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My Favorite Things as a Literacy Specialist
The literacy materials I actually use in therapy week after week — the ones that earn their spot in my therapy bag.
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Practical literacy, written for SLPs.
Strategies, spelling rules, materials, and the everyday lessons I've learned working with struggling readers — grounded in the Science of Reading and Orton-Gillingham.
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The Change Y to I Rule: What It Is and How to Teach It
One of the three major suffixing rules in English — the logic behind it, the one exception, and how to teach it explicitly.
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The Drop E Rule: What It Is and How to Teach It
The silent e does a lot of heavy lifting in English — until you start adding suffixes. Here's the rule, the logic, and how to teach it.
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The Doubling Rule: What It Is and How to Teach It
The 1-1-1 rule that doubles consonants before vowel suffixes — and the reason it actually exists. The third major suffixing rule, explained.
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a, e, i, o, u — and Oftentimes Y
When is Y a vowel and when is it a consonant? A closer look at the letter that breaks the rules — plus a memory trick that actually works.
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One-Syllable Spelling Generalizations
Three powerful spelling rules — -k vs. -ck, -ch vs. -tch, and -ge vs. -dge — that take the guesswork out of one-syllable word endings.
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