Teaching Tools to Reach Struggling Readers
Hi, I’m Tammy and I’m so glad you’re here. This is the place to discover fun, time-saving teaching activities and tips for struggling readers based on the science of reading. Find multisensory reading printables, digital task cards, crafts, educational games, and freebies. You can get the tools that I’ve used for over 20 years to move readers from struggling to successful.
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Children's Books to Help Teach Social-Emotional Growth
Dusty and Danny Tackle Dyslexia
Join Dusty and Danny on a humorous adventure as they learn to train their brains, understand dyslexia, and tackle their learning challenges. This book will help your students develop a positive mindset toward learning while also encouraging kindness.
Find out more abut how Dusty can help your students and get teaching resources at www.DustytheDog.com
Dusty’s
Big Oops
by Tammy Fortune, Illustrated by Pieter Els and Nika Pieterse
Dusty is looking forward to his big day at school with Danny, but it didn’t turn out quite like he had hoped. Dusty’s tail-wagging mishap leads to a series of crazy classroom happenings. Oops! This book will help kids learn that mistakes are ok and mistakes are a chance to learn and grow.
Alpacas Don’t Get Angry
By Tammy Fortune, Illustrated by Joanna Jarc Robinson
Apollo the alpaca loved to run and play! Until Lucy Llama caused some drama one day. Apollo felt SO angry! His anger grew and grew! Then the farmer helped him out – YOU can learn his trick, too! This fun rhyming story will help kids learn practical ways to manage strong emotions, like anger. Find out more about how you can use this book with your students at Apollo the alpaca’s page.
Dusty and Friends Activity Book
By Tammy Fortune, Illustrated by Pieter Els and Nika Pieterse
Fans of the rollicking picture book Dusty’s Big Oops! will be delighted to revisit the book’s friendly characters in this 63-page activity and coloring book designed to promote themes of friendship and social skills through fun and informative coloring pages and activities.
Also available as a digital download.
Boom Digital Task Cards
What are they?
No, they are not exploding cards, but they are dynamite! Boom Cards are digital, self- grading task cards that are gamified for students. They are like mini educational apps, developed by teachers, that can be played on any device with a modern browser and internet connection.
Why use them?
They are interactive, paperless, no-prep, super fun, and can go anywhere. As a bonus, teachers get data on mastery. A win for teachers, parents, and students. Read more to find out more about these explosive digital learning resources.
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If you’re looking for a fun and effective way to improve spelling skills, look no further than the Spelling Rules Bundle. This comprehensive package includes 20 sets of multi-sensory activities, games, interactive notebooks, and digital task cards covering 11 different spelling rules.
Letter Reversal
Activities
The Reverse It Resource Binder includes over 60 visual discrimination activities for the letters b,d,p,q, and g to help beginning readers and students with dyslexia who often reverse or confuse letters.
See Best Selling Classroom Decor
Is your classroom ready for back-to-school success? This free Guide to Classroom Decor and Classroom Organization will help you get it all setup! From checklists for decor and supplies, to tips on classroom set-up and how to use your space effectively, this guide has everything you need. Plus, It has a catalog of classroom decor themes and resources.
Syllable Stories
Syllable Stories is a series of 6 short stories that introduce kids to the six syllable types in a fun, engaging and memorable way. Each story features one of the syllable types, and follows the adventures of the characters as they learn about and ultimately master that particular type.
Syllable Division Connect Game and Resource Book
Two resources that teach syllable division rules and decoding multisyllable words plus a free syllable division bookmark.
Crazy Words Phonics Card Games
If you’re looking for a fun and unique way to practice phonics, Crazy Word Phonics Games is the perfect solution! These card games use nonsense words to provide practice with syllable division rules, syllable types, and decoding skills.
Decodable Welded and Glued Sound Word Family Puzzles
Are you looking for the perfect welded (glued) sound decodable word family puzzles to complement your decodable text passages? Give your students plenty of practice decoding words using these no-prep printable word search, word ladders, crack the codes, build a word puzzles, and crosswords.
Personal Sound Wall Folder and Workbook Aligned with the Science of Reading
Personal sound wall folders and worksheets are your answer to a space-saving and effective way to align your instruction with the science of reading! It’s full of mouth pictures, visuals, keywords, and more to keep learning sounds engaging and meaningful. Plus, students get a personal workbook to record words for reference
Color by Code Phonics Seasonal Coloring Pages Bundle
This bundle of summer, fall, winter, spring, and back-to-school coloring pages and color-by-sound phonics worksheets give you ready-to-go, no-prep activities to keep your students learning all year.
Decodable Poems
Bundle
This bundle of summer, fall, winter, spring, and back-to-school coloring pages and color-by-sound phonics worksheets give you ready-to-go, no-prep activities to keep your students learning all year.
Spelling Rules
Bundle
Here are some fun Google Slides and PowerPoint activities to practice these tricky spelling rules, 1-1-1 doubling, changing y to i, and drop the e when adding a suffix. These 4 digital games have questions on suffix spelling rules while students collect island treasure to win the game.
Vowel Teams
Bundle
Make your long vowel team phonics word work and spelling engaging and multisensory with these worksheets, posters, games, and digital activities. Here is a comprehensive bundle of resources to teach vowel teams.
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