Sandie Barrie-Blackley
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retrieval practice
In the 24 January 2011 edition of EducationNews.org, John Jensen, Ph.D., writes acommentary about memory and learning. The article is worth reading. Noting a recent article in Science Magazine onli...
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Structured Literacy Intervention: What is structured about it?
Structured literacy approaches dates back to the 1930s and the collaboration of Dr. Samuel T. Orton, a neurologist, Anna Gillingham, a psychologist, and Bessie Stillman, a teacher. Together, they...
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Empower proofreading !
Instead of correcting the child's spelling for him (when he won't pay attention to it anyway).... Try this: Put a x or a check mark in the margin for each spelling error on that line. Ask h...
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How to do a spelling analysis
WHY DO A SPELLING ANALYSIS? As described in the article, Spelling Errors: What They Can Reveal About Language Processing, a spelling analysis can reveal a lot about a child's language processing. ...
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Is online professional development as effective as and onsite workshops?
Suzanne Carreker and her colleagues studied the knowledge gains of 126 teachers in two workshop delivery modes (onsite and online) for professional development in spelling instruction. The results ...
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Could a vision problem be causing my child's reading struggles?
My child reverses letters, skips words and lines and says the words are "jumping around" on the page. Should I have his eyes checked? All children should have vision screening (at school and/or at...
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Parent Brochure
Attached below is a brochure for parents. Lexercise Parent Brochure.pdf
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Process-oriented written language evaluation
Here are tools for conducting a process-oriented written language evaluation. There are two main components: I. transcription (e.g., In handwriting, letter formation, spacing, etc. and in typi...
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Analyizing spelling errors
Spelling Analysis Here is a chart that you can use to analyze a client's spelling error patterns. Although the article this approach is based on (cited below) addressed 2nd graders' spelling error...
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Treating Clients with Working Memory Impairments
Working memory (WM) refers to the ability to hold information in mind while using that information to complete a task. People who have difficulty with short term memory (STM) tasks, such as recal...