Read alouds are one of those things almost every family does beautifully for a few years and then quietly stops. Your child learns to read a little. You get busy. Bedtime gets later. The ritual stops. This post shares why stopping was a mistake, along with the benefits to your child at any age. […]
A school district in New York just spent $57,590 on a humanoid robot named Sally, then hit pause days before the robot reached the classroom. The story behind robots for education is messy, and a lot more revealing than the headlines. Robots for Education: It Happened in New York A small, rural school district in […]
My daughter Alexandrine was diagnosed with dyslexia in high school. She’ll tell you that she despised tutoring. Here’s what we’ve both learned about high school tutoring, including what to look for in a tutor and how to pay for it when the budget is tight. She Despised High School Tutoring She started in eleventh grade. […]
A struggling reader is most likely a kid who slipped past the early school years and then got very good at hiding it. They memorize, they guess, they lean on others. Their foundation is like Swiss cheese and you need to fill in the gaps. Why Older Kids Slipped Through? Kids are incredible compensators. When […]
Somewhere between Elementary and High School the sentences in the books change. They get longer, twistier, and they start hiding who did what to whom inside layers of clauses. A perfectly fine reader in the lower grades can hit a wall without anything being wrong with them. New research suggests that sentence structure plays a […]
You’ve been told your whole life that real reading looks like a thick chapter book with no pictures. Real books are classic and timeless. Anything else is not “real” reading. That’s the wrong way to view graphic novels for kids and this post explains why. Graphic Novels for Kids Right around age nine, the number […]
