I’ll keep adding to this stockpile of resources. Check back for updates!
Copy and cut out these bookmarks for students to use in their independent reading. Teach and model use of each strategy until they can use them independently!
Playing with repeated initial sounds is a great way to build phonological awareness (which should continue to be done explicitly into the primary grades!). Here are some silly tongue teasers (with images) for each letter of the alphabet.
This toolkit can be printed, cut, and bound into a little booklet. It was made for a secondary audience, but the strategies are applicable at every level! It has tips on non-contingent reinforcement, relationship building, status building, pre-empting problems and power struggles, and socio-emotional learning.
This chart, based primarily on Essentials of Assessing, Preventing, and Overcoming Reading Difficulties is a high level overview of the various skills that are required to learn to read and how they interact, according to recent science.
This chart, based on Reading for Understanding (3e), is an overview of the reading process at the secondary level for you and your students.
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