If you are:

• Moving to a new school
• Needing information for a meeting with a specialist
• Doing a reading assessment to create action steps or “wher
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A new grade 4 student arrived at the school, in the middle of the school year. There wasn’t any data from her former school. There wasn’t much informa...

Distracted, toe-tapping, staring off into space, frustrated—this describes most (all?) struggling readers I’ve had over the years.  They don’t start t...

Do your students or loved ones:

• find it challenging to get started on a task that requires reading and writing?
• have difficulty with stamina, spee
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I am a single expat mom with 4 children.  Two of them, my twins, have special needs: Asthma, ADHD and Autism.  I’d like to share my experience as a pa...

Quick answer: There is no ONE broad stroke of interventions that will hold the magic key.  

But YES…with the right information, research shows (and...

It’s a constant battle…trying to find the best content for my struggling reader.  Something that they will love, and has quality information that will...

Today, I was searching for a specialized program for one of my students. Nearly every tutoring service I explored emphasized the concept of the "summe...

Every school year, I was approached by worried parents and caretakers with this question:

 "Will my student’s reading difficulties go away? Will I ne...

Assessing reading progress is VERY important to moving the reader along at the JUST RIGHT pace.  For this to happen, the reading, strategies, and cont...

I love this picture above.  Learning at it’s finest!  These were my favorite moments as a teacher and reading specialist.

It captures the essence of ...

Learning anything new takes time.  Lots of little baby steps add up.  If a reader LOVES reading, you’ll see these steps move faster and faster, gainin...