by Karina Richland | Jul 16, 2018 | Orton-Gillingham
I work with a big group of kinesthetic learners. These kids need to move in order to learn best. On today’s post I am going to share with you a really fun movement game that will give your kids a chance to use their entire body while learning. Here is how you play... 
by Karina Richland | Jul 6, 2018 | Reading, Spelling
Breaking up words into syllables or chunks is an important part of learning to read. Syllabication helps children learn to read and spell difficult words. If your child gets stuck on a difficult word, he or she can use the syllabication rules to figure it out. On... 
by Karina Richland | Jun 26, 2018 | Reading, Speech
Pulling apart words into different sounds is what we call sound segmentation. For example the word bat has three sounds – /b/, /a/, /t/. The word ship also has three sounds – /sh/, /i/, /p/. The awareness of the separate sounds in a word is what we... 
by Karina Richland | Jun 21, 2018 | Reading
This Word Family Booklet is the easiest activity to make and gives those kiddos a nice opportunity to practice reading three letter words. On today’s post I am going to give you the instructions how to make these great little word family booklets as well as give you... 
by Karina Richland | Jun 18, 2018 | Reading, Speech
Rhyming is an important first step in the reading development for children. When a child learns to rhyme, they learn to focus on how language works. They also begin to notice all the individual sounds within each word. If your child knows that jig and pig rhyme,...