Sold a Story podcast is making teachers angry that they teach reading wrong “I feel guilty and tricked.” Group Member of The Facebook Group “The Science of Reading – What I Should Have Learned in College” Teachers all across America are listening to Emily Hanford’s podcast, Sold a Story, and they feel angry. Angry that…
Find out how summer tutoring can help your child avoid summer slide in reading from Orinda to Walnut Creek What is summer slide? And how does summer tutoring help? “’Summer slide’ refers to the loss in reading skills that can occur when students are not exposed to quality reading materials during the summer.” Raz-Kids and…
To discover if summer tutoring is a good idea, we identified 5 benefits of summer tutoring in Lamorinda Many parents might wonder if summer tutoring for their children is a good idea. You might remember your own summers as a time of freedom with hours of unstructured time to enjoy. You might want your child…
A question I sometimes get when I am first contacted by parents of struggling readers is “do you offer in-person tutoring?” I say, “Yes I do”, but let’s first do the FREE assessment online and go from there. IF YOUR CHILD IS Struggling with Reading We can help Why do the assessment online? There are…
Whole language and phonics: which is better? The different paths that my two daughters took, through their different schooling experiences (because of where I worked as a teacher) to learn to read, taught me that: 40% of children will learn to read after a year of instruction in first grade no matter the method and…
Dyslexia is a loaded word Only psychologists are allowed to say that someone has dyslexia. And, according to Sally Shaywitz M.D., because of limited resources and other issues, they only diagnose 4% of the student population with dyslexia even though 1 in 5 children show signs of dyslexia.1 That means 16% of struggling readers are…