Qualities of a quality reading teacher or tutor.

Implementing best research-based practices into spelling instruction every day of the week.

How are you? "Actually, my husband and I are so discouraged and I'm actually amazed at the timing of seeing you today - of all times. You specialize in read...

The world of curriculum is overwhelming? How a curriculum writer advises curriculum choices.

I can speak to Rebecca Treiman's statement in her book, Beginning to Spell, If learning to spell were a natural by-product of learning to read, our task woul...

One of my clients shared Cincinnati Zoo's Home Safari daily Facebook LIVE event with me. My children LOVE it. Due to the fact that I'm already providing read...

I was speaking to one of my dearest teacher friends forced home due to the Coronavirus scare that we are currently facing as a world. She joked that she is g...

During the month of February, we read about President Lincoln. It was his birthday month and Presidents Day month, so I pulled out our Who Was Abraham Lincol...

I'm going to write this post as I would a lesson: Connect & Reflect Every reader struggles. No matter the level of your education, the depth of your vocabula...

When I created a grammar unit to establish a solid grammar foundation for my little grammarian, I included a section in the student workbook for grammarians ...

Think about how you learn a new word and apply those same principles to your instruction. That is one way I think about instruction, the second (and more imp...

I created a video about this topic on IGTV as well (you can watch it by clicking here) and I basically took said there and wrote it here. You can either watc...

Readers need a toolbox full of tools for them to use to enable them to understand whatever they read (assigned or not) to the best of their ability. That's w...

There are reasons why it's necessary to differentiate between the genres. But I will focus on three main concepts teachers and parents must teach: text featu...

An important aspect to teach readers is how to self-monitor their misunderstandings. Good readers have a few fix-it strategies in their toolbox that help the...

Seasoned, independent readers automatically process text by predicting, asking questions, connecting, visualizing, fixing mistakes, making inferences, analyz...

In October I wrote about the necessity of phonics as a precursor to fluency. I believe this to be necessary so that readers spend less cognitive time on deco...

Do you have students in your class or homeschool room that lack expression, ignore punctuation, read so quickly (or slowly) that they're difficult to underst...

As soon as my kindergartner mastered phonics, we began her first grade year learning what it meant to be a fluent reader. I knew that direct fluency was nece...

Let's get down to the basics and what the research reveals about how to approach teaching a beginning reader to read. It's pretty simple, yet it is a dauntin...