Adding Variety to Students’ Writing

Spice Up Their Writing- Easily! Believe it or not, there is a simple way to add some spice to your students’ papers.  With a bit of variety and details, even the most basic paper can come to life.  Teach these techniques prior to planning and writing papers or as you proofread a paper together.  Stop [...]

The Secret to Decoding Basic Word Problems

There comes a time in a student’s life when a dreaded thing happens to their math assignments… the numbers start getting overrun by words!  There are words everywhere and numbers hiding here and there.  Ahh! While word problems can be intimidating to any typical student, they can seem downright impossible to figure out for the student [...]

All this and data too?

With a long list of goals, short attention spans, and a wide range of behaviors to deal with, do you ever feel like you just don’t have time for keeping track of data in your sessions?  If so, try some of these ideas.  They aren’t rocket science.  They are actually quite simple- and that’s what [...]

Sam the Snake- A friendly little therapy helper

Who is Sam? “Ssssam” is my new best friend for working on the “s” sound with children.  He is simply a sock puppet that I made with my sons and recently took to work.  And he was a hit!   What do you do with Sam? I use Sam is different ways depending on the [...]