Sandie Barrie-Blackley
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Three English Suffix Spelling Patterns
There are three basic suffixing patterns in English. These patterns are listed below, with links to the Real Spelling animations that explain and illustrate each pattern: DOUBLING- Double the fin...
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Word Inquiry: It's a Structured Language Approach
INTRODUCTION FOR CLINICIANS & PARENTS Dyslexia typically disrupts reading and spelling at a word level. In contrast, language (listening) comprehension and critical thinking are typically not disru...
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Lexercise Professional Education Courses
ONLINE COURSES WHO Lexercise offers three online professional education courses designed to prepare language intervention professionals to provide structured literacy services to clients with lang...
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Lexercise Professional Education: Course 2 Objectives
For Course 2: Structured Literacy/ Orton-Gillingham for Literacy Instruction the participant will: 1) List at least four characteristics of research-backed language-literacy interventions. 2) ...
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Lexercise Professional Education: Course 1 Objectives
For Course 1: The Structure of Written English the participant will: 1) List the domains of language, from speech to print. 2) Define a syllable and explain where this unit fits into the dom...
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What is a definition?
In his Science and Education article, Daniel Willingham (2014) points out: "Kids don’t learn important information that’s right in front of them unless an adult is actively teaching them." Willing...
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English Syntax: a brief tutorial
Why do we care about syntax? Syntax is the study of the patterns that govern the way words combine to form phrases and phrases combine to form sentences. The sentence is an essential unit of meani...
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Basic English Sentence Patterns
Sentence relationships define the functions of the 8 parts of speech: nouns, verbs (including auxiliary verbs), adjectives, adverbs, articles, conjunctions, pronouns, and prepositions). Prerequi...
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Syntax Tutorial: Phrases & Clauses
Why care about sentence structures like phrases and clauses? Clauses and phrases are the two main building blocks of sentences. WHAT IS A SENTENCE? A sentence (which must have both a subject an...
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Major Syntactic Forms in English
This chart of the major syntactic forms in English may be helpful when doing an analysis of a writing sample. FORMS CATEGORIES EXAMPLE(S) noun common proper concrete abstract count no...