by Stephen | Oct 31, 2020 | dyslexia, dyslexics, learning to read, phonics games
Are Phonological Awareness Skills a Needed Bridge Are phonological awareness skills a path to reading? Phonological Awareness is the ability to hear rhymes. Usually rhymes are a 2 to 3 sound fragment at the end of each word. This skill may be a step to sound out new...
by Stephen | Oct 30, 2020 | dyslexia, dyslexics, learning to read, phonics games, Reading Problems
What Are The Reading Problems in Elementary Education Reading problems in elementary education are very common. The top 3 reading problems are are decoding i.e. sounding out words, speed and comprehension. This article will focus on decoding and...
by Stephen | Oct 18, 2020 | learning to read, phonics games
Helping Your Child Read Helping your child read confidently is a great gift. Only 30% of children learn to read with ease. The rest find it difficult. This is because the English language has 13 vowels, but only 5 vowel letters. So the child is forced to guess...
by Stephen | Oct 17, 2020 | dyslexia, dyslexics, learning to read, phonemic awareness, phonics games
The Dyslexia Controversy What happens when you are dyslexic? The common myth is that it is a visual problem, but Dr. Sally Shaywitz from Yale proved it was an auditory problem. (Yes, you can find it on the Internet today 20 years after her groundbreaking research.)...
by Stephen | Oct 15, 2020 | learning to read, phonics games
Using Grade Level Reading To Do Schoolwork Ziya loves to read, but not her textbooks. The main reason I started working with Ziya is because if she doesn’t read at grade level by third grade she has a 50% unemployment rate for the rest of their life....
by Stephen | Oct 10, 2020 | learning to read, phonics games, VPK - school readiness
Preschool’s Emergent Reader Assessments Are A Problem Each year schools are asked to do more and more based on the political whims of the day. As a result they have less time for basic academics – reading, writing and arithmetic. Kindergarten which...
