MobyMax Giveaway

Hi everyone!  Recently, MobyMax reached out to me and asked if I was interested in using their program with my students.  Of course, I said yes!  What teacher doesn't want a program that can be tailored to each student's needs and provides reports on progress?

There's so many great parts to the MobyMax program.  Each student starts out with a placement test.  This allows the students to start out learning on their own individual areas of need.

One thing I love is that each lesson explains to students what they are learning before practicing.  So many programs just have the students practice with no lesson beforehand.

When students make mistakes, they are given corrective feedback immediately.  This is so important for our students to learn from their mistakes!

Since I teach struggling readers, I'm always worried about students being able to actually read the text on online programs.  MobyMax provides the option to listen to all problems and stories!  Such a relief for my most struggling readers.

Not only are students engaged and practicing important skills on MobyMax, there are GREAT report options for teachers!  

If you happen to be a special education teacher, MobyMax can be customized to specifically work on IEP goals.  How awesome is that?  I love that I can customize this for each child and then use the data to help report on IEP goals!

 MobyMax is being so generous and allowing me to giveaway a subscription to their site to one of you guys!  You can enter below. :)

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Spin for Tens (a freebie)

Hi everyone!  Today, I'm blogging over at Owl-ways Be Inspired.

My class has been working on understanding a bundle of ten tens is a hundred.  It's been slow going, so I made this activity to help us.  You can download it as a freebie if you check out my post {here}.

I hope this is helpful!

Correcting Letter Reversals or Rotations

I'm joining up for another monthly Bright Ideas Blog Hop!  I love getting new ideas from other fabulous teachers!

This is a post I've been meaning to write for the last month!  So many of my students have letter reversals or rotations when reading and writing.  For students that have been doing this for several years, it can be really hard to correct.  

These are the kinds of mistakes I often see.  Many people just think of the b and d reversals, but there are often errors with rotations, such as reading a 'w' as an 'm'.

The n and u rotation is usually found in more severe struggling reader cases.

Here's how I correct the errors in my class.

This little trick most often fixes the error.  

Once students trace the letter in the air or on their desk, they typically say the correct sound right away.

It's important to use the same consistent key words so that students know the letter - sound - key word correspondence.

Sometimes, you just have to tell them the sound if the other tricks didn't work.  No reason to beat a dead horse!

Hopefully, this has corrected the error.  These tricks also help when a student is writing a letter in reverse.

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