As A Busy SPED Teacher...I Need Quick and Effective Reading Activities!

Get ready to rev up your teaching with Turbocharge: Crash Course Reading Activities! This dynamic guide is designed to equip educators with a toolkit of high-impact strategies and engaging activities to enhance literacy skills in the classroom. Perfect for today's busy teachers, we'll dive into a variety of innovative reading activities that are both effective and efficient. From multisensory approaches to interactive lessons, you'll learn how to ignite a passion for reading while maximizing student learning. Discover how to turbocharge your teaching with these essential reading activities!

Early Syllable Recognition

Starting with the basics is crucial. Syllable recognition in compound words helps students blend and manipulate syllables, a foundational skill for reading. This activity tests students' ability to hear and blend syllable parts without using print or letters, ensuring they grasp basic reading tasks.

Key Questions:

• Can they blend two syllables to form a compound word?

• Can they manipulate syllables by removing an initial or ending part?

Sound Box Chip Work

Sound boxes are a versatile tool that spans the entire phonics spectrum. By using colored tiles or chips to represent phonics sounds, students can visually connect how letters represent sounds. Follow the phonics sequence of skills to ensure mastery of basic tasks before moving to complex patterns.

Materials Needed:

• Elkon or Sound Box visual

• Colored tiles or chips

Elkonin Boxes to the Next Level

Elkonin boxes are excellent for various reading tasks such as spelling patterns, phonics segmenting, and word families. Students quickly learn the drill, allowing more focus on the skill rather than the procedure.

Activities:

• Spelling patterns

• Phonics segmenting

• Word families

Dictation Map Outs

Dictation map outs are great for beginning writers. This scaffold helps students identify words in a sentence, keep track of written words, and practice basic punctuation.

Steps:

1. Find a sentence to model.

2. Say the sentence aloud; students count the words.

3. Students write a line for each word, starting with a capital letter.

4. Dictate the sentence again for students to match words to lines.

5. Prompt for proper ending punctuation.

Articulation Modeling

Explicitly teaching articulation cues can significantly impact reading progress. Collaborate with a Speech Pathologist to learn about tongue placement, articulation of sounds, and other techniques.

Multisensory Integration

Incorporate multisensory techniques to engage diverse learning styles and maximize student engagement. Activities like hopscotch, Twister, and Playdough can make learning fun and dynamic.

Activities:

• Hopscotch

• Twister

• Dot lights

• Playdough

• Chip Kits

• Velcro dots

• Bubble poppers

• Theraputty

• Word map paddles

• Stop light colors

The Power of Reading for Enjoyment

Encourage reading for enjoyment by collaborating with your librarian and allowing students to choose books that interest them. This fosters a love for reading and improves literacy skills.

How About Some Tutorials & Modeling?

By incorporating these high-impact strategies and engaging activities, you can turbocharge your teaching and enhance literacy skills in your classroom. From early syllable recognition to multisensory integration and reading for enjoyment, these methods are designed to ignite a passion for reading in

your students while maximizing their learning potential. All are housed in the Turbocharge: Crash Course - easy and quick tutorials you can use right now! Happy teaching!

For more resources and ideas, check out The Exceptional Space Turbocharge: Crash Course. Happy reading!