How to teach Reading & Spelling Bringing the Science of reading into the classroom
Practical Ideas for Classroom Teachers, Parents, Teacher Training and Mentoring
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How to teach the single vowels
Let's start at the very beginning, a very good place to start, when we read we begin with A B D .....
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Review lesson for the letter "C"
In my never-ending quest for review activities, today I made up a lesson to review the letter “C”.
My first question for my student is: What do you remember about the letter “C”? Read More
My first question for my student is: What do you remember about the letter “C”? Read More
Reading Passages with Your Child
In planning a workable home practice that parents can do to help their children with learning to break the code of English and understand what they hear and read, I would choose a few tasks to begin.Supply the parents with a list of reading books or short passages that are on their child’s instructional reading level.
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Inflectional Morphemes are suffixes that show • number/plurals, -s/-es • possession, -‘s, -s’ • past tense, -ed • continuing action,-ing, • comparison, -er, -est
Each of these inflectional morphemes should be taught in a lesson or series of lessons. Read More
Each of these inflectional morphemes should be taught in a lesson or series of lessons. Read More
Teaching handwriting
When learning how to write each letter we talk about the shapes which make up each letter, vertical or horizontal lines, diagonal lines and circles or semi-arcs. We also talk about the relative size of each letter and the sequence of strokes to draw each letter..
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the act of writing a word or a sentence
Perhaps the most important thing to realize about writing is that it is such a multi-dimensional act. Here is a list of some, but not all, of the skills that comprise writing:- Writing letters accurately and automatically- Spelling individual words- Understanding the meanings of words and using the correct words and tone to fit the written piece – ask yourself: “Am I to use informal, conversational vocabulary or more formal academic vocabulary?” “What are the specialized vocabulary words that should be included in this written piece?”
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About me
Sasha Borenstein has worked in the fields of Special Education and Literacy for 50 years as a classroom teacher, remediation specialist, diagnostician, college instructor and educational consultant. She also founded and directed a clinic in Los Angeles, the Kelter Center, for 36 years.
Sasha’s training began at Columbia Teachers’ College, but she has continued learning about learning and literacy throughout her career: Patricia LIndamood, Dr. Mel Levine, Maureen Aumann, Step up to Writing, working with the Language! Program and Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy, to name a few.
Sasha recently has brought out the second edition of her book, How to Teach Reading and Spelling, Bringing the Science of Reading into the Classroom, and has begun again to train and mentor teachers in this area. The training focuses on what to teach (the scope and sequence of SOR literacy), how to teach this body of knowledge (Structured Literacy) and how to develop the problem - solving skills of the participating teachers and their students so they can become independent, thoughtful, self-correcting linguists.
Teaching RESOURCES Based on SOR
WRITING SKILLS
Step Up To Writing
Winston Grammar
Writing Matters, Developing Sentence Skills in Students of All Ages