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Time to create treasure hunts and literacy riddles Time to create treasure hunts and literacy riddles for our March holiday…glad the sun is out to hide things in the green of the yard. Executive function skills will be called into action to earn their sweet treats. 🍀😁🍀
💘💝💘 Valentine sessions prep in progress… why yes, I do tend to overcomplicate it…😆😍 But a dose of literacy is sweetened by puzzles & games & prizes. It’s fun to have a side of celebration with our direct instruction time.  Options for a range of levels - but always with vowel patterns, syllables, and rhymes for reading and writing skill building. Served with 💕.
Sending L❤️VE to all for Valentine’s!
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Holiday Fun with “Self Serve Santa”. Students Holiday Fun with “Self Serve Santa”. 
Students complete literacy tasks -solving puzzles & riddles, following directions, spelling with vowel patterns, and suffixes to check their list and fill a Santa sack with goodies. 
🤶 Ho ho ho! And happy literacy learning to all!
👻 My wonderful students wrote plans with instru 👻 My wonderful students wrote plans with instructions then created their own custom ghosts. These are a few samples of outcomes that were donated to my front yard’s ✨Glowing Ghost Party.✨

Happy Halloween all! 🎃

#learningframeworks #executivefunctioninskills #educationaltherapy #ceemk #dysgraphia #dyslexicdesign #adhdlearners
🍁🧡 🍁 It's the moment to pull out one of m 🍁🧡 🍁
It's the moment to pull out one of my favorite once-a-year books - "Five Little Pumpkins"! So much fun Word Play in this book! 

If there is one word my students all can spell by the end of October - it's "pumpkin"! 
(If there's two - 2nd is "chocolate"...)

Using this gem of a book to teach or review: 
👉 vowel-consonant-silent e vowel pattern
👉 rhyming! find the pairs, and who is left out?
👉 dividing two-syllable words - "pump," "get," "lit" becomes pumpkins, getting & little with the OG Rabbit Rule divide
👉 can throw in a chat about suffixes (-ing & -ed) and consonant-l-e vowel pattern (little) too, if learners ready for it...
👉 crafty kiddos have made pumpkins on a gate with popsicle sticks...also fun
👉 then READ and enjoy!

My littles learn from it, mediums review it, and my bigs get nostalgic - so special to find books that feel like traditions.

Happy Pumpkin Month!🧡

"Five Little Pumpkins" by Dan Yaccarino
@danyaccarino

#educationaltherapy #fivelittlepumpkins #pumpkins #literacy #learningframeworks #wordplayletterlove #dyslexia #teachreading #octoberlearning #ortongillingam #structuredliteracy #gamifyliteracy
Noticed how true this Zen phrase is - for instruct Noticed how true this Zen phrase is - for instruction and for life.

Always trying to keep my mindful tools in mind. 😌

Have a beautiful day!
👑 Connecting word study to current events for p 👑 Connecting word study to current events for practice with qu & ee today.
 
🔅Word sort to discover the target sounds 

💠Word reading with same target patterns

⚜️Word writing

📯Sentence writing.
Add a picture to represent the meaning.

🗝Leveling it up and down with the emphasized words. May add “royal,”
“crown”, and suffixes for my biggers…

🤎This kiddo likes to make up own nonsense words. 

Supplies: sticky notes, pens, paper sleeves, + your structured literacy mind 😁

#queen #literacy #dyslexia #educationaltherapist #learningframeworks #structuredliteracy #qu #ee
💻Are you a fast typer? It helps a lot! I want t 💻Are you a fast typer? It helps a lot! I want this for my students too... 

✍ I don't teach typing - I try to cover handwriting with them. My hope is that at school or at home - they will the 10-finger typing training they need.

📝 Just dropping a note in here for any parents, instructors, or practitioners - our students need to learn to type with 10 fingers, and be able to type fast! My students have fast brains, and if their fingers can find a vehicle to keep up - it helps a lot! Voice typing is great, but it does not replace 10-finger typing. 

🙌Do you notice I keep saying "10-finger typing"? I do! That's because my video gamers are finding workarounds, and so practicing bad habits. 

🛎Let's help make sure our next generation can type properly! Link to my blog post in my bio for more info and resources.
✨Celebrating 20+ years with these old friends! L ✨Celebrating 20+ years with these old friends! Launched me into Slingerland, Orton Gillingham, structured literacy, and science of reading - with a big dose of handwriting on the side!
📚 ✏️ ✍🏻 📒 📓 
Finally! Something that worked reliably to help out the struggling readers I was seeing in my work.
💎 💎 💎 
Lots of gems in that 50 pound thick binder…Pulled out one that makes a case for human spelling recognition even in a world of spell check!

Thanks to my teacher and mentor the legendary Nancy Cushen White and her crackerjack dedicated team of Slingerland-ites! 
Especially Ms Elinor.

#thatsabigbinder 
#slingerland #structuredliteracy #educationaltherapist #dyslexia #ortongillingham #nancycushenwhite #teachspelling #rudginsky #ceemk #learningframeworks
🌼🌝🌼 Love the daily words of wisdom that a 🌼🌝🌼
Love the daily words of wisdom that arrive in my inbox from “Inspired Quotes”.

www.inspiringquotes.com/inspiration/

☀️Today’s words are richer still knowing that they’re from the journal 📒 of a concentration camp survivor, and later author, Etty Hillesum. 💛🖤💛

💡In addition to the opportunity for a rich discussion of history, biography, philosophy, and so on, there are advantages to offering this type of presentation for dyslexic readers:
🔸 Reading a small quantity of text is more welcoming and manageable;
🔸 The website has a play button so that the content can be read aloud.
🔸Sense of success and motivation to launch into content of the day’s instruction;
🔸 Great session starter for individual meetings or a class opener for the general classroom as a “do now” during transition.
🌟⭐️🌟

🌼 Wishing all inspiration in your days. 🏵

#educationaltherapy #educationaltherapist #learningframeworks #ceemk #dyslexia #dyslexicreaders #ettyhellesum
Welcome Back to School! 🎒 ✏️ 🌧 In hono Welcome Back to School! 🎒 ✏️ 

🌧 In honor of an unusual August rain today here …
 💦 And given the mega drought and changing water patterns - who is “thirsty” for some water themed learning? 😉😆 

☔️ 💧 CA Dept of Water Resources offers an array of educational materials - check them out on their web site!

Water-related words like “drought”, “flood”, “aqueduct”, and “conserve” will fit well into literacy instruction as a foundation for larger topics. 
I will use them as a theme for structured literacy with layers of language. 
Latin? Anglo Saxon? Or Greek?👍

🌎 Building knowledge on scientific investigation and empowering individual action is worth a go and can make for connected learning experiences. 🌊 

Best wishes to all parents, teachers, and specialists for a productive & learning-rich school year. 

@savewatercalifornia @cadepartmentofwaterresources 

#waterlearn #drought2022 #megadrought #cadeptwaterresources #goteachers! #learnaboutyourcommunity #educationaltherapy #structuredliteracy #layersoflanguage #learningframeworks
June books: Feel the Pride! 🏳️‍🌈 These June books:
Feel the Pride! 🏳️‍🌈

These books may appeal to different ages and interests — Both are beautiful with rich language and illustrations.

Pride Month offers an opportunity to feature these stories. 

One with rhyme and celebration:
On This Day in June
By Gayle Pitman
Illustrated by Kristyna Litten

@pitman_g 
@kristynalitten 

One with history and a message of courage:
Stitch by Stitch 
by Rob Sanders. Illustrated by Jamie Christoph

@robsanderswrites 

Both from @maginationpress 

#dyslexiakids #pridelit #childrensbooks #educationaltherapy #ceemk #prideforkids #aidsmemorialquilt #structuredliteracy #booksforpridemonth #learningframeworks #learningframeworksreaders #literacy
☀️📒💛☀️ It’s that time of year agai ☀️📒💛☀️
It’s that time of year again… when I send off my sweet students 🥹
Off & into summer, laden with a goody bag that I hope might keep them reading and writing on trips and between camps. 
🏕 ✈️ 🛝

Will they inspire these curious and bright learners who work extra hard to read & write during their school break? Maybe. 😁 Always worth a try!
✍🏻 📕 ✍🏻 
This year 5th grade grads receive custom bookmarks - that hopefully might mark a spot in a good book. 🔖 

And all kiddos receive a notebook 📒 to match their interest or personality. 🤞 

Frixion erasable pens and invisible ink detective pens.
🖊 ✍🏻 ✏️ 
Plus stickers, gum & snacks to survive of course.

Mainly I hope they will enjoy, play, and be well. 

Happy end of school to learners and instructors! You deserve a break. 
🌊 🏖 🌊 

#learningframeworks #dyslexiakids #dyslexia #ceemk #hellosummer #schoolsoutforsummer #literacy #kidssummerjournal #summerreadingkids #structuredliteracy
Much to learn and practice with bunnies🐰 and ch Much to learn and practice with bunnies🐰 and chicks 🐥 offering carrots 🥕 to motivate structured literacy practice.

PS this is my 1st reel… trying to learn like my learners…!

#structuredliteracy #educationaltherapy #dyslexia #makelearningmemorable #learningframeworks #ceemk #aprillearning #dyslexia #adhd #ortongillingham
Funny 🐰 bunny. Learning new skills with Procre Funny 🐰 bunny.

Learning new skills with Procreate. (I have a lot to learn…!)

Why?
- To try things that interest my students; Procreate is a great art program for my learners
- To develop my art skills to create mini books for my learners
- For fun! 

This is a draw-along with @beejaydel - thank you!

@ceemk_words_illustrations 

#lifelonglearning #literacy #procreate #ceemket #ceemk #educationaltherapy #educationaltherapist #unpublished #dyslexia
📖 &🧋 Ok. Here we go… new book and new bob 📖 &🧋 
Ok. Here we go… new book and new boba for month of April!

Many great themes in April but one thing all my students love: animals and nature - well, guess that’s 2 things … but it’s for one of my monthly themes - The Earth (Earth Day and National Wildlife Week).

👉The monthly themes provide rich, memorable content to keep my kids curious while I inject that structured literacy goodness.

Earth offers a good opportunity to talk about sounds of “ea” - with this team, we got:

👂🏻 Ea as in eat and ear (long sound and 1st choice when don’t know)

👥 ea with a short (!) sound as in head — not as common - short is usually a closed syllable so it’s a fun exception that’s common enough that it’s worth mentioning…

And the vowel team/r-controlled mashup:
🌎 ‘ear’ as in earth
🐻’ear’ as in Bear

Let the word sorting fun begin!

Did I miss any other ea gems that are worth it? (Not doing the long a like great by choice…)

{Note: this mixup of EA team sounds is for learners who are at a level that they’re ready to hold different choices for decoding and spelling.}

📕 The book: offers great chapter subjects, mini segments that can interest all types of learners with bios, fun facts, interactive activities, and inspiring make-change-in-the-world suggestions. And beautiful design and illustration.
A book gem 💎 that has already captured the interest of my multi-age students.

“The Wide World Handbook: Creatures”

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🧋 And I boldly tried a new Boba… That comes with a burnt top and a tiny shovel… crème brûlée. 
Does it sound good to you? Or..not?
I’d say it was a treat.

Happy April!

@andrea.debbink 
@asiaorlando_ 
@quirkbooks 

#educationaltherapy #educationaltherapist #structuredliteracy #literacy #Dyslexia
#adhdreaders #learningframeworks #ortongillingham #childrensbooks #earthdaylearning #thewideworldhandbook #bookandboba
☀️So much nature to celebrate with literacy le ☀️So much nature to celebrate with literacy learning!
 
🌻First day of Spring (3/20): Welded sounds like “ing” and “ink”
🌳 International Forest Day (3/21): Latin and Greek words with a “syllable stack”
💦 World Water Day (3/22): Water cycle vocabulary with a syllable jumble

🌟Super fun with my super learners doing structured literacy and word analysis embedded in rich content and interactive tasks…! 😅

#learningframeworks 
#structuredliteracy 
#dylexia #adhd 
#dyslexiawithadhd 
#educationaltherapy 
#educationaltherapist
Leprechauns strike again - making literacy messes Leprechauns strike again - making literacy messes and leaving puzzles in their wake…
🍀🧩🍀
Ready for reading, writing, rhyming, and movement-based fun in the spirit of St. Patrick’s Day.
🍀👀🍀
My elementary students have come to expect a scavenger hunt of sorts for every holiday. It’s amazing how much more writing & reading practice they can stretch into when it’s part of an interactive and imaginative play activity. I make it up every time - so hopefully it will all work out. 
🌈🌟
Gold pieces and rainbow parts are spread about my yard…they better find them all. 😆

Happy St Patrick’s Day! 🇮🇪 

#learning-frameworks #educationaltherapy #themedlearning #luckoftheirish🍀 #structuredliteracy #interactivelearning
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