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Multisensory and Memorable Mathematics Strategies: Math Favorites Bundle

For many students, math concepts can feel confusing or overwhelming, and standard classroom instruction is not always enough to meet their diverse learning needs. When learners require a more indiv...

Free, Multisensory, Learning Center Activity: How Many?

🎲 Transform Learning with Multisensory, Game-Like Activities Making classroom activities both game-like and multisensory can transform how young learners engage with new information. When learni...

Multisensory Angles PowerPoint Lesson that Makes Geometry Come Alive

Many students find geometry abstract and disconnected from real life, especially when first learning about angles. When math is taught through memorization alone, children often struggle to retain ...

Reaching All Types of Learners With Multisensory Teaching

One of the most common issues teachers struggle with is how to accommodate the multiple intelligences and diverse learning needs of their students. With as many as 12 different ways of processin...

How Multisensory Teaching Works - Inspire Superior, Excited Students

When experiences tap into all our senses as well as a variety of ways that we can process and organize information, not only does it grab our attention, but it becomes extremely memorable. The term...

26 Awesome and Fun Math Ideas for Struggling Students

With the summer vacation just around the corner, it will be important to implement some mathematics over the break to avoid the "summer slide." The "summer slide" is a term used to describe the l...

Monster Multiplication: A New Multisensory and Mindful Approach to Long Multiplication

Long multiplication is often one of the most challenging math skills for elementary and middle school students to learn and remember. Many children struggle to keep steps in order, line up number...

Teaching Mental Math to All Elementary Students

Many people think that mental math is too difficult for elementary learners, but, in fact, youngsters have wonderful imaginations and capacities to visualize that can be utilized while doing mathem...

Using Beach Balls For Comprehension, Math and More

I just love to use balls in teaching sessions—they’re one of my favorite tools for transforming lessons into interactive, joyful experiences! Beach balls, in particular, are inexpensive, colorful, ...

Strategies that Strengthening Math Abilities for Struggling Elementary Students

There is often an easy solution to helping elementary students who struggle with math.  But first, we must understand that the cause of the math troubles.   Finding the Root Cause of Math Problems...

PhotoMath and ModMath - Best FREE Apps for Struggling Math Students

Serving the needs of struggling math students can be challenging, and giving them the assistive technology tools for independent learning is vital. This week, I’m excited about sharing my two favo...

How to Help Students Remember Math Steps: Fun Strategies for Long Division

Many students struggle with the steps required to complete mathematical problems. They may forget the concept, miss a step, mis-sequence the steps, misread a sign, or struggle with writing out or...

Educational Therapy Courses for Coaches and Educators

Come learn about Dr. Warren's educational therapy courses for coaches and teachers.

Factoring and Multiples - Fun and Memorable Lessons and Activities

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 im...

Strategies for Teaching the Different Types of Angles and Lines

Integrating multisensory instruction into teaching transforms ordinary lessons into dynamic, interactive experiences that captivate students’ attention and foster deeper learning. When lessons e...

Why Should We Learn About Angles? A Fun Strategy

When students use their senses to learn, they not only remember concepts more easily but also enjoy the process. Using playful materials, humor, and multisensory memory strategies during lessons...

How to Make Multiplication Instruction Super Fun and Memorable

Multiplication Instruction that requires rote memorization is often a labor-intensive and boring task for young learners. Many kids spend countless hours with flashcards as well as paper and penci...

Multiples and LCM Made Easy with Millipedes

Over the years, I have noticed that many students find it difficult to remember how to identify multiples and how to determine the least common multiple (LCM). The terms themselves often do not pr...

Inquiry Based Instruction - A Four Step Process to Student Empowerment

Having focused my higher education on lifelong learning, I studied both pedagogy (a child-focused teaching approach) and andragogy (an adult-focused teaching approach). In fact, I believe that many...

Unforgettable Measurement Memory Strategies for Elementary Students

While most countries use the metric system, the United States still relies on the traditional U.S. customary system of inches, feet, and pounds. Many students find unit conversions tricky, but t...

How to Quickly Teach Multiplication Facts with No Struggle

I know far too well that rote memorization is both boring and frustrating for many young learners.  Over the years, I have also witnessed many students who struggle to learn these foundational skil...

10 Ways Help Struggling Students in 2020 | Good Sensory Learning

Come learn about some empowering strategies to assist struggling learners and also learn about ready made materials that can help make the process fun and memorable.

Real Numbers Instruction: Having Real Fun with Real Numbers

Many students struggle with math vocabulary, and this challenge becomes especially apparent when they are introduced to real numbers. Terms such as rational, irrational, integers, and whole numb...

How to Homeschool Dyslexic Kids - Fun Strategies for Success

Finding excellent educational materials when you are homeschooling your children can be a challenge, but when you have a child with a learning disability, such as dyslexia, it is extremely importa...

Free Money Game Idea - Fun House Money Game

Integrating games into academic lessons sparks curiosity, builds multisensory engagement, and captures the attention of even the most reluctant learners. Play transforms learning; suddenly, student...

Accommodating Students with Dyslexia - 12 Strategies for Success

Students with dyslexia or symptoms of dyslexia often struggle in school. It is not that they have limited abilities. On the contrary, many have IQs in the above-average or genius range. As a result...

What Is Dyslexia? Symptoms, Signs, and Myths for Kids

When a child learns they have dyslexia, the way it is explained can shape how they understand themselves as a learner. Some parents worry that sharing the diagnosis may lead to labels, fear, or ...

Learning Place Value with Pompoms and Pill Boxes

Bringing a tactile, visual, and experiential component into math instruction can bring the “fun factor” into your lessons. In addition, incorporating multisensory dynamics into lessons makes them ...

How To Help Students Be Active Learners and Stop Passive Learning

Many classrooms foster passive learning by training students to sit still and receive lessons through lectures and texts. Students are expected to listen, absorb, and remember the new content witho...

How to Address Spelling Needs and Nurture Student Success

This week, I am thrilled to share a case study of a fabulous teacher named Kim from Cape Town in South Africa. Kim teaches a 3rd-grade class at a special needs school. The children range from 10...

Best Professionals for Helping Students | Good Sensory Learning

Finding the best professional to help with a struggling student can be a challenging chore.  Several Professionals Can Help: Educational Therapist: An educational therapist offers remedial treat...

What are the Signs of Dysgraphia and Solutions for Success?

Dysgraphia is a learning disability that affects written language: spelling, capturing ideas on paper, visual-spatial skills, and fine motor skills such as handwriting. Different terms are used to...

What Resources are the Best for Online Tutoring?

Finding online learning and tutor resources can be a challenge. There is an overwhelming number of sites, apps, and products, and locating the best ones to help you create lesson plans or a tutorin...

10 Successful Strategies for Tactile Learners

Can you imagine what it would be like to navigate our surroundings without a sense of touch? It would probably be challenging to simply get from place to place, let alone learn anything! For many l...

What are the Best Online Resources for Academic Gains?

Come learn about some great online resources that students can use at home to support their learning in math, reading and science.

16 Ways to Make Lessons Memorable and So Much Fun

Making lessons both memorable and fun brings magic into any classroom. Instead of looking at a room of passive, bored faces, you can transform your learners into active, engaged participants. I wo...

Powerful Orton-Gillingham Friendly Games that Bring Delight to Learning

About 20 years ago, when I first began offering students one-to-one Orton-Gillingham-based reading remediation, I was having to bribe my students to read long lists of words, word parts, and nonse...

Accommodations and Modifications for Students with Learning Disabilities

Choosing the right accommodations and modifications can make a tremendous difference for students with learning disabilities. The right supports can improve access to learning, reduce unnecessary b...

Free Internet Games That are Great for the Brain!

Explore My Collection of Over 100 Free Educational Games As a learning specialist and educational therapist, I’ve spent years exploring the internet in search of engaging, high-quality educational...

50 Awesome Remedial Games for Struggling Readers

When I first began my private practice about 20 years ago, my primary focus was remedial reading with Orton-Gillingham (OG) methods. With my doctoral training in hand, I continually reviewed readin...

26 Best Homework and Learning Sites

Educational therapist, Dr. Erica Warren, discusses some of her favorite online homework and learning sites.  Come learn more!

Working Memory: Definition, Symptoms, Impact on Academics, Solutions, and Freebie

Do you have students who constantly forget to bring a pencil, misplace homework, blurt out unrelated comments, or struggle to follow multi-step directions? These everyday challenges often trace ...

Empower Dyslexic Students with Successful Tools and Strategies

Students with dyslexia require a comprehensive approach to learning and strategy-based instruction, because many of these capable learners are not accommodated by traditional teaching methods. In ...

What Can You Do When Your Child Hates to Read?

For many young learners, reading is a tantalizing adventure into the imagination of an author and a fun way to increase knowledge. However, for other learners, reading can be a tedious chore that c...

Creating Language Arts Handbooks for Students with Dyslexia

Do your students have trouble remembering all the phonics, grammar, and spelling rules? Do you have to continually review past lessons to ensure that struggling readers know the foundational skills...

Working Memory Definition, Facts, Symptoms and Strategies Infographic

Did you know that working memory is one of the strongest predictors of academic success? This powerful cognitive function acts as the brain’s command center, allowing students to hold, organize, ...

Why Train as a Tutor When You Can Be a Learning Specialist?

A tutor is a teacher who assists students outside of school. They provide support and review concepts with difficult subject matter or classes. Oftentimes, they help with homework completion and ma...

How to Quickly and Easily Write Neatly with Zoom Annotations

When working with students online using Zoom, it can be frustrating and messy when trying to write out lessons with your mouse. Although Zoom does offer a great typing tool, when doing math problem...