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#2258

• In your own reading classroom, do you see more of a need to spend more time on foundational skills or provide more multisensory approaches? Why? 
• What are some of your favorite strategies for teaching phonemic awareness and phonics?

[rhondajordan2012]

#2584

– In my current classroom, 25% of my students need more time practicing foundational skills because they simply do not know how to read in 3rd grade or are EL students who need more practice. Another 70% needs more multisensory approaches to cement the skills they have but are not totally permanent as yet. The other 5% are doing well because they have mastered these skills.

– Some of my favorite strategies for teaching phonemic awareness and phonics are dance and movement.

[susan.spigelmire]

#2988

I think it is great that you are incorporating dance and movement into your lessons. As a student who has ADHD I wish more teachers did this when I was growing up.

[hannahmoran2502]

#3193

Absolutely. The knowledge I grasped could help my students understand my content in more depth.
Breaking down the words using sounds and meaning could really help my students understand large words. History uses a lot of big words with a lot of meaning within them. Students being able to break down the word and remember meanings could help become more successful with reading and understanding.

[charlotte.reading]

#2976

I need some foundational skills for about 3 of my students. All my students would benefit from multisensory. I am very excited to try some of the strategies that they gave me. I am excited to use the tongue twisters! We have been doing alliteration with our cursive writing and now I can have them say them out loud as fast as they can. They will be thrilled. I am really excited to use the highlight suffixes prefixes. thanks for the ideas. We have done the fly swatter with vocabulary it it will be fun to use for reading skills.

Some of my strategies have been word games that they do coming up to the board or on their own dry erase boards. I’m looking forward to implementing different ways.
My ELL students and I do play games for learning as well. They are usually memory games, four in a row or tic tac toe 🙂

[susan.spigelmire]

#2987

It is nice to see that you are using a multi-sensory approach in a older grade, I feel most teachers 2nd and above drop this and it is very much needed especially for our ELs and Dyslexic students.

[roberta.deaso]

#3126

The tongue twisters idea is a great one. You might try the stand up, hand up Kagan technique and have students try to perform the tongue twister for their partner. They will think of it as a game. I find gamification of learning to be a great tool to help students. I always say that students will try so much harder when they are playing a game, even if the content of the game can be found on a worksheet.

[charlotte.reading]

#2977

Rhondajord, I had recently asked you your grade level. It looks like we both are teaching third. It is very different for us. I have seen since the pandemic a greater need for phonics in our grade. This has made me reach out for PD such as this to try and help my struggling readers get back on grade level.

[susan.spigelmire]

#2986

I teach Kindergarten so my entire day is surrounded by foundational skills. I provide a lot of multi-sensory approaches to learning as I am Orton gillingham trained. I know that young students learn best though hands=on experiences which is why I provide them.
For Phonemic Awareness I use Heggerty which incorporates a lot of hand motions. For phonics we use sand try, tactile letters, screens with crayons to write among others. I am currently working on revising how I teach HFW as I want to focus on the sounds the words make not the letters so that students can begin to orthographically map the word in their brain to grasp a firm knowledge of it and move it to a sight word.

[roberta.deaso]

#3127

I love the hand motions for Heggerty. I find that the techniques they use, like the roller coaster method for finding middle sounds, can really help students later when they are trying to sound out a word and spell it. I think that bringing in those techniques during writing time, or even social studies/science, can really help them learn to spell and recognize word patterns faster.

[roberta.deaso]

#3125

In your own reading classroom, do you see more of a need to spend more time on foundational skills or to provide more multisensory approaches? Why?

I teach Kindergarten, so I feel like there is a need to provide both at the same time. I try to repeatedly review what we have learned in a multisensory way. Students will forget the foundational skills they have learned, if they are not practiced consistently, especially in Kindergarten, where they are learning how to learn.

What are some of your favorite strategies for teaching phonemic awareness and phonics?

I use Heggerty, dance and movement, playdoh, and other fun activities to help students learn. I also incorporate games as often as possible.

[williwoodz]

#3184

These last couple of years I have noticed a greater need for foundational skills as many students did not do well with online learning. Favorite strategies include play dough, movement, and hand motions.

[williwoodz]

#3185

I agree that movement is essential for our ADHD population and our littles need to wiggle.

[hannahmoran2502]

#3194

I agree! Great response

[williwoodz]

#3186

I have used tongue twisters in these past with older students. They love it!

[hannahmoran2502]

#3195

I understand where you are coming from. Great response.

[hannahmoran2502]

#3196

There are a lot of things that I learned that I did not think I could use in my classroom but I can. I know I teach high schoolers but thinking outside of the box and figuring out how I can use these strategies to help my kids understand better I think would be cool.

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