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School Psychologist Approved: Reading & Math Toolbox
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items As a school psychologist, I created these recommendations to help parents support their child’s learning at home using simple, effective tools that build foundational skills in reading, math, attention, and confidence. I work daily with children who ...
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Reading Resources
As a school psychologist, my reading recommendations are designed to support children who struggle with skills such as phonics, fluency, tracking, and reading comprehension by making reading more structured, visual, and manageable. I work daily with ...
As a school psychologist, I recommend Dry Erase Highlight Tape because it helps children focus on one line of text at a time, reducing visual overload and making reading feel more manageable. This reusable, removable tape won't damage books and is es...
5 Rolls Neon Highlighter Reading Tape
I recommend using a Book Stand because it positions books at eye level, promoting better posture and making it easier for children to visually track text while reading. This simple tool can reduce physical strain, improve focus, and create a more com...
Adjustable Metal Book Holder Stand
I recommend Phonics Flash Cards because they provide a fun, effective way for children to practice letter sounds, sight words, and word families, helping build strong foundational reading skills. Regular practice with these cards improves word recogn...
Blends & Digraphs Cards-Phonics Games
I recommend a Visual Timer (such as a Time Timer) because it encourages children to engage in short, focused reading sessions without feeling overwhelmed. By making time visible, it helps build attention, stamina, and positive reading habits while re...
Time Timer/Visual Timer
I recommend using a Finger Pointer or Reading Wand because it gives children a simple, hands-on way to track each word as they read, improving accuracy and reducing skipped words. This tool helps strengthen reading fluency, increase focus, and build ...
FingerFocus Reading Pointers for Kids, Dyslexia & ADHD Tools
I recommend Magnetic Letter Tiles because they provide a hands-on, interactive way for children to build, manipulate, and sound out words, strengthening essential phonics and decoding skills. This engaging tool helps early readers develop confidence ...
Phonics Magnetic Letter Tiles - ABC Magnets
I recommend Reading Guide Strips (Colored Reading Tracking Strips) because they help children stay focused by highlighting one line of text at a time, making it easier to track words, reduce line skipping, and improve reading fluency. I've seen how t...
16Pcs Guided Reading Highlight Strips
I recommend sentence search game because it helps children strengthen reading fluency, sentence structure awareness, and comprehension in a fun, interactive way. It encourages students to actively identify and build correct sentences which improves g...
Skillmatics Sentence Search Board Game, 120+ Tiles
Math Resources
As a school psychologist, my math recommendations are designed to help children who struggle with number sense, computation, and problem-solving by making abstract math concepts more concrete, visual, and hands-on. I support students with a wide ran...
I recommend Base Ten blocks because they help children visualize place value addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division using hands on manipulatives. By making math concepts concrete instead of abstract, these blocks build number sense in in...
Base Ten Blocks with Place Value Chart
I recommend a money activity set because it helps children build real world math skills by learning to identify coins, understand value, and practice counting money in a hands-on way. This type of concrete, visual learning, strengthens number sense, ...
Kasfalci 140 PCS Money for Kids Learning
I recommend using a Number Line because it helps children visualize numbers, understand magnitude, and solve addition and subtraction problems more accurately. This simple tool strengthens number sense and supports students who struggle with mental m...
0-100 Dry Erase Number Line Board
I recommend Dry Erase Math Fact Flash Cards because they provide repeated practice with addition and subtraction while allowing children to correct mistakes and try again. This reusable tool builds math fluency through short, engaging practice sessio...
Addition & Subtraction Flash Cards w/ 4 Pens
I recommend Dry Erase Math Fact Flash Cards because they provide repeated practice with multiplication, and division while allowing children to correct mistakes and try again. This reusable tool builds math fluency through short, engaging practice se...
Multiplication & Division Dry Erase Flashcards
Turn math practice into game time fun! I recommend Math Games because they turn math practice into a fun game while strengthening number recognition, mental math, and problem-solving skills. Games help reduce math anxiety and increase motivation by m...
Preschool-1st Grade Math Board Games with Dice
I recommend a Multiplication Chart because it reduces frustration while students are learning their math facts and allows them to focus on solving more complex problems. As fluency develops, children become more confident and less anxious when workin...
Multiplication Table Learning Chart
Turn math practice into game time fun! I recommend Math Games because they turn math practice into a fun game while strengthening number recognition, mental math, and problem-solving skills. Games help reduce math anxiety and increase motivation by m...
ThinkFun Math Dice Junior Game for Kids 6+
I recommend the multiplication machine game because it makes practice and multiplication facts engaging and interactive, helping children build fluency without feeling overwhelmed. It strengthens number since improves recall of math facts and reduces...
Small World Toys Multiplication Machine Game
This math teaching dice set with numbers and operation symbols makes practicing addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division interactive, and engagement. It helps children to strengthen mental math build, fluency with operations and develop fl...
Gejoy 18-Piece Math Teaching Dice Set
I recommend math dice for fraction games because I find that students are more engaged when fraction practice is turned into game base activities instead of worksheets. I’ve seen these dice, help children better understand fraction concepts, reduce f...
20PCS Green Math Dice for Fraction Games
I recommend fraction war because it turns fraction practice into an engaging card game where children can compare fractions in a fun, low-pressure way. This game helps strengthen fraction sense, comparison skills, and confidence while reducing math a...
Fraction War Math Game for Grades 2-5
I recommend a time activity set because I often see students struggle with understanding time, time management, and sequencing daily activities. I found that when children can physically interact with clocks, schedules, and time based activities, it ...
Time Activity Set - Telling Time Teaching Clock