After five years of getting feedback from parents of children preK-grade 3, two things are abundantly clear to me: families aren’t aware of the skills children need to become strong readers & school messaging about…
In a NY Times Op-ed last fall, the prize-winning education reporter, Emily Hanford, described the sad state of reading instruction in the U.S. She cited the dismal data, highlighted the amount of…
Learning to read begins long before children enter school. That’s because children need to build crucial language and literacy skills up over the early years in order to read well…
As parents, we think about loving and responding to our babies and little ones, and we think about reading to our children. We just don’t usually think about how the…
There are three types of skills children need to become strong reader. Most people think it is just about learning letters and sounds, but it’s more than that. Some reading skills have to develop over months…
When I talk with parents of children beyond kindergarten, the same question often comes up: “My child just doesn’t pick up a book on his own. How can I get…
Most of us know reading is fundamental to a child’s future success, but many parents aren’t told what they can (and should) do to help their child read. The good…
It makes sense that vocabulary is important for reading success: if a child doesn’t know or understand enough words in a book, he or she will have lots of trouble understanding the book. That…
At this point in the summer, you might be wondering whether your early elementary-school child has learned a lot since school ended — or if he actually lost ground and…
When we talk about the 3 buckets of skills children need to read well, people wonder how Awareness & Regulation skills make a difference for reading and academic success. Today…
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