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Check Phonemic Awareness When Sounding Out Words Is Torture
Why Learning to Listen Comes Before Learning to Read “The best predictor of reading difficulty in kindergarten or first grade is the inability to segment words and syllables into constituent sound units (phonemic awareness).” (Famous NIH researcher, Reed...
Is Your Child’s Brain Fast Enough to Read?
The Amazing Reading Brain – If Processing Is Fast Enough The brain can make every word a “sight word” when language processing skills are good. But what if they’re not? Reading feels like a visual skill. We see a child learn the letters of the...
Reading Help for 1st Graders
Learning To Read Is a Sequential Process Is your child having difficulty blending sounds in 1st grade? Is your first grader struggling with reading? What does struggling with reading even mean in 1st grade? Reading help for a 1st grader might not be what you think....
Writing Problems – How To Help Your Child
Do’s and Don’ts for Struggling Young Writers Every parent knows that sometimes getting their child to complete work can be challenging. Whether you are teaching your children at home or in school, some kids just refuse to write. They might have various...
How to Prepare Your Child for Phonics and Reading Success
How to Avoid Phonics Frustration When Phonics Doesn’t Work for Reading: Try Pre-phonics Training Phonics fell out of favor as a primary method of reading instruction because too many children lack the language-processing skills to identify phonemes like/ba/ and...