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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 Teach Your Child Decoding Skills
Decoding is the ability to connect letter-sound relationships and to correctly pronounce and spell written words. Understanding these relationships gives students the power to decode, or read, words quickly. Roughly 70 percent of children can figure out some of these …
Fun and Free Online Reading Activities
Looking for some fresh, new ideas to boost reading skills at home? Here are a few free online reading resources to check out! Dinosaur Word Search Free Phonics Worksheets Alphabet Action Game PBS Between the Lions – Spelling Practice Pizza …
Top 5 Reading Help Blog Posts
1) Inferring, Vocabulary and Struggling Readers Inferring, when applied to reading, allows us the same opportunity. We can use the author’s language or tone to infer additional meaning that might not be spelled out in the text. We can use a …
Become a Reading Superhero
It’s easy to be a reading superhero, and you don’t have to fly, time travel, or become invisible to do it. Instead gather your family or class together for an afternoon of these fun reading ideas. Ask your students to …
Reading or Spring Cleaning?
“Why Spring clean when you can read?” That’s what my grown up daughter said to me the other day. She does have a point. It seems like one of the things that I enjoy the most – reading… is the thing …
Raising A {Happy} Reader
Sometimes we just can’t help it – when it comes to reading, we put a lot of pressure on our kids too early. All that racing, pushing, and prodding could be in vain – brain-development research shows that children aren’t …
Games That Improve Phonics Development
If you know how to sound out a word you are using phonics skills. Without this ability it is nearly impossible to learn to read new words. Any extra reading practice that you can do at home to reinforce phonics …
Free Friday Resource: Help My Child Read
I was searching the Internet looking for some free reading resources for parents and ran across the U.S. Department of Education’s site dedicated to a topic near and dear to my heart; Help My Child Read. The U.S. Department of Education has …
The Top 3 Free Reading Resources
So do you know why cat starts with a C and kitten starts with a K? The answer is at the bottom of this blog post. Take your own poll to see who else can answer this question. We’re sad …
