Manipulatives are crucial when students are combining hands-on skills physical manipulation and internal automatic skills. I love manipulatives and highly recommend using them at every point in time. These 3 manipulatives should be at the forefront of your early classroom.…
Do you need an intervention for students struggling with spelling words confidently? This is it. Stoplight writing is something students can hang on to. Teaching emergent readers to write can be far more complicated than you think. Writing words involves,…
Word Ladders are such a great way to see what your students can really do with manipulating letters in words. I first used Tim Rasinski's Daily Word Ladders. This was the warm up for my word work and students were…
When students are reading and exhibit structure errors, errors with tense, natural language or syntax, they need small group lessons related to these errors. Structure Errors Structure errors are all about the structure of the sentence and understanding the English…
Visual errors are errors regarding what the student sees. Sounds, symbols, print conventions, and analogies are part of regarded as visual cues. Visual Errors This is the second in the series. As I stated before, I believe in analyzing your…