Sandie Barrie-Blackley

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            Attached below is a concordance comparing The Wilson Reading System's scope & sequence with the Lexercise scope & sequence.  Wilson and Lexercise are both structured literacy ap...

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• Edited December 20, 2018 20:31
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For Course 1: The Structure of Written English the participant will: 1)    List the domains of language, from speech to print. 2)    Define a syllable and explain where this unit fits into the dom...

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WHY DO A SPELLING ANALYSIS? As described in the article, Spelling Errors: What They Can Reveal About Language Processing,  a spelling analysis can reveal a lot about a child's language processing. ...

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Lexercise practice is designed to establish a foundation for true mastery (above 80% accuracy) for reading and spelling single words and for reading and writing connected text. One of the best and...

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ONLINE COURSES WHO Lexercise offers three online professional education courses designed to prepare language intervention professionals to provide structured literacy services to clients with lang...

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English language structure is a little like chemistry.   In chemistry, 118 known chemical elements make up all matter. In English, about 44 speech sounds are spelled with 460 or so letters and ...

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This picture is from Lexercise Live Broadcast 39: In Appreciation of Handwriting (View the Live Broadcast here.)    Practitioners of structured literacy (aka Orton-Gillingham or O-G) methods typ...

• Sandie Barrie-Blackley
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  Why care about sentence structures like phrases and clauses? Clauses and phrases are the two main building blocks of sentences.  WHAT IS A SENTENCE? A sentence (which must have both a subject an...

• Sandie Barrie-Blackley
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  Working memory (WM) refers to the ability to hold information in mind while using that information to complete a task. People who have difficulty with short term memory (STM) tasks, such as recal...

• Sandie Barrie-Blackley
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This is a brief description of the Lexercise's Mind's Eye™ curriculum, which is part of the Lexercise teletherapy platform. Lexercise therapists use the Mind's Eye™ curriculum to help improve the s...

• Sandie Barrie-Blackley
• Edited August 30, 2017 21:49
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