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Woburn, Massachusetts, United States
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I have been working in the field of Special Education for almost 20 years. My specialty is working with students with dyslexia and language based learning disabilities. I've been an Orton-Gillingham practitioner at the associate level for almost two decades and incorporate that training into everything I do as a teacher.
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FREE Midwest US Region Flash Cards - States, Capitals, Abbreviations
Here is my latest group of resources for states and capitals - the midwest region! This FREE resource includes the twelve states of the Midwestern part of the US: Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Missouri, Iowa, Minnesota, Kansas, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota. There are three kinds of cards for each state. The first kind includes a picture of the state and its name. The second includes the state capital name. Lastly, there is a set for the state abbreviation
4th - 6th
Geography
FREE Southeast US Region Flash Cards - States, Capitals, Abbreviations
As promised, here is my second group of States and Capitals resources. This FREE resource includes the twelve states of the Southeastern part of the US: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia. There are three kinds of cards for each state. The first kind includes a picture of the state and its name. The second includes the state capital name. Lastly, there is a set for the stat
3rd - 5th
Geography
Three Sounds of Suffix ed Phonemic Awareness Board Game
Past tense verbs are complicated enough, but the suffix -ed has three sounds! This board game helps your students learn to hear the different sounds of the suffix. Its unique design focuses on phonemic awareness and metacognition. By the end of this activity, students should be better able to hear the sounds that denote the suffix and explain the following: -ed says /ĭd/ after t and d -ed says /d/ after a voiced sound-ed says /t/ after an unvoiced soundCheck out my other listings for more morp
3rd - 5th
Phonics & Phonological Awareness, Spelling
VCE + Vowel suffix -ing -ed -able -er -or -est
Cover the E to add -ING!It's an easy but important saying to remember that the silent-e keeps doing its job when a vowel suffix is added. Use this multi-sensory activity to help students visualize that the e remains when the vowel suffix is added. This is a low-prep activity. Print, cut, and fold. That's it! You will get single and multisyllabic VCE syllable words. There are three words for each specific suffix. You can use all six suffixes or teach the concept with one specific suffix. A blank
5th - 7th
Phonics & Phonological Awareness, Spelling
Subject Verb BINGO
The goal of the game is to create a logical simple sentence from a subject and verb pair. With 30 different subject cards, and 10 pre-filled BINGO boards with 24 words each, the potential for this game is immense! Most of the verbs on the pre-filled cards are Tier 2 vocabulary for 6th graders, but if that doesn't work for you, use the reproducible blank BINGO card option to have students fill in the cards with their own vocabulary words. I hope you enjoy this game as much as my students did!
5th - 7th
English Language Arts, Grammar, Vocabulary
Adding Suffix -ing Board Game and Spelling Activity
Adding inflected endings like suffix -ing can be tough. There are a lot of spelling generalizations to keep track of when teaching phonics! I use activities like this in my Orton-Gillingham lessons to add some fun while also tackling the many aspects of adding a vowel suffix to a base word. This game and spelling activity helps students learn, remember, and apply most of the guidelines for adding -ing. The words include cvc, vce, ending consonant blend, and vowel team concepts. (The only general
2nd - 6th
Phonics & Phonological Awareness, Spelling
Suffix Y vs Vowel Y - a morphology and phonics activity
Vowel Y is unusual. It functions as the spelling for three different sounds - /ē/, /ī/ and /ĭ/. It can be hard to determine when to use Vowel Y as a spelling! This activity helps with one aspect of it - identifying when Vowel Y is used as a suffix. This activity is a basic sort. Students will differentiate between “Y as a Vowel Suffix” (as in sandy, foggy) or as “Y as a Vowel NOT a Suffix” (as in penny, daisy). You can use the sort with just the sounds of /ē/ or use it with the /ī/ and /ĭ/ so
3rd - 5th
Phonics & Phonological Awareness, Spelling
Plural Spelling with -s and -es Folder Game - multiple generalizations included
Practice the complicated spelling generalizations related to plural suffixes -s and -es. This basic board game provides the base word, and the student is asked to identify specific details about the base to determine how to add the suffix. The spellings included are:words ending in s, x, ch, & shwords ending in a consonant + ywords ending in ending in a vowel + ywords ending in f or fe words ending in oThis board game DOES NOT cover irregular plurals. For other fantastic phonics and grammar act
2nd - 4th
Grammar, Phonics & Phonological Awareness, Spelling
BUNDLE 6 Consonant Blends Board Games - Phonetically Controlled
The Orton-Gillingham-based game bundle is a great value! You get SIX BOARD GAMES each covering a slight variation on consonant blends. Each game includes words that are phonetically controlled to target one specific skill. The board games include the following skills. Initial blendsFinal blendsInitial & Final blendsInitial blends with VCEInitial blends with FLSZBlends and consonant digraphsIf you don't want to buy the bundle, you can purchase the preferred game of your choice individually using
K - 3rd
Phonics & Phonological Awareness, Reading
CCVCe Board Game with Initial Consonant Blends and VCe syllable
Use this quick and easy print-and-play game to practice initial consonant blends! All of the words follow the CCVCe pattern, meaning they are all short vowel words. The entire game is phonetically controlled and aligned with Level 1 of the Orton-Gillingham scope and sequence that I was trained with. For more phonetically controlled Orton-Gillingham-based resources, visit my TPT store, PhoicsPhile. You can get this game as part of a bundle of consonant blend games, all featuring words with diff
K - 3rd
Phonics & Phonological Awareness, Reading
Spin & Spell Phonemic & Phonological Awareness Activity
If your students are having difficulty hearing the difference between short vowel sounds, this activity is perfect for them! It's created to help students use phonemic and phonological awareness skills to manipulate and segment sounds. With the segmentation of sounds, either into individual units of sound, or onset-rime, students will reinforce the proper sounds of short vowels. There are three ways to use this activity. Option 1: The student spins the spinner and identifies the vowel sound in
K - 3rd
Phonics & Phonological Awareness, Reading, Spelling
CVCC Board Game - Phonetically Controlled Final Consonant Blends w/ Short Vowel
Use this quick and easy print-and-play game to practice initial consonant blends! All of the words follow the CVCC pattern, meaning they are all short vowel words. The entire game is phonetically controlled and aligned with Level 1 of the Orton-Gillingham scope and sequence that I was trained with. For more phonetically controlled Orton-Gillingham-based resources, visit my TPT store, PhoicsPhile. You can get this game as part of a bundle of consonant blend games, all featuring words with diffe
K - 3rd
Phonics & Phonological Awareness, Reading
CCVC Board Game - Phonetically Controlled Initial Consonant Blends w Short Vowel
Use this quick and easy print-and-play game to practice initial consonant blends! All of the words follow the CCVC pattern, meaning they are all short vowel words. The entire game is phonetically controlled and aligned with Level 1 of the Orton-Gillingham scope and sequence that I was trained with. For more phonetically controlled Orton-Gillingham-based resources, visit my TPT store, PhoicsPhile. You can get this game as part of a bundle of consonant blend games, all featuring words with diff
K - 3rd
Phonics & Phonological Awareness, Reading
FREE Southwest US Region Flash Cards - States, Capitals, Abbreviations
This FREE resource includes the four states of the Southwestern part of the US: Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, and Oklahoma. There are three kinds of cards for each state. The first kind includes a picture of the state and its name. The second includes the state capital name. Lastly, there is a set for the state abbreviations. You can decide how to use these Flash Cards. You can use them to drill names and spellings or play games like Go Fish or Memory Match. Pick whatever is best for your lea
4th - 6th
Geography
FREE Northeast US Region Flash Cards - States, Capitals, Abbreviations
I don't usually venture very far from my phonics, but my oldest is learning geography in school this year. I made these to help make studying a little more fun. Hopefully, they will help your child or student too. Check back soon since she will be learning another region soon. When that happens, I'll post another set then. In the meantime, enjoy this FREE set of flashcards to drill or play games with. There are 11 states included in this set: Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts,
3rd - 5th
Geography
Capital and Lowercase Matching Game
Help your students strengthen their identification and matching of their upper and lowercase letters. For some, this skill comes easily. For others, the capital and lowercase letters look different enough - think G and g - that it takes time to build the association between the two. This game is completely based on receptive skills so there no handwriting is involved! Use this as support for a handwriting lesson, a lesson for emerging readers, or as a review activity. For other resources, pleas
PreK - 1st
English Language Arts, Handwriting, Other (ELA)
Soft and Hard Sounds of C & G - Three Game Set
There are two ways to play each of the games included in this set. The fastest and easiest way to use it as your basic print-and-play game. Roll the die, move the game piece, and read the word aloud. But, if your students are like mine and have a lot of difficulty with the concept and vocabulary of "Hard" and "Soft" sounds, use these games to practice that wording. In addition to what you see in the thumbnail pictures, you will also get word 2 sets of 12 word cards. One set has the word Hard whi
2nd - 5th
Phonics & Phonological Awareness, Reading, Spelling
y says long i
Use this quick and easy print-and-play board game to teach or reinforce the concept of using vowel y to spell the long i sound at the end of a short word (or syllable) with no other vowels. This concept is taught in Level II of Orton-Gillingham and aligns nicely with introducing the monosyllable and open syllable concepts. This game is designed to take less than five minutes and can be a great addition to your one-to-one tutoring lesson or your classroom centers. Please check out the other Or
4th - 6th
Phonics & Phonological Awareness, Spelling
A APPLE /A/ - Short A CVC Phonetically Controlled Board Game
This quick and easy print-and-play game is perfect for beginning and struggling readers! I use games like this when I first start out with my students. Sometimes, I have readers that are not ready for standard word lists, so games are a great workaround. There are about twenty-five words total in this game, so a student is bound to read at least a handful. Whether you play with a die or by flipping a coin (head = one space, tails = two spaces), your student will get good CVC exposure. For my st
PreK - 1st
Phonics & Phonological Awareness, Reading
Suffix -ing Matching Game with Pictures
Some of my private Orton-Gillingham students have had trouble with the present-tense verb suffix -ing. I found myself acting out verbs to help them understand. This worked to a degree, but eventually, after a lot of trial and error, I found that action pictures helped the most. This quick memory style matching game helps students to pair -ing words with the associated action. This resource has two sets of cards: one has pictures labeled with the specific actions, and the other is just the pictu
1st - 4th
English Language Arts, Grammar, Spelling
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About the store
Experience
I have been working in the field of Special Education for almost 20 years. My specialty is working with students with dyslexia and language based learning disabilities. I've been an Orton-Gillingham practitioner at the associate level for almost two decades and incorporate that training into everything I do as a teacher.
Teaching style
Multi-sensory: I use games in every lesson to keep things fun
Age appropriate: I ensure my materials match the age of the student. Cartoonish graphics for younger kids and more "mature" graphics for older students.
My own education history
BA in English
Masters in Special Education
Masters in Social Work
trained and certified in Orton-Gillingham
Additional biographical information
I'm dyslexic and really struggled to learn to read and spell. I was lucky enough to have creative and passionate teachers who helped me be successful academically, which eventually led me to my own path as a special education teacher/reading specialist. Even with all the support I had, I wasn't exposed to explicit phonics instruction until I learned the Orton-Gillingham method in my first job out of college. It is not an exaggeration to say that learning phonics at the age of 22 changed the trajectory of my life. I will never forget the moment I was taught that c and g have two sounds. I had made it all the way through four years of college without ever understanding this! As a result, I have made it a mission to blend my creativity and my appreciation of phonics to ensure other students have access to age-appropriate explicit phonics lessons.
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