by Karina Richland | Sep 20, 2022 | Multisensory, Multisensory Teaching, Reading, Reading Skills
After your student has mastered the alphabetic principle, the next step in learning to read is beginning blending. This means pushing all of the sounds together in a word to create the whole word without pausing. For example, reading the word ‘bat’ as /bbaatt/ instead...
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,...