This week I released my first iPhone/iPad app, Reading Remedies, which helps to diagnose reading difficulties and support beginning readers. I hope it will be of use to teachers and especially parents. The app gives assessments in each of six reading areas (rhyming, blending, segmenting, sight words, fluency, and word attack) and then provides follow-up …
Category: Sight Words
Beginning of the Year Pre-Assessments
Here are a few tools to use when assessing students at the beginning of the year: The Basic Phonics Skills Test (BPST) This is helpful in identifying specific areas of phonics need (short vowels, long vowels, digraphs, etc.) San Diego Quick Assessment It’s also important to know students’ knowledge of sight words which is an …
Happy Thanksgiving!
Blogging will return 11/26. Enjoy your turkey.
Teaching Sight Words
The Sight Word Turtles are located here and are available for kindergarten and first grade. They are aligned with the Open Court decodable books. The Turtles are a way of organizing high frequency words to make them fun for students. For teachers, they can be used to assess student knowledge of sight words. For example, …