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100 Powerful Learning Specialist and Educational Therapy Materials

This week I wanted to tell you about my online store, Good Sensory Learning. I’m Dr. Erica Warren, and I established this site so I could share all the materials that I have created over the last 20+ years as a learning specialist and educational therapist. When I first began my private practice, Learning to Learn, I had great difficulty finding fun and multisensory materials for my students that were effective and engaging. So back in 2005, I made it my mission to design and distribute high-end, remedial products as well as memorable, motivating lessons that bring delight to learning. If you would like to try a free sampling of my activities , CLICK HERE . How Are the Products Organized at Good Sensory Learning? You can download my Free Printable Catalog or you can browse the site using the grey “search all products” bar in the top right of any page with keywords such as dyslexia, working memory, and executive functioning. What’s more, drop down menus in the red banner allow you t...
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5 Fun Ways to Teach the Vowel Combinations or Vowel Teams



1) Place the vowel combinations on a balloon with a permanent marker, or have the students do it themselves. Pass the balloon from student to student. They will then say the first vowel combination they see and then they share the sound that it makes. In a more advanced version, they can share a word that uses that vowel combination.

2) If you are looking for something more durable than a balloon, you can purchase playground balls and write the vowel combinations on them.

3) Use old scrabble tiles. Place two tiles together to make a vowel combination and then let the students come up with as many words as they can by adding additional tiles. Write all the words down that are created into a list for all the students to see. For added fun, they can add up all the numbers on the tiles to gain points.

4) If you don’t have scrabble tiles, you can purchase small kitchen or bathroom tiles and write the letters on them with permanent markers. If you get the small, rectangular tiles, they can fit both vowel team letters on one tile.

5) Give the students a newspaper or magazine article and a highlighter. Have them highlight all the vowel combinations they can find. Then have them write all the words and as a group read the words aloud and discuss what sound the vowel combination makes in each word.

If you are looking for more fun ways to teach the vowel combinations. Come check out my downloadable workbook, Vowel Combinations Made Easy. You can even get a free sampling of the publication! Click Here

Cheers, Dr. Erica Warren
Dr. Erica Warren is the author, illustrator, and publisher of multisensory educational materials at Good Sensory Learning and Dyslexia Materials. She is also the director of Learning to Learn and Learning Specialist Courses.

· Blog: https://learningspecialistmaterials.blogspot.com/
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  1. Mrs. ArentzJanuary 17, 2013 at 2:17 PM

    Found you through classroom freebies. I love finding new ideas to try with my reading intervention groups. Thanks for sharing yours! I'm following you now, so I'll be back to visit soon. :)

    Wendy
    Read with Me ABC

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  2. Dr. Erica WarrenJanuary 19, 2013 at 12:21 AM

    Thanks Wendy!

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  3. camieJanuary 24, 2013 at 7:50 PM

    Brilliant! Thank you.

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  4. Dr. Erica WarrenJanuary 25, 2013 at 10:58 PM

    Thanks Camie - you made my day.

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