My job as a teacher who specializes in literacy is to provide learning opportunities that inspire a reader to enjoy the process of thinking

It is important to know words by sight because readers are able to spend less time on automatic word recognition and more time on understand

Sight words are the words that a reader should identify by sight. High-Frequency words are the words that appear most often in literature.

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....

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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....

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...

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

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

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

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...