How to Help with Reading: A Reading Specialist’s Tips
When is it time to start working on reading skills? Right now.
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Keeping Up the Momentum: A Reading Specialist Shares How to Help Young Readers Maintain Skills
While schools do a lot to promote and improve literacy skills in young readers, there is still a lot you can do at home to help your child succeed.
How to Help Beginning Readers: Tips from a Reading Specialist
After children have mastered pre-reading skills, the instructional focus shifts to vocabulary, comprehension, and fluency.
How to Help Pre-Readers: A Reading Specialist’s Tips
When is the appropriate time to start working on reading skills?
What is Reading?
The most fundamental definition of reading is being able to interpret written symbols and understand printed material.
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Idioms Take the Cake!
At our house no one is ever hungry, they are “staaarving!” No one is ever tired, they are “exhaaaausted!” That’s how we roll. To just say things straight would be “sooo incredibly booooring!” And we are not just prone to hyperbole either, we like all types of colorful language, especially idioms. Idioms like… Quit dilly-dallying … Continued
Kids and Potty Talk
Watching your child develop language skills is definitely one of the great joys of parenting. My five year old is picking up big, grown-up words every day, and it is fun watching her figure out how to use them. But, as with any new skill your child obtains, there are definitely drawbacks. When they learn … Continued
Here we go…again…
I pulled out a pad of paper to jot down a few ideas for my blog post, and the toddler to my right (my son Emmett’s friend) inquired, “Mommy write?” Impressed with her command of the word “write,” I joyfully responded, “Yes. I’m going to write!” To this, she replied, “Mommy write?” Again, “Yes. Write.” … Continued