Teacher Resources | Toolkit for Educators
The Lindamood-Bell Toolkit for Educators is a free collection of tips, lessons, and information about literacy and learning.
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Enjoy these bookmarks in your classroom! Simple tools to support and strengthen your students reading and language skills.
This engaging, student-friendly poster supports the development of stronger reading, thinking, and writing skills.
This Imagine That! packet features 12 stories ranging from the 2nd-4th grade level.
Six lessons designed to enhance phonics, decoding, spelling, and fluency, featuring sight words, real words, nonsense words, and decoding sentences.
A resource that provides instructional leaders eight tips for applying concept imagery to enhance comprehension strategies.
Five Strategies for an Effective Literacy Intervention Plan, offers five tips—derived from our partnerships—to assist district administrators and teachers in implementing an effective literacy plan for struggling readers, including students with dyslexia.
This packet includes sample activities to develop vocabulary using strategies from the Visualizing and Verbalizing program. The packet includes workbook pages from Vanilla Vocabulary Level 1 and Level 2, along with a story from Ivan, King of the Neighborhood which lets students experience new vocabulary words in context.
Teachers: Just in case you need a little reminder of how truly super you are, we've created these mini-posters for you to display!
A resource for instructional leaders to support educators during classroom walkthroughs.
Digital Motivators
Student engagement can be one of the most challenging aspects of distance education. To help, here are a few of our favorite online motivational resources!
A little bit of preparation goes a long way. Get ready for your online teaching with this checklist.
This summary highlights how our sensory-cognitive instruction enhances language and literacy skills to help all students meet the rigorous expectations of the Common Core.
This Imagine That! lesson packet features four stories about acts of kindness (written at a 2nd-4th grade level), a writing activity, and a word search.
This fun packet includes six high-imagery and engaging stories, vocabulary practice, fun puzzles, and a drawing activity.
The Visualizing and Verbalizing program develops concept imagery—the ability to create an imaged gestalt from language—as a basis for comprehension and critical thinking. Download our sample chapter to explore how the development of concept imagery improves reading and listening comprehension, memory, oral vocabulary, critical thinking, and writing.
These sample chapters explore how the Seeing Stars® program develops symbol imagery—the ability to visualize sounds and letters in words—as a basis for orthographic awareness, phonemic awareness, word attack, word recognition, spelling, and contextual reading fluency.
The Lindamood Phoneme Sequencing® (LiPS®) Program develops phonemic awareness, reading, spelling, and speech. Students discover the articulatory features of each phoneme and use this multisensory feedback to verify sounds within words.
This sample chapter explores how the Talkies® program is the primer to the Visualizing and Verbalizing program, meant for students who need simpler, smaller steps of instruction to establish the imagery-language connection.
The On Cloud Nine® (OCN) program develops the ability to image and verbalize the concepts and processes of math. Download this sample chapter to explore how concept imagery and numeral imagery are integrated with language to improve both mathematical reasoning and mathematical computation.
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Visualizing and Verbalizing® Program
The Visualizing and Verbalizing (V/V) program develops concept imagery—the ability to create an imaged gestalt from language—as a basis for comprehension and higher order thinking. The development of concept imagery improves reading and listening comprehension, memory, oral vocabulary, critical thinking, and writing.
How Lindamood-Bell Sensory-Cognitive Instruction can be the Answer to a Dyslexia Mandate
Join Lindamood-Bell’s Dave Kiyvirya for a detailed presentation of how sensory-cognitive instruction using our founders’ evidence-based programs can be the perfect answer to a state mandate on dyslexia. Lindamood-Bell’s unique instruction is proven effective for students with learning difficulties, including dyslexia, with incredible gains achieved in a short time.
[Webinar] Formative Assessment | Lindamood-Bell for Schools
In this presentation, we describe real-time RTI and effective formative assessment.
Schools partner with Lindamood-Bell for our expertise in aligning assessment with instruction for students in all tiers of instruction. This presentation is appropriate for educators, including State, District, and School Administrators, Staff Development Coordinators, and Teachers; this presentation is appropriate for addressing the needs of a wide variety of populations, including Special Education, Regular Education, and English Language Learners.
The Council of Administrators of Special Education (CASE) has endorsed the Seeing Stars® program and the Visualizing and Verbalizing® program, which were authored by Lindamood-Bell’s founders.
Effective Online Literacy Instruction | Lindamood-Bell for Schools
Lindamood-Bell for Schools builds expertise and instructional skills to improve student literacy. We help educators provide in-person and virtual instruction using our evidence-based approach.
Lindamood-Bell has pioneered programs to develop the imagery-language foundation that underlies reading, spelling, language comprehension, math, memory, and critical thinking. Our interactive, in-depth professional development is available in-person and online.
Reading Rockets: Make Reading Count (1 of 2)
A WETA PBS webcast featuring Nanci Bell, CEO and co-founder of Lindamood-Bell Learning Processes.
Autism Live
The Director of Research for the Lindamood-Bell Learning Processes joins Autism Live via Skype to discuss research, how Lindamood-Bell teaches reading comprehension and how sensory-cognitive instruction applies to students on the spectrum.
Learn more about the Seeing Stars program—Instruction that Changes Lives
Nanci discusses and demonstrates program steps that result in years of gain for students of all ages and learning challenges—including students identified with dyslexia.
Learn more about the Visualizing and Verbalizing program—Dream Big for Comprehension
Nanci describes the imagery-language connection, which is essential for reading, spelling, and comprehension. Learn how Lindamood-Bell identifies the underlying causes of learning challenges and how they address those challenges with evidence-based, individualized instruction.
Podcasts
The Lindamood-Bell Radio Podcast features discussions about literacy and learning. Guests include leaders in the fields of research and education.
- Dr. Guinevere Eden, Director of the Center for the Study of Learning at Georgetown University
- Melissa Garner and Dave Kiyvyra, Lindamood-Bell for Schools
- Patrick Donnelly, Manager of the Brain Development & Education Lab at the University of Washington
- Rajesh Kana, Ph.D., Director of the Cognition, Brain, and Autism Lab at the University of Alabama
- Jason D. Yeatman, Ph.D., Director of the Brain Development & Education Lab at the University of Washington
