Teaching Reading

Phonics instruction, especially, lends itself to practice using the Bingo format.  Make a blank Bingo board, and then duplicate it to your heart’s content.  When you want to make a new Bingo game, just grab the blanks and start creating.  I’ve made Bingo boards to review sight words, to practice vowel sounds, go over letter [...]

One way to help children learn phonics attributes and word analysis skills is through word sorts.  These activities will help with reading as well as spelling.  The basic premise is that words can be put into groups based on various phonetic attributes, such as a long or short vowel sound, number of syllables, type of [...]

Here’s an article that I wrote that might help parents or regular education teachers understand a bit more about how to help struggling readers with dyslexia, learning disabilities, or cognitive challenges.
Reading Strategies for Students with Special Needs introduces several alternatives to mainstream reading instruction that you might find helpful, and gives options for teaching in [...]

I’m a firm believer that no individual should be denied reading instruction. It’s a matter of meeting a student where he or she is at presently with literacy skills and then designing an individualized program to move forward from there. One researcher in Australia put it quite succinctly: Literacy is a human rights issue. Everyone [...]