Category: Reading
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Culturally Sustaining and Collaborative Literacy Practices
Are you looking for an instructional strategy that prioritizes oral reading and provides opportunities for culturally sustaining and collaborative literacy learning? Look no further than reader’s theater! What Is Reader’s […]
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Student Perspective: A Helpful Way to Boost Your Students’ Reading Skills
Offering creative reading challenges can help students develop a love of reading. This student-authored post is part of a series that highlights student perspectives around learning and executive function in […]
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Remote Learning – Student Perspective: Dyslexia and Shakespeare
Remote learning presents new challenges and opportunities to everyone involved: teachers, students, and parents. Students with learning differences, including ADHD and dyslexia, are especially susceptible to struggling with the new […]
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The Real-Life Inspiration for Percy Jackson
The Lightning Thief and the subsequent installments in the Percy Jackson and The Olympians series have long been some of our favorite books and movies that portray characters with ADHD […]
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Teacher Resource: Multisensory Techniques for Teaching Reading
Using multisensory instruction to teach reading is a popular topic in education right now. What exactly is multisensory instruction and how do you implement it in the classroom? Let’s start […]
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Classroom Reading Groups: Love Them or Leave Them?
Classroom reading groups, common to most elementary classrooms, can be unpleasant experiences for many students and may not be as effective as we think. What can be done? For me, […]
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Children’s Book Authors with Dyslexia
We’ve previously discussed the importance of helping students with dyslexia find books that feature protagonists who face the same challenges as they do. It can be just as powerful for […]
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You Can’t Have Dyslexia Because You Can Read
Many people — even educators — believe that dyslexia always equals difficulty with reading. However, as we learn more about dyslexia and other learning difficulties, it becomes clear that reading […]
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How to Get Audiobooks?
Every teacher knows that of one of the biggest hurdles students with learning differences encounter is finding ways to read that suit them. So many students I know find reading […]
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What’s the Big Idea? 4 Reading Comprehension Strategies
My student wasn’t happy that she failed the SAT reading section, who would be? When she saw that she scored in the 35th percentile, she said, “But I love to […]