Reading teachers share their favorite tutoring resources and teaching methods. The conversation highlights building automaticity in letter naming/keywords, handwriting difficulties and student sensitivity to correction, and using “spell it out” to support decoding, reduce reversals, and improve rereading fluency, with progress noted through UFLI lessons. They also discuss a Sara Ward course on executive functioning; sentence-composing supports like color-coded bubble maps; starting UFLI Word Origins morphology; favorite learning games; and balancing health, priorities, and professional learning through CERI and Reading Universe.
Reading teachers share their favorite tutoring resources and teaching methods. The conversation highlights building automaticity in letter naming/keywords, handwriting difficulties and student sensitivity to correction, and using “spell it out” to support decoding, reduce reversals, and improve rereading fluency, with progress noted through UFLI lessons. They also discuss a Sara Ward course on executive functioning; sentence-composing supports like color-coded bubble maps; starting UFLI Word Origins morphology; favorite learning games; and balancing health, priorities, and professional learning through CERI and Reading Universe.