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Find Classroom Reading Help on Pinterest
Reading Horizons recently joined that social media phenom, Pinterest. And we’ve done it with abandon – sharing pins and boards like Education Quotes, Education Reform, Lesson Ideas, Humor for the Classroom, and Literacy Help. What makes Pinterest an excellent reading …
Can The Lorax Help Children Read Better? Bonus: Lorax Apps
February 29, the NEA kicked off the “Read Across America Tour – Driven by Mazda,” as children were visited by the Lorax himself. The nation’s largest reading event of 2012 will visit 20 cities on the East and West coasts, …
What Every Parent Should Know About RTI
Before 2004, children who were struggling in school or had any type of learning disability, were automatically relegated to a “wait to fail before we intercede” philosophy. But that all changed with IDEA 2004 which required schools to implementResponse to Intervention (RTI). …
How Can Parents Support Their Child’s Reading Development?
by Kathy Chappell-Muncy MS Ed. Reading and Literacy and Margaret Nichols MS Ed. Reading and Literacy Much as papa tiger watched and worried as his little tiger son Leo didn’t speak, or eat nicely, write or read in Leo the Late …
Sweet Success with Literacy at the KSL Book Festival
Last Saturday, Reading Horizons was a vendor at the semi-annual KSL Book Festival sponsored, in part, by Read Today. Our overriding desire was to introduce families to our Lemons for Literacy program and to have a platform to talk about creating super readers …
Learning to Read at 98 Years Young
I absolutely adore this news story about desire and perseverance. It’s never too late to learn to read! When Jim Henry was in third grade his alcoholic father made him and his brother quit school so they could shovel trash …
What is the Connection Between Dyslexia and Memory?
Here is Reading Horizons Dyslexia Specialist, Shantell Berrett, discussing the impact dyslexia has on memory. Berrett also discusses the best way to respond when a child has a difficult time remembering the tasks they are suppose to complete: To learn …
The Metamorphosis of Reading
It is so easy to feel frustrated while learning to read. This includes even those children in K-3 who would normally be excited about the prospect of reading all by themselves. This enthusiasm wanes quickly with repeated, unsuccessful attempts at …
Who’s to Blame When Your Child Can’t Read?
When a child has trouble learning to read in school, the source of the child’s problem can usually be traced to one or more of five causes. The child may be misplaced in the curriculum, or the curriculum may include …
How Pre-reading Improves Fluency and Comprehension
One of the questions that parents often ask us is how to help their children transition from the phonetic skills (decoding skills) that they are learning to applicable reading skills. There are a few critical steps to ensure a smooth transition …
