When and How to Help Struggling Readers Improve Phonemic Awareness

Sometimes, no matter how hard you try, all your efforts to provide successful reading intervention fail.  You know, the kind of reading intervention that truly helps struggling readers read.  Maybe you already help improve phonemic awareness, but you don’t know why your reader continues to struggle.   If you work with a struggling reader at …

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Printable Grid Maze for Kids: Track and Color the Party Hats

You don’t need any excuse to enjoy this printable grid maze for kids. However, what better activity to help kids celebrate than one that includes… party hats!   Offer this Grid Maze: Track and Color the Party Hats when children celebrate a birthday, or New Year’s Day, or even when you wish to recognize and …

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Holiday Printable Activities for Kids – The Ultimate Roundup

For kids who love their brains, and for parents and teachers who love their kids, I have a holiday activity roundup that you won’t want to miss.  Unless otherwise stated, all of the holiday printable activities listed below live inside The Free Printables Collection.  Translation: They’re free!     For access to The Free Printables …

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Digital Practice Activities for Reading Intervention

Have you discovered the reading intervention program called Letter Sounds Made Simple?  If yes, keep reading.  If not, I invite you to start here: Letter Recognition for Struggling Readers.  You’ll learn why this easy-to-implement, multisensory program is so simple yet so effective.   I especially encourage the helpers of learners who either: Have dyslexia Have …

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A Legal Victory for Dyslexia Intervention in Public School, Maybe – Part 1

Could a lawsuit lead to real change for dyslexia intervention in public school?  For at least one California school district, it might.  This year (2021) a federal class action lawsuit against Berkeley Unified School District not only ended with a settlement; it required some significant, district-wide changes.     In the past I’ve encouraged parents …

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The Visual Memory Piece of Reading Intervention Goes Digital

When you think of reading intervention activities for kids, I’m guessing visual memory training is probably not the first thing you think of. Perhaps you believe working with letters is more important for reading intervention than working with, oh, let’s say… colors. That’s a perfectly reasonable assumption. Here at Inner Pieces Gallery I talk a …

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