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...
by Stephen | Oct 9, 2020 | dyslexia, learning to read, phonics games
Dyslexia Symptoms Dyslexia symptoms include trouble learning nursery rhymes, mispronouncing familiar words, not recognize rhyming patterns and a family history. (For a more complete list see Yale Dyslexia.) The constant in all this is low phonemic awareness or...
by Stephen | Oct 5, 2020 | learning to read, phonemic awareness, phonics games
The Sounds Of The Letters Can Be Confusing The sounds of the letters can be confusing English has 36 sounds, but only 26 letters. For millennia people have used letter combinations to make up the difference except for vowels. But vowels are in every...
by Stephen | Oct 4, 2020 | learning to read, phonics games
Children Readers From Children’s Games Children love to play. Why not create games that teach the essential reading skills? Develop children readers from playing children’s games. In essence, this is what I did to teach my daughter to read and by...
by Stephen | Sep 26, 2020 | dyslexia, learning to read, phonemic awareness, phonics games
Dyslexia is Curable, But The War Is For The Heart Of The Child My brother and I are dyslexic. (It is a genetic problem usually and runs in the family. Although you can teach someone to be dyslexic.) Dyslexia is curable if treated in elementary school. Our...
by Stephen | Sep 20, 2020 | dyslexia, learning to read, phonics games
The New Dyslexia Definition The New Dyslexia Definition from the Yale studies is that dyslexia is poor reading skills due to low phonemic awareness, and it can be cured. If you found my site chances are you were referred by a friend. I love helping little kids learn...