Sandie Barrie-Blackley
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The Mind's Eye™: Mindfully Improving Language Comprehension & Expression
This is a brief description of the Lexercise's Mind's Eye™ curriculum, which is part of the Lexercise teletherapy platform. Lexercise therapists use the Mind's Eye™ curriculum to help improve the s...
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Read Aloud to Your Child
We know that reading aloud to a child is the single most important thing a parent can do to help the child prepare for reading and learning (Becoming a Nation of Readers, 1985). Reading aloud to...
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How to Teach Longer, More Complex Words
After third grade students increasingly need to read, spell and understand longer, complex words. Here is research-based guidelines for how to teach longer, more complex words: 1) Longer words (i....
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Strategies for learning math facts
Children with language processing problems often have difficulty with the language of math. They may have difficulty interpreting math "word problems" and/or with memorizing basic math facts such ...
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NC DPI Summer Study Institute 7-24-13
Attached below are the Power Point slides and the handout for Sandie's day-long workshop on 7-24-13 for the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction's Summer Study Institute: Language-Liter...
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Spelling Errors: What They Can Reveal About Language Processing
Learning to spell words is more difficult that learning to read them. Spelling requires not just word recognition but application of a complex network of knowledge that includes the word’s meani...
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Visual-Graphic Organizers: mind-maps for thinking & writing
Terminology Modes – the purpose for writing (e.g., narrative, expository, persuasive) Genres – categories of writing (e.g., travel, book review, biography) Formats – the structures of writing...
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Graphic Organizer: first person narrative
First Person Narrative: Graphic Organizer Your purpose for writing is to tell about something that happened to you or someone you know. The backbone is the “reporter” structure (who, what, whe...
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Graphic Organizer: compare & contrast
Compare & Contrast: Graphic Organizer Your purpose for writing is to tell how two or more things or events are 1) alike (compare) and 2) different (contrast). Use the chart below to clarify yo...
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Graphic Organizer: how-to
How-to: Graphic Organizer Your purpose for writing is to explain or describe how to do something. Use the chart below to clarify your thinking about the structure of a how-to essay. Title_____...