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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

⬅️📖 🏳️ Having a good time flagging up

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Having a good time flagging up this book and getting next level instructional ideas. 💡
Anyone who teaches reading —> worth it!
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Thanks to Ms Eide! #deniseeide
#uncoveringthelogicofenglish
#structurediteracy
#educationaltherapy
#englishmakessense
#dyslexia
#teachreading
#ortongillingham
#slingerland #literacyforall

🔸Jane Austen wrote and re-wrote her timeless wo

🔸Jane Austen wrote and re-wrote her timeless works on this tiny table with a quill pen and small pieces of paper that she could tuck away to hide if someone entered. ✍🏻 🚪
Was so moved to see this “desk” in person and am reflecting on the juxtaposition of such a sparse set up being so profusely productive.
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Maybe a sparse set up might also suit more focus in the 21st century as well? Perhaps a minimalist approach can allow more space for creativity to flourish?
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Wondering what students will notice in this simple set up?

And, of course, this is also Jane Austen. She must have been fiercely devoted to her work and a genius at it, to pull this off as a single woman during the Regency days on her tiny table. 📃💪🏼👒 I love ❤️ this table and all the rich history and wisdom for today this object suggests. 😌

#writtenexpression
#educationaltherapy
#janeausten
#minimalism
#janeaustendesk
#adhd
#adhdwriters

🤓On the search —>goodness glasses! 😆 Share

🤓On the search —>goodness glasses! 😆 Share your good...👀 ✨Making efforts to find the good in every day and make it explicit with my learners so they can do the same.✨
👓🌟I see so many strengths in my learners they may not see in themselves. 💪🏾🦾💪🏼💪 🧠Our brains’ survival bias means that noticing and remembering the good bits take deliberate effort and practice. 👁Training an intentional eye for the good things. 👀 👓 How do you notice the positives and keep your Goodness Glasses in clear focus?🤓 Today I enjoyed getting a boost of good news @tanksgoodnews 🌟🙏🏼🌟🙏🏼 #learningframeworks
#educationaltherapy
#2020goals
#goodnesssurroundsus
#strengthsbasedlearning
#seethegood
#sharethegood

This fabulous @sunnyside_microschool learner gave

This fabulous @sunnyside_microschool learner gave a passionate presentation on their inspiration - @lizzobeeating - and wanted me to share a picture so Lizzo might see it and know how much her beautiful music, words about loving yourself, and “elaborate” costumes mean to them. We are proud of you, Justin, and grateful to Lizzo for her positive spirit and talent. 🎶💪🏾🔥🤎🎶
Shout out to all the kids who worked hard on papers and presentations at school! 🌻

💛 Find Kind!👀 “Kindness is...” - what do

💛 Find Kind!👀
“Kindness is...” - what do you fill in? 🤔 🧐
In the Season of Giving - 🎁 this is a gift we can all access - plus it’s good for others and good for ourselves. 🤗😉🥰😌🤗
Thank you @doinggoodtogether for this template activity and all the good you suggest!

As an ET, I will use it to prompt writing as well as reflection and see what great ideas come from my students.

How do learners and kids and people around you engage in kindness? What idea do you like for promoting more kindness in our world?

#givekindness
#findkind
#doinggoodtogether
#kindness
#kindnessquilt
#educationaltherapy
#learningframeworks
https://www.doinggoodtogether.org/bhf/kindness-quilt

🙏🏼🌟👏🏻🌟 Thank you Educate, Emily

🙏🏼🌟👏🏻🌟 Thank you Educate, Emily Hanford, and APM for these thoughtful and researched reports on reading instruction in the US. All are a great listen for parents, educators, administrators, higher ed, politicians and taxpayers. Guess that’s all of us! 🗣👥👥🙌🏻 The research is out there and my experience teaching literacy aligns with their reports. We have the information and tools to teach kids to read effectively. We can increase these outcomes for all readers. 📖📚 #educatepodcast
#emilyhanford
#americanpublicmedia
#structuredliteracy #dyslexia #untiltheyallcanread #simpleviewofreading #slingerland #ortongillingham

It’s all about pumpkins right now...
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Sentence sorts, writing pumpkin paragraphs, reading pumpkin facts, and Halloween books.

Most popular trivia: jack-o-lanterns used to be carved from potatoes and radishes In Ireland prior to coming to the US.

Anyone else trying to find ways to channel the seasonal excitement into some productive literacy activities? 😁

#educationaltherapy
#educationaltherapist
#pumpkinfunfacts

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