![]() ![]() I try to make the letters and words a background focus as we do things but I realized he was trying to decide words as I was texting my sister and he saw my phone. He is barely 2, so he can’t write any letter except O. Where do I go from here? I’m playing a lot of games and trying to keep it fun with letters and sounds. We are a big book, music, and math house. We have him at nursery school, 2 hours, 2 days a week. He now knows all the letter sounds…some words by sight….numbers 1-20 and a few others…colors…shapes…. ![]() Made a “play” sheet binder for him with Velcro. I helped him learn lowercase and uppercase. He just kept asking, “Wuz that?” We had to encourage him to use his vocabulary more. I now have a son who just turned two on Thanksgiving.Īt 1.5 yrs old, he knew all his uppercase letters. Hi! I am a former high school Math and Science teacher. I may also pair a stronger child with a weaker child so they have someone reliable to help them. I am also not having the children play games with words that are new for them, the games are more to reinforce words that they have already learned – particularly when the game is only minimally supervised. I have my assistant take the other children, or I have them do some station work that doesn’t require as much supervision. I try and get small groups of say 4 students and have them play one of the bigger games together – than way I can keep track of all of them at the same time. Sometimes students effectively correct each other, but sometimes they “correct” another student with an incorrect word! Thanks for any advice you can provide and for the excellent site. For example, I work with up to 6 students at once and I’ve been wondering how to effectively monitor responses when I have 3 different sets of students playing games. I am wondering how you manage this correction procedure when you have more than one pair of students playing a game at a time. Hello! I have found your sight word instructional procedures very helpful, especially the notes about how to most effectively correct incorrect responses. Just go to our Contact page to call or email us, and let’s talk! Reply We are always happy to discuss partnership opportunities with schools, teachers, and parents. I was disheartened yesterday after a meeting where I was told training packets for teachers could run $500 and to have a trainer come in to train could cost $3000! Can we work together to set up a training program and the training packets that the teachers/teachers aids would need. But the #1 Priority to offer free or inexpensive tools to help train teachers or teacher’s aides. ![]() Bob Berk that started a charter school in New Orleans that has dedicated 20% of enrollment to dyslexia (problem based learning) are now working on a nonprofit called Billy’s Quest from a song I wrote about being dyslexic called “Billy.” The mission is to bring Awareness and changing the perception of dyslexia. I with the help of a former school teacher and Dr. I created a website to help others find their “Gift” that I have found. I didn’t find out until later in life I was dyslexic, but when I finally realized the reasons why. ![]()
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