Good Sensory Learning Blog

Bringing creative ideas and images into the writing process can make class work and homework assignments fun and memorable for students. I love teaching my students how to create word collages in the shape of an image. In addition, I find that my students love wriggle writing, too, which allows them to write their stories and poems in a nonlinear fashion. The Process of Creating a Word Collage: By Erica Warren Copyright 2013 1. Provide your students a theme, such as their favorite animal, a friend, a self-portrait, an event, a concept and so forth. 2. Share with them that...

Almost all elementary students experience some letter, number and word reversals, but for some, it is a pervasive problem.  Many of these students have symptoms of dyslexia or visual processing weaknesses, and they need to develop learning strategies and exercise visual processing and recognition to a point of automaticity.  Automaticity is the ability to do things without occupying the mind, allowing a process to become an automatic response or habit. It is usually the result of learning, repetition, and practice. Why Did I Create Reversing Reversals? I created the Reversing Reversals series, because I want to help struggling learners to...

In the heat of the moment, it is not uncommon for both teachers and parents to assign academic work as a consequence to inappropriate behaviors. In addition, pleasurable breaks such as recess are often withheld when students are being unruly or they don't complete classwork. A punishment might involve a writing assignment, extra math problems or additional homework. Why is This a Problem? The issue with this method is that children associate negative consequences and punishments with academics.  So, for example, if Patty was told to write an essay because she exhibited inappropriate behaviors, the next time she has to...

Do some of your students struggle with subtle linguistic cues, tricky wording and following both oral and written directions?  Difficulties in these areas can make it challenging to complete all aspects of an assignment, interpret multistep directions and comprehend multiple choice tests.  This is a common problem for students with dyslexia and other language-based learning disabilities, however, most students benefit from the development of this skill.  So what can we do to help foster these skills while bringing in the fun factor? With the holiday season around the corner, many students love to get into the spirit and providing festive...

Creating magical activities for struggling math students is one of my favorite things to do. Teaching fun memory strategies, hooking techniques, color coded steps, drawing strategies, and color implementation can be the secret weapon to igniting joy in the learning process. Over the years, I have found that many of my students have trouble with factoring and multiples. As a result, I have created a new publication to make the learning process both enjoyable and memorable for both the teachers and the students. Now, teachers have all the tools that they need to teach these concepts in a multisensory and...