7 Tips for Parents: Take Action When Your Child is Struggling with Reading
We know how upsetting and stressful it is to watch your child struggle with reading. Having a plan can help. If you are a parent…
What Is The Most Important Thing You Can Do With Your Kids During Distance Learning
So, we have found ourselves in the unforeseen situation where the baton of our child’s education has just been handed off from teachers to parents!…
Vowel Teams: What We Never Learned, Explained
Vowel Teams are tough! In fact, many kids can’t successfully decode and encode (read and spell) until they understand these higher-level concepts. The problem is…
Rethinking Comprehension
Comprehension is the final of the 5 components of reading. It is at the top of the pyramid. It is the ultimate goal of all…
Rethinking Vocabulary
Vocabulary and comprehension are so closely related that it is debatable if they should even be separate components of reading. Without attaching meaning to words,…
Rethinking Fluency
I’ve had several conversations with amazing teachers lately questioning our teaching routines concerning fluency. So often we put great emphasis on fluency and it becomes…
Rethinking Phonics
Phonics is matching a language’s sounds (phonemes) to symbols or letter(s). Kids who do not learn and master this connection will sooner or later, struggle…
Rethinking Phonological Awareness
Maybe for this one, it isn’t re-thinking as much as just thinking about Phonological Awareness. This is the least known, most misunderstood component of reading. …
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Rethinking Spelling Instruction
I was never great at spelling. I grew up thinking that it was something that people were either born with or not. I was not. …
Back to the Basics- The 5 Components of Literacy
Several years ago I went to a multi-sensory reading class. As an opening activity, the teachers ask the room full of dedicated, motivated, hard-working teachers…
