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Ways to develop visual discrimination skills in a kindergarten classroom

Visual discrimination skill is the most essential skill needed in kindergarten. Visual discrimination skills are necessary for learning to read and write. Here, we discuss about visual discrimination skills, their importance, and different ways to develop them. What are Visual discrimination skills? Visual discrimination skill is the ability to determine the slight differences between similar […]

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What are visual discrimination skills?

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You may come across this term many times and wonder what it is. Here we explain the technical term, with the best example. Let’s start by asking: – What are visual discrimination skills? Visual discrimination is the ability to recognize similarities and differences between shapes, sizes, colors, objects, and patterns. If you look around, everything

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Rainbow arc for special education

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Most educators usually use Rainbow Arc Mats for special education, early intervention, and occupational therapy classrooms. Undoubtedly, Rainbow Arc Mats are great for alphabet sequencing activities for dyslexic students. As I have said, it is a powerful hands-on tool for kids with special educational needs. How does rainbow arc work? Basically, a student gets a

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Orton-Gillingham Red Words

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What are Red Words? Orton-Gillingham Red Words are certain words that are phonetically irregular or non-decodable. Students have to memorize these words by heart. There are around 500 red words in English. In K-2 texts, students can find up to 200 non-decodable words. Some educators and curriculum creators call these words ‘unfair’. As these words

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What are Fry’s Sight Words

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The history of Fry words Fry’s Words is a list of 1,000 high-frequency words collected by Dr. Edward Fry back in 1957. However, this list was a version of the Dolch Words list created in the 1930s and published in 1936 for the first time. Even now, English-speaking schools around the world still use both

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My journey into creating educational resources

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Everyone’s journey in life and career is different. Once I worked at a university where I taught the Finnish language. My students were fresh school graduates, a bit younger than me at that time! Finnish is a very difficult language with massively complicated grammar (especially on advanced levels when students study complex syntax, participles, and

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