Here's an article in the July 11, 2010 Seattle Times addressing a question many parents of young children are asking about reading programs, especially as a new school year approaches. John Rosemond advises that a phonics-based approach is essential. He also adds: By the way, I …

Here is an article published in the New York Times about a new ad campaign recently launched. President Obama is promoting reading to children by sharing the book Where the Wild Things Are to a group of children here:

What type of parent are you? Do you ever wonder how your parenting style is impacting your child/children? By looking at recent research from Professor Mark Cummings of the University of Notre Dame, you can see how your parenting style is impacting your child’s school performance …

Last night some of our family watched the new movie Ramona and Beezus, which is based on the books by Beverly Cleary. This author was one of the first I ever really took note of in grade school. I still feel a certain familiarity with her as though she were a personal friend, and it' …

Coming up this August 12th is a free webinar for reading teachers offered by Reading Horizons entitled "My Road to The Reading Room: an Examination of Today's Storytelling in Popular Entertainment" with Randy Feldman. Randy Feldman has been a Hollywood movie and television writer for …

The August issue of the Family FunMagazine came today, and I liked Jennifer King Lindley's "The Great Unplugged Challenge". Looking at the statistics put out by the Kaiser Family foundation showing a child's daily media use averaging now a whopping 7 and 1/2 hours, she makes a great point: …

As I see the homeschooling groups share ideas for summer reading, as well as lots of other information they pass along, I imagine many other families would appreciate similar tips. Here are just a few: 1. Of course, Reading Horizons tops my list. See Reading Horizon Resources for free …

A few weeks ago we had a one week series titled: “Celebrating Dyslexia.” Originally it was only going to be a one week series, but today I decided I don’t want to stop “celebrating dyslexia” thus as I discover more impressive stories of dyslexics the series …

We had a call this morning from a customer hoping to help her child increase her fluency using the Reading Horizons program. Discussing this concern with Shantell (our dyslexia specialist) brought up the need to stress transferring the decoding skills that students gain from the …

I recently learned about a new website, Readeo.com. Despite any amount of distance, children across the world can read a book together with their grandparents, (or parents, relatives, friends---whomever is away from them). It uses BookChat, an online program that allows two people to …