Just like a garden, a classroom thrives when expectations are planted early and nurtured daily. At the start of the year, consistency, structure, and positivity help those seeds of good habits grow into a culture where learning can flourish. With UDL in mind, we can make sure every student has the tools and supports they need to bloom.
September UDL Newsletter Table of Contents:
Movement Routines
Call and Response Cues
Visual Timers
Collaborative Norms
Choice and Voice
"Parking Lot" Boards
"The Gamified Classroom" Podcast
Vision Boards
Quick Grab Tools" Behavior Hacks
Past UDL Design Lab Night Slide Decks
An Entire UDL Padlet with a wealth of quick and easy ideas
Upcoming Design Lab Nights
Phoneme dictation involves a student writing down the individual sounds (phonemes) of a word after it's spoken, while syllable dictation involves a student writing down the larger sound units (syllables) of a word. Both are forms of auditory-to-written activities that build phonemic awareness and syllable awareness, skills crucial for reading and spelling. Syllable dictation often uses techniques like "clapping" or "tapping" to segment words into syllables before writing, whereas phoneme dictation requires deeper phonemic segmentation of words into individual sounds. Think Heggerty!