We want to remind you about some of the Red Word steps you’ll never want to leave out! Phonemic Awareness: Incorporate a phonemic awareness warm-up before introducing your new Red Word. This will help your students identify what makes the
One of our participants’ favorite strategies is our Red Word Strategy! This is a strategy that everyone is able to see working in their classroom, no matter the age or population, which may explain why it’s usually the first strategy
There are several ways you may differentiate for sentence dictation to meet the needs of every student as they work toward mastery Differentiated visual cues for sentence dictation: Word lines for green & red words Phonetic words – Provide a
Let’s talk about sentence dictation! It’s important that students are transferring knowledge from writing words in isolation to writing words in sentences. How often have you seen children spell a word correctly on a spelling test and then misspell it
If students are struggling with writing words during word dictation. Try starting with a phonemic awareness warm-up. Use tokens and sound boxes. (T) How many sounds do you hear in cat? (3) (T) What are they? (/k/ /a/ /t/) (T&S)
You learned a lot of valuable information in your IMSE training. Once we get back to the classroom, we tend to forget some of that information because our brains were permeated with new knowledge! Here’s a quick recap of dictating
One of the best aspects of IMSE’s Orton-Gillingham is that it gives teachers a little freedom in their lesson plans. Although there is a routine to follow, it’s not so rigid that you can’t personalize it. There is flexibility in
Many teachers and parents express concerns about students making reversals, especially regarding letters b, d, p, q. Is this normal? According to normal development, it is very common for children learning to write, even up to age 7. Some researchers
Common Core has taken cursive handwriting out of the standards. However many states have realized the benefits of cursive handwriting and have brought it back. Cursive can benefit students in ways you may not have realized! Studies suggest that students
When teaching m-wh in IMSE’s sequence, letter formation is an important part of the lesson plan. After wh, you can teach letter formation to students who continue to struggle. Teaching print is an abstract skill. Letters typically start in “space”
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