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Happy Monday! It’s just Kiki & me in the books

Happy Monday!

It’s just Kiki & me in the books nook making some plans for student work this week…
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Finding books that suit struggling readers is a big challenge - so I often make my own mini books for them or pull words and phrases from books that capture their interest and match their intellect so they have access to preferred text. Prep for reading and graphic organizers help set them up for successful experiences with written text.

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Engagement is key!
And then facilitating access is on me.
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(And don’t you still love the vowel pattern houses that a student made?)

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Beware the fonts & layout… Reading access can be eased with font choice and size as well as spacing.

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Have a good one literacy people! (And all others too… but perhaps we are all literacy
people?)

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#isntkikicute #vowelpatterns #slingerland #ortongillingham
#educationaltherapy #literacy #childrensbooks #dyslexia #picturebooks #teachreading #accesstoreading #childrensbookauthor #childrensbookpublishers #childrenbookpublishing

🌞Happy Summer Reading all! This week is Summer

🌞Happy Summer Reading all!

This week is Summer Goody Bags time!
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Do I like to spoil my students a little bit?
🤔 Hmm, maybe!!

But I enjoy it…😉
And they work so hard!
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So they earn some fun and recognition for sure.

When I can find a way to treat them for their hard work - I do.

Fidgets and props and books that were under $4!
(Thanks to then amazing @books_inc._alameda !)

The foam popping ice cream 🍦 cone seemed the surprise hit.

Included summer reading Bingo pages too -
Hope they will be inspired.
Summer reading and trips to the library are a magic memory from when I was a little person.
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Happy summer reading to all!
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#educationaltherapy #educationaltherapist #learningframeworks #learning-frameworks #literacymatters #kidssummerreading

I get so excited when I find a simple yet fresh ne

I get so excited when I find a simple yet fresh new word!! Who is with me on this?! 🤩🧐🤓Two today with the same vowel pattern!

✔️Gotta gather these unusual and juicy v-c-e words for my learners’ reading lists!

I love being able to say, “Yeah - that’s a real word and I just learned it today while I was reading!”

Even the humble v-c-e pattern words can be rich and sophisticated in meaning!

#lovelanguage
#ortongillinghamapproach #ortongillingham #slingerland #literacy #vocabulary #learning-frameworks #learningframeworks #educationaltherapy #educationaltherapist

➡️Love this book... 🤍🤎📖🤎🤍 “S

➡️Love this book...

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“Sleuth & Solve”.
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For my upper elementary learners. Good rich, text in manageable pieces. Mini mystery or riddle to solve. Impulse control development to try not to peek at the answer before considering possible solutions. This book is on repeat request by my students...

Ticking a lot of the boxes:
✔️ quick read
✔️ rich vocabulary
✔️ complex, varied sentences for phrase reading (Slingerland prep for reading)
✔️executive function controls
✔️ curious minds want to know!
✔️ fun visuals
✔️ relationship bonding with our discussion and collaborative problem-solving
✔️students eager to read it
✔️fun!

Thanks to the amazing children’s book consultant at Copperfields Books in Petaluma, CA who always gives great recommendations.

@copperfieldsbooks
@chroniclekidsbooks

“Sleuth&Solve”
By Victor Escandell

#literacyinstruction #slingerland #educationaltherapy #learningframeworks #learning-frameworks
#chroniclebooks #kidsbooks #copperfieldsbooks #copperfieldspetaluma

➡️ New book review in honor of my friend Summe

➡️ New book review in honor of my friend Summer Batte’s new book release!
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Who is not facing some level of anxiety right now? 😬🥺😕
So many reasons to feel uneasy... let’s adjust well by learning healthy strategies for lifelong coping and teach our kiddos too.
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Summer’s book comes out at a great time to offer practical, science-based strategies... 💡⏰💡

Head to my blog at Learning-frameworks.com to read more.
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@summerbatte @freespiritpublishing

#learningframeworks
#educationaltherapy #anxiety #helpforanxiety #summerbatte #nameandtame #freespiritpublishing

May the Fourth Be With You! 🌟 ⭐️ 🌟 Sta

May the Fourth Be With You!
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Star Wars theme offers some good r-controlled sorting words. 🤩🌓
Does this pool noodle say “light saber” to you? Making do!

✨Happy Teacher Appreciation Week!✨ I guess edu

✨Happy Teacher Appreciation Week!✨
I guess educational therapists can be a part of the celebration too!🤩 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼👏🏼
I appreciate my caring families and students.
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Chocolate chip cookies are my fave.
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Even better when my two sibling students make them for me with a “secret family ingredient”.😯😍 and these are all gone by the way... so yummy!

Rascally bunnies 🐰 have created another seasona

Rascally bunnies 🐰 have created another seasonal session for my students!
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There will be reading, there will be spelling, there will be clue finding and code-breaking... and yes - there is even a lock to open!
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Maybe I have been watching too much Survivor ... but the weather has been so nice and the leprechauns left the learners demanding more hunting to their instruction!
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Students earn stamps for each task in their bunny center.
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We will see how it goes...😳

#goodatovercomplicatingthings
#makelearningfun
#educationaltherapy #educationaltherapist #literacy

⭐️ So excited! 🤓🤩As both a Jane Austen &

⭐️ So excited! 🤓🤩As both a Jane Austen & picture book biography fan - today’s acquisition to my children’s literature collection is especially connected:
A Jane Austen picture book biography.
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Will my students love it as I hope they will?
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We will see! I will definitely be offering it up!
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I have posted before about my visit to her house in Chawton and Jane’s tiny writing table, and now I see that I missed visiting the writing desk!
Next time, England!

Historical and biographical picture books offer rich instructional opportunities for my bright, curious and intellectual students who nevertheless struggle with the written word.

We tackle it many ways — often pulling out words and phrases to pre-read. Then, the kids scavenger hunt to find the words in the book, and check them off our list as we go... this helps with engagement and persistence, and adds some interactive playfulness.

Thank you @bloomsburychildrens and @vesperillustration and @jasmine.a.stirling.author for bringing out this book.

#educationaltherapy #structuredliteracy #dyslexiclearners
#childrensbooks
#picturebooks
#picturebookbiographies
#janeausten
#literacy
#aspiringchildrensbookauthor
#amostclevergirlhowjaneaustendiscoveredhervoice #amostclevergirl

Who is ready for Spring? 🙋🏼‍♀️ I love

Who is ready for Spring?
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I love Spring! This lovely cherry tree is right out my window and it reminds me every year to remember to pay attention to its fleeting pink beauty.
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I hope to embrace the season of renewal, rebirth and regeneration by finding ways to refresh and revitalize!
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You noticing a theme in these words?
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Yes, bringing out the “RE” prefix will definitely be part of it for my students...!
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RE = again
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Wishing you a chance to reset and rejoice in nature.🌸🌱🌷🌿

What are your spring plans for restarting? 🙂
And what are favorite RE prefix words? 🤓

🌈Leprechauns are already about making messes of

🌈Leprechauns are already about making messes of letters and words for students to sort out!
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Get out your green!
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Who’s ready for an outdoor scavenger hunt and play-based learning?
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Me! (With my students too...)

My littles:
Find the vowels the leprechaun hid!

My biggers:
Find the words from each vowel pattern and write your own.

Solving puzzles, using clues, organizing, and sequencing practice all good “frameworks” skills for any kind of task.

Happy St Patrick’s Day lads and lasses!

Thank you @carolina_ortongillingham for the perfect clover syllable page! 🍀

#educationaltherapy
#literacyfun
#phonicsfun
#literacy #learningframeworks

Springtime start! 🌼🌻🌼 In Alameda - publi

Springtime start!
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In Alameda - public K-5 heads to a first day of in person school.
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Wishing the kids, families, teachers, and staff a great first day.
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It feels like a good thing and also a courageous thing.
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Many of my private school students and families have already conquered the weekly swab tests and mask-wearing learning.
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Best to all who are finding a way to teach and learn in an ever-changing set up.
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Wherever you are doing your school — Stay well, stay strong, keep growing!
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✨Excited to focus on learning more about childre

✨Excited to focus on learning more about children’s book publishing at this conference!✨
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Eager to create books for those acquiring new literacy skills based on my years of supporting struggling yet eager young readers.

#ny21scbwi
#scbwibird

#literacymatters
#educationaltherapy
#dyslexiaeducation
#dyslexia
#earlychildhoodeducation
#learningframeworks
#childrensbooks

Will you look at that! 👀 Luna Dance has a new p

Will you look at that! 👀 Luna Dance has a new podcast!
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And I was gratified to have the opportunity to join the conversation.
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Interested in reflecting on differentiated learning? We were too!
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That’s the topic in this casual conversation about learning with Zoom cameras on and off, when to watch and when to show, when to listen and when to share. The moments of choice to build connection in learning.
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Let me know if you listen and what you think — please add your wisdom and experience to this dialog.
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https://lunadanceinstitute.org/professional-learning/resources/the-dance-inquiry-podcast/

https://open.spotify.com/episode/4w8EZGeaxYTfH3K1auHsal?si=ztq76M7iQvG1MKC0rtCgug

✨🤗 ✏️ 🤗 ✨ I try to take note of thin

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I try to take note of things my students say, especially when it illuminates how they may learn best.

Here is one that stood out from a highly dyslexic 4th grader: “I love my eraser because it makes me feel safe to make mistakes.”

Usually I gently limit access to erasers to help my students “embrace the mistake” instead of fervently erasing their errors - a common habit often born of frustration or perfectionism.
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Limiting erasers’ availability ✏️ can help curb discomfort with mistake-making by leaving the mistake in place as we keep going with practice. And to avoid time spent erasing.

This student’s sincere and warm appreciation of the comfort that erasers offered him to allow mistake-making was a different sentiment. The goal is feeling safe to make mistakes, and for him, the eraser provided a reminder that there is a means for fixing things rather than a tool for eradication of errors.
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And it’s a reminder that each student is coming at learning individually.

I appreciate when they say what they need or prefer so that we can embrace that and honor their individuality.

#dyslexiatutoring #dyslexia #makemistakes #erasers #educationaltherapist #educationaltherapy #embracethemistake

“Allostatic Load” - who is feeling it?? 🤪🧐🤓😑😌

Wonderful to get to reflect with peers in educational therapy.

@aetedtherapy

#associationofeducationaltherapists
#educationaltherapist
#janeholmesbernstein
#brainbasedlearning
#individuallearning
#aetonline

When your students have dyslexia, they might build

When your students have dyslexia, they might build things for you that you can only imagine...
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I use a narrative of Vowel Houses for the dependable vowel patterns.

My student saw that I had created rudimentary versions to teach and he understood right away in his visual and 3D mind what I was going for and had not yet achieved...
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His eyes lit up and he said, “I can make those -
Can I take yours home to copy the words and make them?”

Um, yes please!
I told him it was like a dream come true for a student to want to make them!

He came back next time presenting me with houses for the three patterns I had been teaching him so far!
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Wow! He nailed all the qualities that I had requested, and accurately represented the houses and the metaphor for the patterns that we use. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

And subsequent students loved using them to sort words and deliver “mail words” to each house using the doorbell button. I provide words and they have to go the right house - before I did it with 2d sheets or cardboard leaning on things and falling over. 🤣

Thanks to this clever 4th grader, I have these amazing models! It was so exciting to see this guy use his talent and natural pathways to create a teaching tool for what he was trying to learn.
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He used his structured literacy training to build some cool structures!
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I am so impressed with him, and gratified to see how he created the vowel houses to represent his learning and give something to others, in spite of his depth of challenge with the letters and sounds. 💫

Social Distance Sessions! ⛅️🌞🌼🌞🌤

Social Distance Sessions!
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Grateful for the days like today when good air and good weather make it possible for one to one in person ET time...
Zoom break? 🙋🏼‍♀️
Yes, please!

Enjoying special supplies to make 6 feet apart still feel connected and interactive...
✅ robot grabber arms (makes everything more fun!)
✅ back scratcher page turner
✅ sticky notes
✅ light sabers, popsicle sticks and other make-shift pointers
✅ rocks so things don’t blow away!
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We are outdoors, masks on, with gloves, wipes, and hand sanitizer at the ready as we read, spell, and enjoy being together for our literacy learning time!
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Kids have their own learning session materials - BYO chair, white board, clipboard, pens. I have a supply of squeeze balls and other items to give them to keep and add to their bag.

The kids seem happier working this way... when we can!
Fingers crossed the air endures. 🌬🤞🏼 🙏🏼 🤞🏼 🌬

Anyone else finding ways to make social distance sessions happen?
Share your tools & tips!

#literacy
#educationaltherapy
#educationtherapist
#ET
#covidlearning
#structuredliteracy
#dylsexia

⏰ it’s time —> Welcome back to Zoom School!

⏰ it’s time —> Welcome back to Zoom School! (Schoom? Zool?)
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After snapping quick first day pics of my own kids at their computers —>
My son then made a sign for me... 😜🤣

To welcome me to what he decided is “46th grade” for me, as I tackle my scheduling to create custom plans for each of my clients.

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These are time-consuming, tedious admin hours that are worth it once they bring me closer to seeing my kiddos and doing our structured literacy work together! 📒📘

🌟Sending positive vibes to students, caregivers, teachers, educational therapists, specialists, and pretty much all of us who are working to navigate this one-of-a-kind educational moment! 🧭

Be well & on to good learning experiences.
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#educational-therapy
#educationaltherapy
#learning-frameworks
#structuredliteracyinstruction
#learningframeworks

16 causes in 16 days...Day 16: Literacy Support!
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I work with dyslexia and teach reading.
It’s an honor and I am grateful. My struggling readers are brilliant kids and hardworking learners with caring dedicated families. They struggle to access and afford instruction that is effective for them.🤩
It shouldn’t be so hard to learn to read and write!
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Literacy is fundamental to many other issues including social justice, equity, mental health, economic security and so much more. That’s why I try to make sure I do what I can to prevent one less non-reader grow up without specialized support.
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This campaign is from the worthy International Dyslexia Association - they suggest even a $1 will go a long way!

https://www.idadollardrive.com/

They migrated their 70th anniversary campaign into an emergency fund in response to Covid19 to help students who need one to one, families who need devices, and schools that need support.

Dedicated to my dad, who struggled to overcome dyslexia and built a life and successful career to support his family. ❤️ #16forapril16
#16forapril16th
#everychildareader
#dyslexia
#internationaldyslexiaassociation
#raisereaders #ortongillingham #slingerland
#learningframeworks #educationaltherapy

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