Reading tools

These tools may help YOU help your student in their reading goals.

• Writable Cards
• Whisper Phones
• Finger Highlighter
• Blank Index Cards ​Punched with Ring
• Guided Reading Color Strips

Writable Cards

Writable Cards

We've used these in our group classes and found them very helpful. https://amzn.to/496FRCv They are writable playing cards. We mainly use them in our tutoring sessions to review letter shapes & sounds + additional phenomes. We do this at the start of EVERY tutoring session.

We recommend bold (using a thick poster marker) lowercase letters on one side and the sounds (even pictures) on the other.
Alternatively, they'd make great vocabulary cards!!

Whisper Phones

Whisper Phone

Are your kids struggling to hear the sounds coming out of their own mouths? That makes learning to read even more challenging. Let’s help them with a tool like a whisper phone.

https://amzn.to/4jsLPAP

1. These are great to hear the sounds they are actually saying
2. They help the student put the sounds together into words, if that's a rough spot for them
3. They also help when transitioning from reading outloud to silently in their heads by helping them gradually reduce the volume coming  out.

Finger Highlighter

Make it fun! One of the reminders I consistently give students is to Follow along with your finger. This tool takes that reminder to the next level. Some kids LOVE to use these. https://amzn.to/3LvVcDh

Finger Highlighter

Colored Blank Index Cards
​Punched with Ring

These little (big) cards have been a great help to our students. https://amzn.to/4nXun93
We use them to teach & review vocabulary words (curated from their word lists). Comprehension is one of the skills we intensively focus on - for students the need the help. We have students write (or we write) the word on one side and the definition with a picture on the other. Discussing the definition and drawing the picture really helps them remember!!
They keep them in their binder and review at home each day and during sessions.

Guided Reading Color Strips

This is a type of tool that can help ADHD and or dyslexic track what they are reading instead of having their eyes jump across the page back-and-forth.
https://amzn.to/3ZpD3KA 

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