From Paper to Digital
Covid19 brought teaching to a remote platform. Breath, Darling, this is just a chapter (by S.C. Lourie) reminded me that the plot in this story would have a resolution. I also read a blog by Kathleen Neagle Sokolowski that reminded me that you have to know what you believe about teaching and learning and why you teach the way you do, otherwise you will teach whatever is handed to you. And whatever is handed to you is often not best for the students in front of you. I have a passion to always find what is best for students. So in this unprecedented time I began a journey searching what would be best. I was coming up empty handed. I did however find three websites that ended up taking my teaching to a new level. I ended up not having to change much of what I teach, just how I presented the instruction. To be honest, I love my newly created slides and interventions, and they have brought engagement and ease to my instruction. I hope you find my discoveries helpful and fun! |
Flippity Easily turn a Google™ Spreadsheet into a Set of Online Flashcards and Other Cool Stuff! The randomizer is a perfect substitute for the non-sense word cubes! Give it a try! |
Build Sight-Word Vocabulary
by Intervention Central
Rapid recognition of sight words is a key foundation skill that supports the development of reading fluency (Hudson, Torgesen, Lane, & Turner, 2012; NICHHD, 2000). Below are four quick and simple tutoring interventions that promote student acquisition of common sight words. While of course teachers can employ these ideas, schools should also consider making efficient use of non-instructional personnel (e.g., support staff, paraprofessionals, adult or peer tutors) to serve as sight-word interventionists (Burns & Gibbons, 2008).
by Intervention Central
Rapid recognition of sight words is a key foundation skill that supports the development of reading fluency (Hudson, Torgesen, Lane, & Turner, 2012; NICHHD, 2000). Below are four quick and simple tutoring interventions that promote student acquisition of common sight words. While of course teachers can employ these ideas, schools should also consider making efficient use of non-instructional personnel (e.g., support staff, paraprofessionals, adult or peer tutors) to serve as sight-word interventionists (Burns & Gibbons, 2008).
Promote Phonics Skills: Word Boxes & Word Sort
by Intervention Central
Young children must master phonics--the mapping of the sounds of speech to the symbols of the alphabet--before they can become accomplished readers (NICHHD, 2000). Word boxes/word sort is a one-to-one intervention that can strengthen essential phonics skills (Joseph, 2002).
by Intervention Central
Young children must master phonics--the mapping of the sounds of speech to the symbols of the alphabet--before they can become accomplished readers (NICHHD, 2000). Word boxes/word sort is a one-to-one intervention that can strengthen essential phonics skills (Joseph, 2002).
UFLI Intensive Reading Intervention
UFLI-Intensive tutoring uses an explicit, systematic, and intensive approach. The model also employs multisensory methods to introduce and practice skills and concepts needed for proficient reading. The UFLI-Intensive program follows a scope and sequence designed to ensure that students systematically acquire each skill needed and learn to apply each skill with automaticity and confidence.
Toy Theater
Need an intervention for random letter identification? Feed Freddy from Toy Theater is a favorite amongst special education 1st graders. Ever have accidental inspiration? As we moved back to in-person-learning we were practicing our alphabet arc letter placement. When we finished building the letter arc, the students asked if we could Feed Freddy. Bam! Instant inspiration. They could feed their letter boxes as I fed Freddy and we could all work on letter identification at the same time! I just love-it when stuff like this happens. The best part, the principal walked in. They were so engaged, they did not even notice him!
Need virtual math manipulatives? Toy theater will probably have the right tool for that too!
Website LinksFlippity https://flippity.net/
UFLI Hub https://education.ufl.edu/ufli/virtual-teaching/main/ Toy Theater https://toytheater.com/ Intervention Central https://www.interventioncentral.org/ |
SLP Resources (for all educators)
Hello! If you attended my session at ISTE2020 I found the resources you heard me talk about that my speech path friend loves and used during remote instruction. She says this: Serena Murison is the SLP Guru of Green Screen. She has a ton of YouTube videos with everything from basic introduction, to themes, to more advanced stuff like animation and videos. She started an online company called Playspark that sells a bunch of materials. She is also on Teachers Pay Teachers and often offers Freebies. To learn more about Green Screen Therapy, check out Serena's YouTube channel and her website. Not Green Screen related, but Digital SLP was a Godsend. They have a 10 day free trial membership. I would STRONGLY encourage people to try it. Yes, there are a lot of articulation activities....but there are also social skills activities, vocabulary building, comparing and contrasting, writing activities, syntax activities, etc. There are several activities that anyone in Special Education would find beneficial. |