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Express! Summer Learning or Tutoring Solution
Express!
Asset-Based Access to English
Digital + Print • Grades K-6
Build Knowledge, Language, and Literacy
This dynamic summer learning or tutoring solution that will engage and empower your emergent bilinguals is designed to help build the language, literacy, and knowledge they need to succeed—all while honoring their cultural assets and first languages.
- Recognize and build on students’ existing knowledge, cultures, and experiences
- Emphasize development of key language skills
- Provide explicit modeling, differentiation, and strategic linguistic scaffolding
- Help students build Tier 2 and Tier 3 vocabularies
- Teach how English works in real-world applications
What has been found to enhance learning outcomes is simultaneously engaging different sensory modalities in activities directly related to reading and writing.
Incorporating these multimodality components into instruction that has been systematically designed and delivered using explicit, intensive techniques seems to enhance the learning of all students.
—Dr. Jan Hasbrouck
Author of Conquering Dyslexia
Express! Summer Learning or Tutoring Solution Resources
Supports tenets of structured literacy through multimodal activities, including audio, visual, and tactile methods. It includes:
- Systematic progression with tiles grouped by skills clusters.
- Supports orthographic mapping with Tap It, Map It, Write It routines on the board, as well as an open writing area for flexible use.
- Areas for:
- Oral Blending
- Oral Segmentation
- Encoding
- User Guide supports teachers with background, suggestions on how to use in a variety of settings, and sample routines.
Stackable, durable and convenient kits save time and money:
- Kits come ready to use – no printing, no cutting, no glueing needed!
- 5-pack sets are useful for small group lessons.
- 25-pack sets are useful for whole group instruction.
- Self-contained kits reduce loss and keep items neatly organized. No need to purchase baggies or containers.
- Kits are easily stackable for practical shelf use.
Flexible and customizable use allows one tool to be reused in every lesson, saving transition time within lessons.
- Complements any phonics curriculum.
- Dry erase surfaces on both tiles and boards offer flexible two-in-one use with structured and open-ended activities.
- Printed tile sheets include circles (counters), hearts, and blank tiles for customization. Additional copies of printed tile sheets are available for purchase.
- Blank tile sheets are also available for extra tiles, replacements, or any customized use.
Perfect for teachers new to the Science of Reading and Structured Literacy, Demonstration Videos bring User Guide activities to life. They model best practices in how to use the boards and tiles for multimodal instruction. Click on each link to view:
Set 1:
Decodable Word Routine Videos
High-Frequency Word Routine Videos
Set 2:
Decodable Word Routine Videos
High-Frequency Word Routine Videos
Bonus content!
Developed with Dr. Wiley Blevins, Additional Activities provide 11 new activities for Magnetic Letter Tiles and Boards.
- Build Phonological Awareness
- Build Phonemic Awareness and Decoding Skills
- Build Encoding/Spelling Skills
- Develop High-Frequency Words
