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July 10, 2024
Kinesthetic & Tactile Learning: The Complete Guide
Does your child have trouble sitting still? Are they constantly fiddling with something? Or maybe they are always running and playing sports? Your child may be a kinesthetic learner! Kinesthetic learning comes…
July 3, 2024
Dyslexia: Effective Teaching Strategies & Tips
Around 15-20% of the population have dyslexia. However, multisensory teaching is proven to be an effective path to overcoming the challenges associated with dyslexia.
Check out these awesome strategies that…
June 24, 2024
Summer Learning: How to Prevent Learning Loss & Have Fun
Summer is a great time for kids to get outside, play, and have fun while providing a great break from the school year grind. Few people want to think about school during the summer, but summer learning loss is…
May 24, 2024
How Free Play Leads to Success
Free play will actually help children think better, process information better, and thus their learning abilities will improve.
May 9, 2024
Using Movement in Learning
It’s true that some children don’t seem to rely much on movement that mimics the concept that is being taught; other kids, however, seem to be unable to learn without mirroring their learning with their…
January 25, 2024
The Fun (and Effective) Way to Teach Quotation Marks
When I taught second grade, the majority of my students had a hard time with quotation marks. They were not sure how to use them, when to use them, or how to identify in writing the words that were actually…
January 25, 2024
How to Teach Prepositions: Time
Last week, we covered the definition, examples, and types of prepositions in our blog, How to Teach Prepositions: Location. We emphasized the importance and benefits of teaching prepositions in a multisensory…
January 25, 2024
How to Teach Prepositions: Location
The incredible challenge in teaching really boring material is that it is also boring to the teacher, and believe me, children pick up on our emotions as we teach! If the subject matter bores us to tears, it…
January 25, 2024
How to Teach Prepositions: Prepositional Phrases & Reading Fluency
In order to become stellar readers, children need practice finding prepositional phrases in text. One reason for this is to help them read more fluently. Think about the phrasing fluent readers practice that…
January 8, 2024
How to Teach Apostrophes
My students always had a really hard time understanding the use of apostrophes, both in making contractions and in possessive tense. I had to use little drawings and stories to drive the learning home in a way…
January 8, 2024
How to Teach Final Silent E
Silent E can be very tricky for students who struggle with reading. We teach children to sound out words and they grind to a halt in the face of undecodable sound spellings and "silent" letters.
January 8, 2024
How to Teach Punctuation for Items in a Series
My own students in second grade really struggled with this idea. It took me by surprise because I assumed it was going to be one of those skills that I could show them, and then that they would all just nod…