Students who have difficulty seeing relationships may also have trouble drawing conclusions, making predictions or drawing inferences. Teachers can help students develop their abilities to see patterns and relationships by giving students many opportunities to classify and visualize data. Classification activities can be as simple as asking students to create a simple wheel with spokes [...]

Reading specialists have long wondered how best to help older students who struggle with reading. Should they be taught to decode by using phonics programs developed for primary children?  We all know that when students have to spend too much mental energy on decoding, that there is none left for comprehension. As a result, it [...]

Older struggling readers often do not have good strategies for deconstructing a word when they come to a word they do not recognize. Helping students understand prefixes, suffixes and affixes helps students become more “word aware” as they are reading. Explicitly teach them how to spot smaller words within more complex words and draw a [...]

Math teachers all know that in order for elementary students to become good at math operations, it is necessary for students to learn their basic facts. Just as importantly, we know that in order to become fluent readers, it is vital for students to develop their ability to recognize words “by sight.” When the brain [...]