Pounding and fingertapping are essential skills for beginning or struggling spellers. Many teachers use the pounding and fingertapping hands available in the Brainspring Members Area. Make it Multisen … read more

Looking for a fun way to review multiple skills? I recently tried this activity with a student who demonstrated a bit of a summer slide. It was evident he needed to review more before moving on in the … read more

For many students, their struggle to read has made them feel self-conscious or even like a failure. They don’t understand why reading seems to come so easy to their peers and why they can’ … read more

Today, we are going to practice spelling with -tch. This is a tricky concept because the ‘t’ is silent, so you can only hear the /ch/sound! Let’s practice -tch with a game called Cat … read more

This week we feature the next basic component of an Orton-Gillingham lesson plan, the spelling of dictation words. We recently posted on how to introduce and conduct a multisensory activity. In case y … read more

The vowel team ‘oe’ gets fancy in this multisensory activity! Just like your toes are at the end of your feet, the vowel team -oe is found at the end of a word. If feet creep you out, this … read more