My child struggles to understand what she’s reading. Should I give her a text-to-speech tool?
A confession: my navigation skills are abysmal. I’ve been known to get lost in car parks and Mario Cart. But,...
Should we spend time teaching our kids to spell? If so, how, and what should we teach them?
Learning to spell is hard and time-consuming. Should we invest precious school time teaching kids how to spell? I think so....
Free resources to help our preschoolers and primary school-age kids to read
To help our kids to read, we need good tools to put independent, peer-reviewed research into practice. Decades of evidence-building tells us...
Too many stories, not enough facts? Free tips and resources to boost your child’s knowledge and reading comprehension skills
Reading comprehension is complex. Teaching kids evidence-based comprehension strategies helps. But it’s not enough (e.g. Catts & Kahmi, 2017). Kids also...
My loved one has reading problems. Where can I find evidence-based answers to get help? New free eBook
Instantly download our new, 188-page, free eBook here: What is it? There’s so much information out there about reading difficulties, including...
Help your child to fill in the gaps, join the dots, and read between the lines! (Improve inferencing skills for better reading and language comprehension)
Roughly 10% of primary school-aged kids have poor reading and oral language comprehension skills relative to age-appropriate word-reading skills (Cain, 2009)....