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. Here’s why: 1. Teachers, bosses…
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 that kids need phonological awareness, vocabulary, synthetic phonics, comprehension and fluency skills…
My loved one has reading problems. Where can I find evidence-based answers to get help? New free eBook
Instantly download our free eBook here: What is it? There’s so much information out there about reading difficulties, including dyslexia. It’s hard to sort: We…
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). These kids – poor “comprehenders”…
“I don’t understand what I’m reading” – reading comprehension problems (and what to do about them)
The whole point of reading – for education, work, social activities, self-improvement, community participation, or entertainment – is of course to understand the words that…