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#97: Expanding MTSS: Elevating Math and Writing Interventions in Education 20:53

7M ago20:53

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Send us a text Ever wondered why math and writing seem to get overshadowed in educational interventions? It's time to change the narrative. Join us as we explore the pressing need to broaden the MTSS framework beyond its usual focus on reading. We'll delve into the significance of effective Tier 1 curriculums for math and writing and highlight the …

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#96: Unlocking Reading Success: The Power of MTSS in Supporting Struggling Learners 20:00

7M ago20:00

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Send us a text Are standardized intervention programs failing your struggling readers? Join me, on this enlightening episode of the Reaching Struggling Learners podcast, where we uncover how the Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS) can be the game-changer in boosting reading skills. We emphasize the critical role of phonics in the Tier 1 curricul…

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#95: Streamlining MTSS: Effective Strategies for Supporting Struggling Students 12:30

7M ago12:30

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Send us a text How can educators effectively support struggling students without drowning in procedural tasks? Join me, as we uncover the secrets behind the Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS) on today's episode of the Reaching Struggling Learners podcast. We start with a deep understanding of how systems, whether in teaching or daily routines, …

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#94: Streamlining Success for All Learners with MTSS Insights 17:58

7M ago17:58

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Send us a text Ever wondered how educators can pinpoint and tackle the unique challenges faced by struggling students? Join me on the Reaching Struggling Learners podcast, where we unravel the mysteries of educational interventions within MTSS and RTI frameworks. We delve into what it takes to set realistic student progress expectations and the art…

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#93: Transforming Education with Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS) 40:08

8M ago40:08

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Send us a text Ever wondered how a school ecosystem can adapt to better serve both students and educators? This episode is a deep dive into the world of MTSS (Multi-Tiered System of Supports) and its profound impact on the educational journey. Join me, as we unravel the skepticism and spotlight the true transformative power of MTSS within education…

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#92: Unlocking the Potential of MTSS in Education: Collaboration, Support, and Success 21:17

8M ago21:17

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Send us a text Are you ready to uncover the true power of the Multi-Tiered System of Supports and how it's reshaping education? Join me, as we peel back the layers of MTSS, revealing its core as an invaluable tool for keeping students on track and minimizing the leap to special education. We'll explore the real success stories of MTSS and why ident…

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#91: Exploring the Layers of Support: A Deep Dive into the Multi-Tiered System of Support (MTSS) Framework 20:00

8M ago20:00

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Send us a text Embark on an educational journey with me, as we unravel the complexities of the Multi-Tiered System of Support (MTSS) framework, a cornerstone in supporting the diverse needs of students. Guaranteed to enlighten educators and parents alike, this episode is a deep dive into the world of MTSS, where we break down the essential tiers th…

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#90: Revamping the Multi-Tiered System of Supports for Today's Students 16:37

8M ago16:37

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Send us a text Ever felt like the education system might be failing our kids in reading, writing, and arithmetic? That's exactly what we're tackling in this episode, where I shed light on the imperative for a revitalized Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS) that can truly meet the needs of an unexpected majority of students demanding additional h…

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# 89: The Crisis in Education: Confronting the Failure and Forging a Path to Reform 14:46

8M ago14:46

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Send us a text Are our schools equipped to prepare the next generation for the future? Today's episode confronts a harrowing crisis in education, with stark realities that can no longer be ignored. As I share my grave concerns, you'll discover how a staggering number of students are failing to meet basic reading and math benchmarks, and why the red…

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#84: Mastering the Power of Data to Advocate for Student Support 16:53

11M ago16:53

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Send us a text Unlock the full potential of educational data with me. This episode, I peel back the curtain on how numbers and charts become the undeniable champions for student support. We delve into the art of turning data into a persuasive narrative that can sway even the most budget-conscious administrators. Experience the power of data through…

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#83: Empowering Strategies for Parent-Educator Communication 14:48

11M ago14:48

14:48

Send us a text Unlock the secrets to seamless communication with parents in the education sphere, as I share empowering strategies that turn potential conflicts into partnerships. In this riveting discussion, we dissect the art of crafting precise, measurable goals, shining a light on how IEPs can serve as a common language to bridge the gap betwee…

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# 82: Optimizing Special Education: The Case for Mastery and Effective Goal Setting 13:58

11M ago13:58

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Send us a text Are special education goals leaving our students in a lurch? That’s the burning question I tackle head-on as I dissect the pitfalls of nonsensical goals and the cookie-cutter 80% accuracy benchmark that's often accepted as the norm. Through my experiences at Teaching Struggling Learners, I've witnessed firsthand the transformative po…

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#81: Redefining Educational Support: Unraveling MTSS, RTI and Special Education for Student Success 20:52

11M ago20:52

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Send us a text Ever felt like the educational support system is a maze without an exit? I'm Jessica Curtis, and in this episode, I confront the tangle head-on, dissecting the complexities of MTSS and RTI in schools. Join me as I make the case for these frameworks to be more than mere pathways to special education, advocating for a synergistic relat…

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#80: Cracking the Code: Strategies for Effective Math Intervention and Progress Monitoring 16:52

12M ago16:52

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Send us a text Ever feel like you're playing detective when it comes to monitoring math progress? Well, grab your magnifying glass because on today's episode, I, Jessica Curtis, am your guide to unraveling the mystery of effective math intervention. With a spotlight on choosing students with aligned needs and deciphering assessment data, we lay out…

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# 79: From Basic Math to Algebra: Mastering Foundational Skills 18:55

12M ago18:55

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Send us a text I still remember the day when algebra went from being my nemesis to my ally, a transformation that wouldn't have been possible without a firm grasp of basic math. Now, I want to help you navigate the same challenges, as we explore the impact of foundational skills on mastering algebra. In the heart of our discussion, I take you back …

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#78: Rethinking Math Goals and Maximizing Progress Monitoring in IEPs 11:03

12M ago11:03

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Send us a text Ever found yourself tangled in the complexities of math goals within IEPs, particularly those pesky word problems? You're in for a revelation as we tackle the misconceptions and unveil a more strategic approach. Word problems have been the go-to for encompassing multiple skills, but as I've experienced firsthand, this method isn't th…

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#77: Unlocking Mathematical Potential with Evidence-Based Interventions 15:04

1y ago15:04

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Send us a text Ever feel like math gets the short end of the stick when it comes to educational support? Join me, Jessica Curtis, as I shine a spotlight on the shadowed world of math intervention, ensuring that students receive the balanced educational support they desperately need. In a realm where reading intervention takes center stage, I lead a…

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Mastering the Art of Progress Monitoring: Strategies, Tips, and Resources 14:05

1y ago14:05

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Send us a text Ever felt overwhelmed by the task of progress monitoring? Rest easy, friends! We're here to demystify the process and arm you with some strategic tips to maximize your intervention time. We kick off our enlightening discussion with an in-depth exploration of ensuring your goals are precise and skill-focused. We’ll also touch on the i…

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#75 Achieving Academic Goals through Effective Progress Monitoring 13:34

1y ago13:34

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Send us a text What if the progress monitoring tool you are using is not aligned with your academic goals? How will this impact the data you collect and the progress you can report? Let's explore these questions and more in this enlightening episode where we delve into the nitty-gritty of progress monitoring for academic goals. We'll shed light on …

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#74 Rethinking Student Goal Setting: From Test-Oriented to Skill Mastery 13:44

1y ago13:44

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Send us a text Are you ready to rewrite the playbook on student goal setting and progress monitoring? Join Jessica from Teaching Struggling Learners shifts the focus from tests to practical skills. We'll unpack strategies for setting meaningful yet attainable goals for students, centered around mastering foundational skills. We'll also explore effe…

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#73 Unraveling the Mystery Behind Student's Reading Struggles 16:31

1y ago16:31

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Send us a text What if the answer to a student's reading struggle was hidden in plain sight? Join me, Jessica Curtis of Teaching Struggling Learners, as we unravel the mystery behind identifying the root cause of reading problems in students. We discuss how essential it is to dig deep to find the real cause before introducing any interventions. You…

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#72 Why Reading Comprehension Interventions Aren't Working 15:43

1+ y ago15:43

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Send us a text Last week we talked about how reading comprehension and the fight to increase reading skills and all of the interventions the math interventions the reading interventions all of these things are impacting the enjoyment the kids are finding in their reading and in school in general. That begs the question why are the reading comprehen…

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#71 Have We Gone Too Far With Reading Interventions? 11:52

1+ y ago11:52

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Send us a text Do you remember how much fun it was to learn about the solar system, plants or the states of matter? I can still remember doing experiments in my elementary classrooms, as well as learning about all these really cool, smart, brave people from history. Going home and telling my family about all of the interesting facts that I learned …

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#70 How I Created an Intervention Plan that Changed my Teaching Forever 13:50

1+ y ago13:50

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Send us a text Obviously I talk a lot about intervention plans, how important they are and how effective they can be…but I didn’t always have a good intervention plan, or quite frankly an intervention plan at all! My first year teaching, I was a special education teacher for elementary and it was quite an adventure. I wasn’t given a curriculum or a…

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#69 How to Set Up Your Progress Monitoring Interventions Over the Summer 18:34

1+ y ago18:34

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Send us a text Summer is the perfect time to get ahead of setting up your progress monitoring interventions! This week, we talk about how to get things all set up to save yourself some headache when the school year starts! Subscribe & Review in iTunes Are you subscribed to my podcast? If you’re not, I want to encourage you to do that today. I don’t…

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#68 Kids and Teachers Need Connections to Be Successful 16:40

1+ y ago16:40

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Send us a text Last week, I was talking to a friend of mine who teaches high school and she is one of the most caring teachers I have ever met. The amount of time that this woman spends worrying about her students and finding ways to meet them where they are is, well it’s almost obsessive. She is an extrovert like I have never known before and she …

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#67 The Complete Guide to Managing a Caseload With Progress Monitoring 30:52

2y ago30:52

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Send us a text Special education teachers know that managing a caseload is a lot more than just tracking dates. It includes writing and teaching goals. Then, don’t forget to collect data on those goals! Special education teachers need to progress monitor the goals weekly. They also need to report the results to school personnel and parents. Side no…

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#66 The Ultimate Caseload Manager Checklist 8:22

2y ago8:22

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Send us a text They say that special education teachers are a “different breed” and maybe they are right, whoever “they” is. The fact is that special education teachers juggle so much every day…every hour in reality, that it is an absolute miracle that any of them make it through a week, let alone a school year. Between planning and teaching highly…

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#65 5 Steps to Easily Progress Monitor Math Goals 16:22

2y ago16:22

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Send us a text So, you have MTSS in your school, and there are several students in your class who are struggling in reading, and they are receiving the interventions that they need to make progress. But you have noticed that several of your students are also struggling in math. Yes, you know that you should provide support in math, but the thought …

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#64 Why Small Group Phonics Instruction is Important 11:33

2+ y ago11:33

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Send us a text The last few weeks, we’ve been talking about phonological awareness, and how important it is to drill down to the most basic skill deficit to make real progress in reading for our struggling students. Welcome to the Reaching Struggling Learners podcast. Today we are going to talk about how to incorporate phonics skills throughout the…

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#63 Why Small Group Phonological Awareness is Important 9:27

2+ y ago9:27

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Send us a text Last week we talked about the difference between phonological awareness and phonics. This week, we are going to extend that conversation into talking about how to set up and manage phonological awareness small groups. You may be thinking that those skills are such baby skills, why would anyone dedicate an entire small group time to t…

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#62 Starting the New Year with Progress Monitoring 20:52

2+ y ago20:52

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Send us a text We all know that if we don't start the year with it, we aren't going to do it. So this year, let's start with progress monitoring so that we can be confident in what we do all year long. Getting our progress monitoring under control early on is important, because we know that progress monitoring closes achievement gaps. Our students …

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# 61 Phonological Awareness and Phonics 11:04

2+ y ago11:04

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Send us a text Phonological awareness and phonics are two different things, but many teachers get confused between the 2. While the terms are not interchangeable, they do have some similarities. Today on the Reaching Struggling Learners podcast, we are going to talk about phonological awareness and phonics. Let’s clear up any confusion there may be…

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#60 Managing a Caseload of SMART Goals 7:42

2+ y ago7:42

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Send us a text I don’t know about you, but every time I’ve sat in PD about SMART goals, they spend a lot of time talking about the making of goals and sharing the information afterward, but not so much about actually collecting that data….which is why we talked about that in episode 59 last week. Make sure you check out that episode, if you’ve have…

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#59 Data Collection for SMART Goals 12:36

2+ y ago12:36

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Send us a text The last few episodes, we’ve been talking SMART goals….but not like what we hear in our professional development sessions. In pd, we hear all about how SMART goals are the key to school improvement. Administrators and gurus focus on how this tool can be used to raise school grades, standardized test scores, and eventually improve stu…

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#58 Are SMART Goals Worth the Hype? 11:12

3y ago11:12

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Send us a text There has been a lot of hype over the last several years, especially before Covid, about SMART goals. I’ve sat in hours of professional development about how to create SMART goals for myself and my students. All the gurus have been pushing these things for years, but are they worth the effort? Are SMART goals worth all the hype? Let’…

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#57 How to Get Students to Work With Us 16:56

3y ago16:56

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Send us a text It is almost 2022, and I really cannot believe it. In full transparency, I have been SUPER MIA from the podcast and blog recently because, well…. As some of you know, my husband is in the military and in true military fashion, we got moved at THE most inconvenient time….aka the week before Christmas. We found out a few months before,…

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#56 Using Universal Screeners for Goal Setting 5:41

3+ y ago5:41

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Send us a text Last week we talked about how we can use universal screeners to do more than stress ourselves out on how much work we need to do to get our students where they need to be. We talked about how that information can actually be used to help our students make real progress toward being on grade level. This week, let’s talk about how we c…

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#55 Using Universal Screeners to Set up Interventions 12:07

3+ y ago12:07

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Send us a text The first few weeks of school are a wonderful, stressful time of the year. We get to know our new students, we get procedures and things all set up. Also, we test the students a whole lot. Wait...what? Yup, we know it’s coming...the first set of assessments for the school year. Those tests are used in our evaluations, and also help u…

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#54 Understanding Standardized Assessments 11:10

3+ y ago11:10

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Send us a text Standardized assessments are practically curse words in the teacher community, and for good reason. They are truly the bane of so many teachers' existences, but as much as I hate to admit it, I don’t think they are going away anytime soon. So, how about we make a little bit more sense out of the chaos and find some ways to use these …

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#53 What are Achievement Gaps? 6:29

3+ y ago6:29

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Send us a text In education we talk a lot about achievement or learning gaps, but what is this really? And is it really that important for teachers to understand? Today we are going to talk about achievement gaps, and how we get information about them. Subscribe & Review in iTunes Are you subscribed to my podcast? If you’re not, I want to encourage…

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#52 Progress Monitoring Fixes Achievement Gaps 10:48

3+ y ago10:48

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Send us a text Hi! Welcome back! I’ve taken a few weeks off to just get caught up on things and try to enjoy a bit of summer before I jump back into helping my friends set up classrooms and behavior management systems and oh gosh all the laminating! So, for this first episode back, I wanted to talk about achievement gaps and how progress monitoring…

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#51 Onset-Rime 7:39

3+ y ago7:39

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Send us a text Welcome to our final episode in our phonological awareness series….Onset-Rime! We have been talking about phonological awareness and phonemic awareness for a while now, and I hope that you’ve gained some insight into how important these skill sets are. This final installment will bring a little closure to the series, but also, I hope…

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#50 Rhyme and Alliteration 7:31

3+ y ago7:31

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Send us a text Teaching students to identify rhyming words is a piece of what goes on in lower elementary grades, but do any of us really know why that is an important skill to learn? Today, let’s talk about that, as well as why we bother teaching alliteration….both are skills I questioned teaching myself as a teacher...but I am glad that I did! Su…

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#49 Take a Break and Laugh With Me 22:39

3+ y ago22:39

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Send us a text This year has been harsh...and I need a break. If you need a break, take a listen while I tell a story about my favorite restaurant and an unfortunate Publix trip.... Warning...this episode includes discussion of food poisoning and I didn't figure out how to bleep out the one curse word.... But, I hope you listen and take a break fro…

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#48 Counting Syllables in Words 15:48

3+ y ago15:48

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Send us a text When students read in class, do they struggle with pronouncing words correctly? I don’t mean articulation errors….as in the students have a really hard time saying s specific sound….I mean when they read words, do you know what word they mean, but they are putting too much or too little emphasis on certain pieces of the words? This c…

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#47 Phonological Skills: Words in Sentences 12:26

3+ y ago12:26

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Send us a text How many times have you read a student’s writing and wondered where all the other words were? As in, connecting words were missing, or things like that. What about when looking at their writing and all the words are smooshed together with no spaces between words. Yes, part of these things could be due to other issues, such as a langu…

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#46 What is Phonological Awareness???? 18:02

3+ y ago18:02

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Send us a text Many students who are struggling in school have weak phonological awareness skills. Phonological awareness is a big concept that includes many skills that kids need before they get into phonics and reading. In this first episode of the phonological awareness series, we talk about what exactly is phonological awareness, and why teache…

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#45 Manipulating Phonemes 13:01

3+ y ago13:01

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Send us a text Kindergarten and first grade teachers know the pain with this skill set. If you aren’t a lower grades teacher, just know that one of the skills that these teachers have to teach is asking students to take a word and change a particular sound in the word to make a different word. The processing that this takes is huge...and struggling…

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#44 Beginning, Middle, and Ending Sounds 14:56

3+ y ago14:56

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Send us a text Ok, so disclaimer...we aren’t just going to be talking about beginning sounds...but so many of us just focus on that skill, that I figured I’d use it to grab your attention. The fact is, being able to identify the beginning, middle, and ending sound in words is super important when building phonemic and eventually phonics skills….eve…

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