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5 Simple Ways to Help Kids With Dyslexia - quick strategies, interventions, and activities to improve reading skills, helpful for teachers and parents #dyslexia #teachingreading #intervention

5 Simple Ways to Help Kids With Dyslexia

Differentiation, Teaching 101, Teaching ReadingBy Hannah BraunSeptember 27, 2018

Strategies, interventions, and activities to improve reading skills in kids with dyslexia, for teachers and parents. This post contains affiliate links. When Reading Skills Aren’t Clicking Lauren* sorted cards with -at endings into one pile and -am endings into another pile. Then she read the -at list: “Bat, cat, sat, …happy?” guessed Lauren. “Let’s use…

5 Ways to Help Spacey Kids Follow Directions

Behavior, Classroom Management, Differentiation, Teaching 101, UncategorizedBy Hannah BraunJanuary 1, 20165 Comments

#1 Have Them Help Demonstrate – Your first instinct might be to choose a model student to help demonstrate a task.  Try picking a student who struggles to follow directions instead.  You may have to give them a lot of guidance as they demonstrate in front of the class but then you know they have…

FREE RtI (response to intervention) forms for use by elementary school teachers

Response to Intervention Forms FREEBIE!

Differentiation, Teaching 101, UncategorizedBy Hannah BraunMarch 2, 2015

Unraveling Response to Intervention I set out to unravel and get to the heart of Response to Intervention (RTI) like I’ve done before with close reading.  I was surprised to read on the RTI Network’s website that, “there is no single, thoroughly researched and widely practiced ‘model’ of the RTI process.”  Of course, that would…

Effective Instruction for Low Reading Groups - for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd grade teachers

Effective Instruction Ideas for Low Groups

Differentiation, Teaching 101, Teaching ReadingBy Hannah BraunJanuary 3, 2015

Ideas for teaching low reading groups for maximum effectiveness   My stomach tightened a little as I pulled out my small group data sheet. I had been working with a group of some of the lower readers pulled from each class in my grade level. I was taking care of the other teachers’ babies and…

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