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October is Dyslexia Awareness Month, and as an educational diagnostician, I get a LOT of questions about dyslexia. ⁠ ⁠ When diagnosing dyslexia, I like to keep it simple. There are two key things I'm looking at:⁠ ⁠ 1. What does the student's literacy
Have you ever had a student who makes great progress in literacy intervention, exits the program, and then ends up right back in intervention the following school year?⁠ ⁠ I was having a conversation about this today, and it got me thinking about som
During our last 5CCL monthly meeting, one of our educators brought up a student who was struggling to identify the main idea and summarize connected text.⁠ ⁠ But as we talked through what she was seeing, another question came up:⁠ ⁠ What is actually
One of the things I do to keep literacy intervention simple and sustainable is to follow repeatable processes, so I'm not constantly reinventing the wheel.⁠ ⁠ I always use this 4-Step Process in my literacy intervention:⁠ ⁠ 1. Review student data - I

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