by Karina Richland | Jan 3, 2022 | Activities and Games, Multisensory, Multisensory Teaching, Phonological Awareness
Phonemic awareness is an important pre-reading skill and the key to learning how to read. Parents and teachers can make a big difference in helping children become readers by practicing phonemic awareness at home and in the classroom. Here is a fun beginning and...
by Karina Richland | Nov 2, 2021 | Activities and Games, Multisensory, Multisensory Teaching, Reading
This CVC word booklet activity is so easy to make and will give your students a nice opportunity to practice reading beginning words with short vowels. Here are the instructions how to make this CVC word booklet activity as well as give you a list of vowel families...
by Karina Richland | Oct 31, 2021 | Activities and Games, Multisensory, Multisensory Teaching, Orton-Gillingham, Reading, Spelling
In Orton-Gillingham or Structured Literacy lessons, students are required to do a lot of multisensory activities. This includes tracing while saying the sounds of the letters on different surfaces. Sound tracing is used to practice and reinforce sounds and spelling...
by Karina Richland | Oct 15, 2021 | Activities and Games, Multisensory, Multisensory Teaching, Reading, Spelling
Once your student is very comfortable reading consonant-vowel-consonant words (cat, bit, fed, lug, etc.), it is time to introduce your student to initial blends. Initial blends are the 2 consonant letters at the beginning of a word that each make their own sound. Some...
by Karina Richland | Sep 17, 2021 | Activities and Games, Multisensory, Multisensory Teaching, Reading, Spelling
Once your student has learned initial blends in words (flag, brim, snip, drop), it is time to introduce your student to final blends. Final Blends are the 2 consonant letters at the end of a word that each make their own sound. Some examples of final blends are lamp,...
by Karina Richland | Jun 6, 2021 | Activities and Games, Homeschool, Homeschooling, Language & Reading, Multisensory, Multisensory Teaching, Reading, Student Motivation, Summer Programs
Summer is a great time for kids to read and learn about new things. Research shows us that reading just 20 minutes each day can greatly increase your child’s reading skills, and those reading less are at risk of falling behind their peers. Sometimes it takes a...
