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Incremental Rehearsal – When Your Student Can’t Remember Letter Sounds
Incremental Rehearsal is an evidence-based instructional strategy to help students who struggle to remember facts such as letter sounds and High Frequency Words.
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Mnemonic Alphabet – Classroom Implementation Lunch & Learn
I recently had the opportunity to share on the topic of Classroom Implementation of Mnemonic Letters during a virtual lunch & learn for our district, SD36. Below you…
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Scaffold and Accelerate Letter Sound Learning with Mnemonic Letters
WHY? Numerous studies have shown that students learn letter sounds faster and have better recall when using mnemonic letters. Mnemonic letters are simply those which have an embedded…
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Increasing Accuracy and Fluency with Repeated Reading
WHY? One way students can become more accurate and fluent readers is by having opportunities to reread a passage. S. Jay Samuels (1979)1, was one of the first…
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Strategic Partners for Independent Centers
WHY? “A center is independent; it is not instructional. What you’re able to do at a center is typically practice concepts that you’ve already learned. So you would…
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Blocked Practice with Roll & Read
WHY? In order to become accurate with reading (or writing) a new phonics concept, students need many opportunities to practice! Once students become fairly accurate (about 90%), they…
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Anne Hickling
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I’m passionate about early literacy and continually looking to improve my practice by applying research to the classroom. Read more…
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