Parents commonly ask me, “Isn’t dyslexia seeing words backwards?” The simple answer is no, it is not seeing words backwards.…
Parents, let me speak for a minute as a classroom teacher. Your bright, elementary-age child has been in my class…
As a teacher, I had a love/hate relationship with standardized tests. I hated the amount of time they took away…
This blog post is contributed by Journalism Professor Emeritus of University of Wisconsin-River Falls, Colleen Callahan. As a journalism professor…
It’s the late 1990’s. Too many American children are failing to learn how to read. The situation becomes so desperate,…
Do any of these statements describe your child? Your dyslexic child is making progress with reading, but his independent reading…
Your child has been through so much. Tier 1, tier 2, tier 3 interventions. Sylvan, Kumon, Huntington. Occupational therapy, small…
“Please pass the salt.” The word please is in every English speaker’s vocabulary from the time he is able to speak.…
Let’s imagine these two scenarios for a minute. Your car is making a funny noise. You take it to your…
Poetry. Poetry was those flowery, obscure verses my high school English teacher insisted we read and try to interpret. I…