Reaching Struggling Learners
Reaching Struggling Learners is dedicated to helping teachers, parents, and administrators assist all students in meeting their learning potential. We discuss topics related to education, especially helping struggling or non-standard learners including students with special needs. We discuss the educational issues and present possible strategies or solutions.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 15 minutes
- Episodes
- 93
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2024
#53 What are Achievement Gaps?
In education we talk a lot about achievement or learning gaps, but what is this really? And is it really that important for teachers to understand? Today we are going to talk about achi…
#52 Progress Monitoring Fixes Achievement Gaps
Hi! Welcome back! I’ve taken a few weeks off to just get caught up on things and try to enjoy a bit of summer before I jump back into helping my friends set up classrooms and behavior m…
#51 Onset-Rime
Welcome to our final episode in our phonological awareness series….Onset-Rime! We have been talking about phonological awareness and phonemic awareness for a while now, and I hope that …
#50 Rhyme and Alliteration
Teaching students to identify rhyming words is a piece of what goes on in lower elementary grades, but do any of us really know why that is an important skill to learn? Today, let’s tal…
#49 Take a Break and Laugh With Me
This year has been harsh...and I need a break. If you need a break, take a listen while I tell a story about my favorite restaurant and an unfortunate Publix trip....
Warning...this epis…
#48 Counting Syllables in Words
When students read in class, do they struggle with pronouncing words correctly? I don’t mean articulation errors….as in the students have a really hard time saying s specific sound….I m…
#47 Phonological Skills: Words in Sentences
How many times have you read a student’s writing and wondered where all the other words were? As in, connecting words were missing, or things like that. What about when looking at their…
#46 What is Phonological Awareness????
Many students who are struggling in school have weak phonological awareness skills. Phonological awareness is a big concept that includes many skills that kids need before they get into…
#45 Manipulating Phonemes
Kindergarten and first grade teachers know the pain with this skill set. If you aren’t a lower grades teacher, just know that one of the skills that these teachers have to teach is aski…
#44 Beginning, Middle, and Ending Sounds
Ok, so disclaimer...we aren’t just going to be talking about beginning sounds...but so many of us just focus on that skill, that I figured I’d use it to grab your attention.
The fact is,…
#43 Segmenting Phonemes
A few months ago, this student was unable to sound out words. He was completely reliant on a word bank to communicate through writing anything other than basic sight words he had memori…
#42 5 Steps to Blending Phonemes
Two years ago, I sat in an MTSS meeting with a wonderful kindergarten teacher who was working her tail off to teach her students how to read. Her class overall was pretty low coming int…
#41 What is Phonemic Awareness?
Do you think of phonemic awareness as baby skills? Or skills that are too easy for your students, who REALLY need to focus on real reading skills like phonics?
So many schools put their…
#40 Drilling Down to the Basics to Support Students
There are so many students struggling in schools now. According to the NAEP only about 40% of students are reading on grade level in 4th or 8th grade. That means that students are overw…
#39 Welcoming Learning Differences
All students learn differently….every teacher knows this...even if sometimes teachers struggle to figure out how to account for all of these differences in the classroom on a daily basi…
#38 Supporting Students with a Trauma History
Trauma is a very real issue in classrooms today. It affects behavior management, classroom community, and the academics of students experiencing trauma. While teachers are NOT qualified…
#37 How to Build Strong Relationships in the Classroom
We all know that building strong relationships with our students is an important part of helping them progress throughout the school year, but sometimes that understanding gets lost in …
#36 The Most Important Factor in Progress
How many times have we worked with a student and wondered if the program or intervention was what was finally going to work for a student?
There are so many programs for so many differen…
#35 SEL in General Education and Special Education
Social emotional learning is a big deal right now, and will continue to be an issue for teachers and schools for a long time….so what are some ways that we can support the social emotio…
#34 Setting up a Caseload Management System
If you are a special education teacher, or for that matter, an interventionist, you know how much work it is to keep track of all of the information including goals, benchmarks, importa…