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Top Five Reading Blog Posts – Second Quarter 2011
1) Pinpoint Your Child’s Reading Problem This Summer If your child is a reluctant, resistant, or struggling reader, you may be wondering what you are going to do this summer to help them move past these ongoing challenges. We already …
Dear Parent: Why your Dyslexic Child Struggles with Reading
Recently, I came across a wonderfully compassionate, yet sensible article on children struggling with dyslexia and why they struggle. Maryanne Wolf, author of Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain, Director of the Center for Reading …
Guys Read
Jon Scieszka, author of children’s books such as The Stinky Cheese Man and the Time Warp Trio series, created a website called Guys Read, which takes a look at the growing literacy problems among boys in the United States and other developed countries and offers …
The Struggling Reader and Stress
Those who struggle with reading experience varying degrees of stress at school, doing their homework and with any activity that involves reading. It is hard for them to understand why they have such a difficult time with something that appears …
The Green Behind Reading
I have been working on a press release for Reading Horizons. As part of my research, I have stumbled upon some alarming literacy statistics. It’s things that I knew but, somehow, seeing them again in black and white is more than …
Promote Adult Literacy by Teaching Reading Skills
Without realizing it, you may already know an adult who cannot read. Non-literate adults are often very adept at concealing their lack of reading skills. At least one in five Americans is illiterate, and another 25% are able to read at …
