Category Archives: Reading Skills
Using an Orton Gillingham Approach in the Home
If you have a child who struggles with reading you will do everything you can to understand the reasons for your child’s difficulties. You have seen your child’s frustration and have suffered alongside them as you yourself struggle to understand …
YouTube Videos that Instruct & Inspire!
A good majority of us would say that we are visual people. It is a safe assumption to make when statistics say that on average you will spend 2 minutes longer on this post because it has viewable video on …
Rainy Day Books
With the Easter holidays looming at the end of the month, families budgets tight, and the weather unpredictable: one question on the lips of parents is what can we do on a rainy day at home? Books could be the …
Multi-Sensory Instruction: Use it Effectively
There are two great blog posts Reading Horizons has that explain the reason for multi-sensory instruction and how to properly apply a multi-sensory approach to teaching reading. Those two posts are: The Connection Between Vocabulary and Reading Skills and A …
3 Ways Parents Can Help Their Kids Become Better Readers
Guest post by freelance blogger, Pepper Givens Remembering letters, sounds, and sight words may be difficult for your kindergartner. Reading long picture books may seem impossible to your second grader. Your fifth grader might struggle to finish his or her …
When to “Sound the Word Out” and When to Try a Different Approach to Reading with Your Child
Parents everywhere know that children are naturally-curious creatures. It could be an infant who discovers that pots and pans make noise when you bang them together, a toddler who learns (the hard way) that grown-up scissors will cut hair, or …
How Children Make the Reading Connection and Become Expert Readers
Learning to read is like…digging through an old coat closet and finding Narnia. Children enter the wardrobe and start hanging up all the skills they acquire without realizing that with each step deeper into the closet, they are on the …
Why Should Parents Care About Phonics Instruction?
Experience teaches us to be skeptical when things seem too good to be true, and it seems like 98% of the time an opportunity appears too amazing, something surely is amiss. But sometimes you find a wonderful thing that doesn’t …
How to Help A Deaf Child Become a Successful Reader
New parents are always such an endearing and amusing sight. They cannot yet look at their babies without an Olympic-sized grin and a monumental show of pride as if their child just became the only infant in history to win …
10 Ways Parents Can Grow Their Child’s Reading Skills
One major and important skill that children need for a happy and healthy life is the ability to become a fluent reader. Reading isn’t a skill that develops naturally – it is a learned ability. Even though reading may not occur naturally, …
Take a Bite Out of Evertaster: A Brand New Book Series for Picky Eaters…I Mean Kids
Are you looking for something yummy…to read? A new novel by up-and-coming author Adam Glendon Sidwell will give you just that – a tasty treat for your imagination. Evertaster is set to be released on June 14, 2012, so kids …
Why Sitting Too Close To the Television Makes Your Eyes Go Square
One crucial tool for improving reading is good eye sight. Here is a guest post discussing how you can protect your own eye sight and your child’s. Guest Post by Sara Parker “Don’t sit too close to the computer…your eyes …
What Can Pizza Teach About Reading and Language Skills?
Ordering a pizza would probably be something I would have put on my “easy” list: easy dinner option, easy kid-pleaser, easy to come by. And then I visited Italy. Don’t get me wrong, delicious pizza is extremely easy to find in …
