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Just the facts⤵️ Second grade is the year whe Just the facts⤵️ Second grade is the year when children start to see that they are “behind.” They have figured out who can read chapter books easily when they can barely sound out The Cat in the Hat. But it doesn’t have to impact self-esteem. They have a parent like you in their corner. And you have me! 👋Hi! I am Anne, a former reading intervention teacher now in private practice. I taught 2nd grade for 8 years, too, and I noticed my daughter’s dyslexia signs when she was a second grader. 💪I want parents of second graders to know exactly what their child needs to be able to do by the end of the year because you are their best advocate. ❌And it’s not that the teacher doesn’t want to help. It’s that there is so much to cover in a 15 minute conference! 1️⃣ Fluency Your child should start 2nd grade reading about 40 words in a minute and end around 80 words. This isn’t about fast reading. Fluency increases comprehension - your child’s ability to understand what they are reading. And this depends on automatically sounding out words like these skills ⬇️ 2️⃣Long vowel teams Your child can read and spell words with these several of these vowel combinations: ai, ay, ee, ea, igh, ie, ow, oe, oa, ue, ew Example: Your child can read and spell the words seed, beach, mail, and pay. 3️⃣ Bossy R Words They are also called R Controlled. Your child can read and spell these letter combinations: ar, er, ir, or, ur Some examples are cart, herd, firm, born, and turt. 4️⃣ Two syllable words Your child has strategies or word attack skills to sound out two syllable words. For example, your child can read and spell words like muffin, cupcake, reptile, hippo, brainstorm, and monster. 5️⃣ Suffixes Your child has strategies to read and spell words with common suffixes like -s, -es, -ed, and -ing. Examples include: Foxes jumped stomping —- If you want a printable list of 16 important 2nd grade reading skills, comment SECOND. My friendly Printables Bot will DM you the link. But make sure to follow first and check your spam DMs. If it’s not there, you might need to DM me first. #secondgrade #secondgradereading #strugglingreaders #dyslexiamom
The mistake I made⤵️ Listening to what the sc The mistake I made⤵️ Listening to what the school was telling me: “Just have her write MORE.” That got us nowhere other than tears and tantrums. $3000 of private learning evaluations later, my daughter was diagnosed with dyslexia and dysgraphia. In 5-10 minutes most days, her writing went from illegible to impressive. This is how: 💡Step 1: Practice spelling sounds by themselves. This is where the a-ha comes in for kids! Say: write the letter that spells the sound /t/. Your child should write down letter t. This improves handwriting too. Your child will become more automatic with the sound so letter formation is easier too. Step 2: once your child can spell about 6-10 sounds easily, use those to make 3-4 sound words. 🤔 This is where real growth happens and children start to store word patterns permanently. So if your child can spell the sounds a, s, t, p, n, i, ask them to spell sit, nap, and tin. If that’s okay, spell words like spin, past, and taps. Add more basic letter sounds, and continue to spell words. Then introduce more complex sound-spellings like ch, th, wh, and ck. Step 3: Dictate sentences. 💫 This is where the magic comes in. You give your child a sentence to spell using words and patterns you know they’ve learned. You say: Write down this sentence. The cat ran past the dog. Children learn so much from this: spelling, sentence structure, and capitals and punctuation. ➡️ And it really only takes 5-10 minutes most days. I’ve done the hard work and created sounds, words, and sentence lists plus tips and tons of spelling dictation templates. Comment SPELLING and I’ll send you the link for this resource in my shop. #spellingtest #learntospell #learntoread #learntowrite #dyslexiamom
No one taught us this 🤯 I certainly didn’t u No one taught us this 🤯 I certainly didn’t understand it until my own child was diagnosed with dyslexia, and I had to learn how to help her at home. ✨I’m breaking down how to sound out words so you can break your child’s guessing habit. Did you know the letter A doesn’t just have one sound?! ➡️ Short A: /ă/ like in apple 🍎 ➡️ Long A: /ā/ like in cake 🎂 ➡️ Schwa: /uh/ like in sofa 🛋️ ➡️ Broad A: /aw/ like in water 💧 Some of these sounds even vary by dialect in regions! So how do you teach your child this? 🪜Step-by-step. 1️⃣ get some index cards 2️⃣ write lowercase a on one. 3️⃣ show your child the card and practice making the short a sound. 4️⃣ once they’ve mastered that, then you can introduce the long a sound. 5️⃣ then introduce the remaining sounds one a time 🛑 this is not an overnight process. This is step-by-step a few minutes of daily practice over the course of months for all beginning and struggling readers. ✅ the first step is for you to understand the 44 sounds in English. Comment LIST and I’ll DM you the link to a pdf. But make sure you hit that follow button first! Let’s make reading feel possible, not painful. I’ll help you. 💪📚 #sounditout #phonics #learntoread
No gatekeeping here⤵️ Hi, I’m Anne. I’m a No gatekeeping here⤵️ Hi, I’m Anne. I’m a former kindergarten reading intervention teacher now in private practice as a reading specialist. I’m also mom to three. I want parents of kindergarteners to know exactly what their child needs to be able to do by the end of the year. Your child’s school will probably teach more skills than this, but these are the core skills: 1️⃣ Letters Believe it or not, knowing the letter names is just as important as knowing the letter sounds. Research has shown this time and again. It is important for spelling but it’s also because most letter names have the sound embedded. Say B. Do you hear the sound /b/? 2️⃣ Sounds Your child needs to see a letter, and say the basic sound immediately. If they are thinking, it’s not automatic and they need more practice. 3️⃣ Handwriting The ability to write letters easily is linked to being able to read and spell letters and sounds. Just practice one letter at a time at first. Once your child knows a few, start to include a review of the learned letters each day. 4️⃣ First sound By the end of kindergarten, your child needs to be able to hear the first sound in a word easily. This skill is called phonemic awareness. It turns out that hearing sounds is super important for reading! 5️⃣CVC words This is probably what you think of as kindergarten reading. But it really depends on mastery of these steps above. Your child is able to blends the sounds together to read words like can, did, and hop. —— Want a free printable checklist of the 16 skills that are most important for kindergarten reading? Comment KINDER #learntoread #strugglingreaders #dyslexia #kindergartenmom #kindergartenreading
Does this sound like you?⤵️ ✅You tried to p Does this sound like you?⤵️ ✅You tried to put on a brave face during the parent teacher conference, but you were really holding back tears. ✅ You asked for ways to help your child and the advice was a vague “just keep reading with them.” ✅ You already knew there was something going on, but feel helpless about helping? 🩷I got you! 👋I’m Anne, and I’m mom to a former struggling reader. We know she’s dyslexic now, but it’s not the battle it once was when she was in first grade. Now in 7th grade she asked for books for birthday. ✨There are two important thing you can do with your first grader. 1️⃣Change your child experience of reading time. Ditch the book, and try playing games. 2️⃣Work on phonics skills. 80% of schools still aren’t doing enough. Your child needs more than a sprinkling of phonics. They need way more repetition than you’d think and than school is giving them. Comment SAMPLE and my handy Printables Bot will send you the link to five free phonics games you can print and try to today. Make sure you are following me and check your hidden DMs. The five free games have aa variety of skills so you can find which one is closest to “just right” for your child. Just take this first step. I will help you! #learntoread #strugglingreaders #firstgrade grade
First grade is the year⬇️ I don’t want to s First grade is the year⬇️ I don’t want to scare you, but 90% of the children who struggle to read at the end of 1st grade will continue to struggle in fourth*. But there is good news. I’m going to tell you exactly what to work on so your child is in the 10% who does master reading. 👋 Hi, I’m Anne. A former teacher in private practice as a reading specialist. I made this career shift after I noticed my own daughter was struggling to learn to read and write in first grade and the school wasn’t giving her the intervention she needed. I started this account to make sure no parent feels as powerless as I did. You can work on these skills with your child: 1️⃣ Consonant blends Your first grader can read and spell words like slug, mint, & stamp. Consonant blends are letter combinations like -st -cl -mp -nd They can be tricky for some beginning and struggling readers because blend words have 4-5 sounds instead of just three. 2️⃣ Read and spell consonant digraphs. Your first grader can read and spell words like fish, whack, math, chomp. Digraphs can be tricky for first graders and struggling readers because two letters represent one sound for the first time. Digraphs include: ✅sh ✅ th ✅ ch ✅ -ck ✅ -ng 3️⃣ Two syllable words Your child has strategies or word attack skills to sound out two syllable words. Your first grade child can read and spell words like muffin, sunfish, standstill, plastic, and hundred. 4️⃣ Reading fluency By the end of first grade, your child should be able to read about 40 words from a grade level story in one minute. This isn’t about reading fast. This type of rate is correlated to reading comprehension. Children are able to sound out words quickly and easily enough so they can concentrate on meaning. Want a free checklist for first grade? Make sure to follow first and then comment FIRST and I’ll DM you the link. Make sure to check your hidden messages for the link. (*source: Reading Rockets summarizes the research nicely in their blog post “Waiting Rarely Works”). #learntoread #strugglingreaders #firstgrade #firstgradereading
Moms ask for this ⬇️ If your child’s soundi Moms ask for this ⬇️ If your child’s sounding out words but still needs extra practice, these Phonics Simple Sheets are a game-changer! ✅ Ready-to-use word lists ✅ Perfect for busy parents ✅ Use toys and supplies you already have Here’s your plan: ✍️Monday: put your sheet in a dryer erase sleeve and mark off with a dry erase marker. 🦖Tuesday: use dinosaurs or other little action figures to cover each word 🧱Wednesday: cover with Legos or other little bricks and then let your child build something as a play break. 🎲 Thursday: give your child a dice, have them roll, and then they read that number of words. 🌀Friday is your review day. Grab a list from a prior week to play with using any ideas above. For less than a pizza, you can tutor your own child at home. Comment SHEETS and I’ll send you the link! 💕 Make sure you’re following me and check your hidden messages. #phonicsforkids #learntoread #readingtutor #teachyourchildtoread

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