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Helping your child to read: phonics | Oxford Owl We use cookies to enhance your experience on our website. By clicking 'continue' or by continuing to use our website, you are agreeing to our use of cookies. You can change your cookie settings at any time. We use cookies to enhance your experience on our website. This is just a standard text page example. Elmbrook turns page with new literacy curriculum Laurel Leahy wants to stretch the reading stamina of her kindergartners at Dixon Elementary School. Every week she increases the length of independent reading. She suggests they go for 20 minutes today. The kids groan. "What's wrong with 20 minutes?" Leahy replied. Leahy's current class is reading like she's never seen a class read in her 20 years of teaching at Dixon. "Never before in all my years at Elmbrook have I felt the same feeling of real competence of how I'm supposed to teach reading. "But this year I have the guidance of the collective wisdom of our reading specialists to help me, with what I've pieced together myself over my years of experience." Since August, a team of elementary educators throughout the district have been working on the development of a comprehensive K-5 literacy framework. A new chapter It impressed School Board member Glen Allgaier so much that he suggested the district look into publishing the plan. Early results

50 Useful Apps For Students With Reading Disabilities Whether you’re the parent of a child with a reading disability or an educator that works with learning disabled students on a daily basis, you’re undoubtedly always looking for new tools to help these bright young kids meet their potential and work through their disability. While there are numerous technologies out there that can help, perhaps one of the richest is the iPad, which offers dozens of applications designed to meet the needs of learning disabled kids and beginning readers alike. Here, we highlight just a few of the amazing apps out there that can help students with a reading disability improve their skills not only in reading, writing, and spelling, but also get a boost in confidence and learn to see school as a fun, engaging activity, not a struggle. Helpful Tools These tools are useful for both educators and students with reading disabilities alike, aiding in everything from looking up a correct spelling to reading text out loud. Speak It! Fundamentals Reading Writing Spelling

Primary Dyslexia Teaching Resources for Dyslexic Children - Printables for use with dyslexic children Individual Alphabet Letters First 100 High-Frequency Words Handwriting and Pencil Control Confusing Letters and Numbers Cracking the Code: 9 Hands-On Strategies for Improving Decoding Skills - WeAreTeachers Even when students can decode words, that doesn’t always mean they understand the text on the page. In fact, as students get older, many may still not have the fluency and the instant recall they need to make progress and—more importantly—enjoy reading. When we can help kids add a visual component to their learning, we can help kids become more fluent readers. Here are nine classroom activities that can help struggling readers improve their decoding skills, use more imagery and become stronger readers. 1. Hide-and-Seek Words What it teaches: Letter recognition, letter sounds and sound blending How to do it: Kids love this activity that turns a guessing game into a reading game. To use this game with kids who are working on sounding out words, you can take things up a level. 2. Word patterns, spelling patterns Any time you can work an image into reading instruction, your student has a better chance of retaining information. Source: Common to the Core 3. Blending and segmenting words 4. 5. 6. 7.