Literacy

This site offers a variety of instructional strategies you can add to your "toolbox" when teaching reading and writing to your students with disabilites.

Norms for Oral Reading Fluency (ORF)

Alexander, Who Used to Be Rich Last Sunday

Enjoy listening to Chasity read aloud the story of Alexander, who used to be rich....last Sunday. Doug joins her to provide insights on social emotional well-being, as well as, strategies and tips that will assist students in their daily living skills.

Phonological Awareness Series

Mini-modules for using the PAST assessment and examples of activities for each subskill of phonological awareness.

Administering the PAST assessment

Concept of Spoken Word

Rhyme Recognition and Production

Syllable Segmentation

Syllable Deletion

Phoneme Isolation

Phoneme Segmentation and Blending

Phoneme Deletion

Adding Phonemes

Phoneme substitution of initial sounds

Vocabulary Series

Mini-modules to select and teach vocabulary words

Guidelines for selecting vocabulary words

Using a word map graphic organizer to teach vocabulary words

Exploring embedded roots, prefixes, and suffixes

Writing Series

Mini-modules to identify the characteristics of a specific learning disability in Written Expression, how to determine the area of need, and strategies to teach writing skills.