Easter is only a couple of weeks away! Around this time you can find plastic eggs a-plenty! And right after Easter, you can grab them discounted at many stores. And with these eggs, egg-straordinary activities can be created for your […]
5 Simple Strategies for B/D Letter Reversal
Do you have students that struggle with telling the difference between lowercase b and lowercase d? You are not alone! I have seen this from preschool all the way up to 5th grade. As a reading interventionist, this is a […]
How to Get Your Students Excited About Reading!
March is right around the corner, which means we’ll be celebrating March is Reading Month! However, it’s important to not only promote reading during the month of March, but all year long. In fact, I felt this an important topic […]
How Teaching Multilingual Learners to Read is Different
Hispanic Heritage Month started Sept. 15 and goes until Oct. 15. During this time of celebrating the Hispanic culture, I thought it a great time to address how teaching our multilingual learners to read is different than teaching our native […]
A Step-By-Step Guide to Interpreting Test Results to Form Small Groups
After only a few days of school, we are already having students complete beginning of the year benchmark assessents. These assessments are important for getting the baseline for each student for the year, so we can see their growth throughout. […]
Essential Reading Intervention Materials All Teachers Need
It’s back-to-school time! Whether you just went back this week, like me, or you’ve been back, or are going back soon, it is upon us. I am so happy to be back as a reading interventionist for a third year! […]
LETRS Training: Final Update!
Well, I did it! I successfully completed LETRS training this past week. I had finished the last live Zoom session last month, but still had a unit to go on the online platform along with the final assessment. It really […]
10 Best Short Videos for Teaching Phonics Rules
We want students to retain what we are teaching them. A great way to do this is by using videos! And what’s better than that, is a video with music! Typically, I play a video at the beginning or the […]
The Most Important Thing for Increasing Reading Fluency
I hope everyone got the opportunity to get some much needed R&R over Spring Break! If your Spring Break just started, lucky you! Well, I am back to work tomorrow and looking forward to it for the most part. I […]