The Steps to Mastering Reading Comprehension (and How Parents Can Help) Mastering reading comprehension is no easy feat. It takes years to develop and needs a range of cognitive — processing, sequencing, attention, working memory, visual eye tracking —...
Early Years Performance of Children With Dyslexia is Often Misleading Parents of children with dyslexia can understandably be concerned that a lack of learning progress could be related to a lack of intelligence. In reality, the two – dyslexia and intelligence...
Reading Comprehension Has Levels Which Develop Sequentially Help for reading comprehension is not a simple undertaking, because reading comprehension – as defined at an 8th grade reading level – is complex and sophisticated. it starts with literal...
Getting from “must read” to “want to read” You know, a positive attitude to reading is such a valuable lifelong goal for you child. But getting started takes practice. And the concept of something you must do is both daunting and unappealing,...
Focus on a lifelong love of reading Your 1st grader will not and should not be reading Harry Potter. And that’s not the goal of reading help for your 1st grader. Rather the goal is create a solid foundation for a lifelong reading habit, which includes...
Phonics Teaching is Slow Without Phonemic Awareness Teaching phonics and phonemic awareness often go together and are seen by parents as the same, but they are not. Here is the headline difference: Phonemic Awareness is about processing sounds, hearing letter sounds...
