Cueing Students to Observe Punctuation Marks
What a difference punctuation makes. Every grandmother is thankful for the tiny comma in the following sentence, “Let’s eat, Grandma.”...
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Cindy Hall
- Aug 25
- 3 min
Spelling List Practice Strategies
With a new school year, comes new weekly spelling words to learn. For mainstream learners, weekly spelling lists are an effective way to...
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Cindy Hall
- Aug 25
- 4 min
Building Skilled Writers Step-by-Step: The Paragraph
Last month’s writing focus was on writing single sentences. This month we move on to writing a paragraph. A paragraph planning...
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Cindy Hall
- Jul 26
- 3 min
Student Dossiers: Introducing Your Child to a New Teacher/Understanding Your New Students
Both parents and teachers work hard on many tasks at the beginning of each school year. A high-priority task for both sides of the...
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Cindy Hall
- Jul 26
- 4 min
Building Skilled Writers Step-by-Step: The Sentence
For the child who struggles with expressing themself on paper, the barriers to filling the lines on a blank sheet of paper may feel...
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Cindy Hall
- Jul 26
- 3 min
Ten Homework Habits to Cultivate for the New School Year
With the new school year comes new opportunities to evaluate what went well last school year, and what areas could use some improvement....
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Cindy Hall
- Jul 26
- 2 min
August Educator’s Reading List
I hope you devoured at least one of the books on the July reading list. Whether you picked up a copy of Miss Pell Never Misspells, went...
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Cindy Hall
- Jun 28
- 2 min
Crossing a Finish Line
Completing any big task is exciting. The thrill of putting one’s entire effort into crossing a finish line and then stepping across it...
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Cindy Hall
- Jun 28
- 2 min
Why Is Writing a Struggle for a Person with Dyslexia?
A complex diagnosis Dyslexia is a very individualized condition. The severity goes from mild to severe, and within those bands, there...
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Cindy Hall
- Jun 28
- 2 min
July Educator’s Reading List
July seems to be a month made for reading. The first crazy weeks of summer break are past, and the household has settled into a summer...
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Cindy Hall
- Jun 28
- 3 min
Accommodations
Summer is a great time to think about what worked and what didn’t work last school year. Teachers, parents, and students can all take...
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Cindy Hall
- May 23
- 2 min
June Educator’s Reading List
Summer is a great time for educators (and interested parents) to read a few deep-dive books on topics related to dyslexia. Here are a...
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Cindy Hall
- May 23
- 3 min
Boredom Busters (that secretly promote language enrichment)
Ball Park Words It is surprising to children that special vocabulary exists just for baseball. You could introduce the word, “jargon,”...
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Cindy Hall
- Apr 25
- 3 min
Tye's Success Story
Tye’s bright smile and winning ways make him a favorite with everyone he meets. Tye is the fourth of five siblings and had his mom’s...
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Cindy Hall
- Apr 25
- 3 min
What is a Dyslexia Friendly Classroom Summit?
The role of the classroom teacher looms large in the lives of the students who fill the desks of his or her classroom for the 180 school...
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Cindy Hall
- Apr 25
- 3 min
Is Teaching Cursive Writing Worth the Time?
We live in a time where the art of cursive writing is frequently set aside with the disclaimer that it is too time consuming to teach....
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Cindy Hall
- Mar 20
- 3 min
How to Find a Tutor for Your Dyslexic Child
In this month’s Student Story, you read about how getting tutoring from Mrs. K was a huge turning point for Luke. In the story, it is...
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Cindy Hall
- Mar 20
- 4 min
Luke's Story
A student who is his high school drama productions’ leading man, a frequent soloist in concerts, and the bowling team’s leadoff man must...
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huntsvilletutoring
- Feb 27
- 1 min
Hearing voices can help with spelling!
“Spelling, oh no!” That is the reaction many dyslexic students have toward spelling. Correct spelling often lags behind improved reading...
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huntsvilletutoring
- Feb 27
- 2 min
Spring Parent/Teacher Conferences
March frequently finds parents sitting nervously on benches in the school foyer, and teachers smoothing out the damage a morning with...
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