rest of this post, I will give you some effective and fun ways to get the kids moving and memorizing those sight words.
How To Teach Phonemic Awareness 9 Simple Definitions and Examples
Phonemic awareness comes under the umbrella of phonological awareness. Phonemic awareness is the ability to identify and manipulate the individual sounds in a word. It is very important for students to have this skills in order to do well later with phonics and higher level reading skills. Phonemic awareness teaches us to listen for and hear the individual sounds or phonemes in a word. PA helps students with spelling and writing later on.
Teaching Phonological Awareness Skills – Why Is Teaching Syllables Important and 7 Ways to Practice With Your Students
When readers understand how to break up a word in syllables, it makes it easier to read unknown words. When readers can read or “sound out” chunks , those chunks are easier to remember in our short term memory rather than remembering all the single phonemes in a word. Dividing words into chunks and blending the chunks together, speeds up the process of decoding which creates more fluent readers.
Teaching Phonological Awareness Skills – 7 Ways to Teach Sound and Word Discrimination
I always believed that teaching phonological awareness skills was important, but I do not think I understood how important teaching the individual skills explicitly was to the growth and development of the new reader. …….. In this post, I will give you seven hands on ways to teach sound and word discrimination.
Why Is Teaching Phonological Awareness So Important? Skill #2 – Alliteration
. These skills are so important for all children but especially important for children with dyslexia. Maryanne gives the example of climbing a ladder, you want to start on the bottom rung and climb higher, not skip the lower rungs and try to reach the higher rungs first.
What Is Phonological Awareness and Why Is It Important? Skill 1- Rhyme
When I was about six or seven years old, my parents decided that as a family, we would learn how to ski. Of course, we did not jump on a pair of skis and head for the black diamond trails, instead, we all took lessons on the “bunny trail”. We learned how to get in […]
Is “The Science of Reading” Something New?
The best training, I ever had as a reading teacher, was my Orton Gillingham training. After I completed my master’s degree and became a reading specialist, I still felt like something was missing. I was teaching and tutoring and working with so many students who were still struggling with their reading. I fell in love with the approach because Orton Gillingham was already using direct, explicit phonics instruction.
Is It Important to Teach Pattern Awareness to Young Children? Easy Ways to Teach Students For The Future
I used to think teaching patterns was just a cute and fun activity that a teacher put out for students to complete during center time. Then, I started working with PreK and Kindergarten and realized just how important teaching patterns was for young students.
Fun and Easy Ways to Teach Important Skills During the Clothes Study for Preschool
As a new preschool teacher, I wanted to find fun and easy ways to teach important math, literacy and fine motor skills as we were going through the Clothes Study for Preschool. I found that my students needed help specifically with sorting, vocabulary, pre-writing and fine motor skills and pattern awareness.
What Are The Benefits of Word Sorts ?
When I taught second grade, word sorts were my favorite way of giving my students a hands on, multi-sensory way to practice letter recognition, spelling patterns and word families. Now, I am teaching Kindergarten and I am using them again. In moving schools, I lost my “big book of word sorts” , so now I […]