Tag: teaching
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Daily Phonics
I’ve changed how I teach reading foundational skills to my students. I use a combination of Reading Horizons, the science of reading, and their IEP goals. Let’s walk through how I teach foundational skills during small group instruction: What is this word? We read the word together. How many sounds…
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The most tragic moment of my teaching career
The original post I wrote about this tragedy. June 2009 – Two events occurred in my teaching career. One event made me proud while the other broke my heart into a million pieces. One of my students from my first 3 years of my teaching career was selected by the…
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Sight Word Intervention – Part 1
This school year I had a fifth grade student who had sight word recognition as one of her goals. Specifically she was to identify fourth grade sight words. So where did I find a list of sight words that she could use? I used this website. The website has the Fry…