One of my favorite methods of teaching a student to read is often referred to as the Clozure technique. It’s easy to do and provides a good and fun bonding time. It can be done by either snuggling up close Read More …
Category: Hope for the Reader
They Can’t Learn to Read
Often I’ve seen students take me off guard. I’ve been assigned to work with students and told, I was wasting my time trying to teach them how to read because “they’ll never learn to.” It’s an unfair statement. It also Read More …
Writing Stories
Invented spelling is an important stage of students learning to read and write. It builds confidence in the process as the teacher supports them through the process to conventional spelling. Students learn they can write stories and share them with Read More …
Enjoy Books with Children and Develop Some Reading Skills
Books should be read over and over to children. Most children enjoys this and it can be a bonding moment between parents and the child. While reading the book, comments can be made about the language, such as where words Read More …
Summer’s Here
Summer is here and it may seem unfair to have a student who struggles with school work spend their free time doing more academic work, but the opposite is true. This is the time to get in some frequent and Read More …
Are There Visual Therapies for Dyslexia
Having worked in both the field of visual impairments and dyslexia disabilities, personal experience says no. I have worked with blind students who had dyslexia and I have worked students with typical vision who had dyslexia. There is evidence to Read More …
Whole Language and Reading Disabilities
Many children enter into school without the necessary skills for being successful in school. Sometimes it is because they are an English Language Learner and have not had enough exposure to English to allow them to speak it fluently. Some Read More …
Graded Reading Texts and Older Students
Students who struggle with reading soon become resistant to it. As a result their vocabulary and academic knowledge grows further and further behind. When a book is pulled for the child to read for “fun,” careful consideration should be given Read More …
Don’t Give Up on Your Readers
I use the Barton Reading & Spelling System to teach students who have dyslexia or symptoms of dyslexia to learn how to read. I have found this system to be very effective and even used it when I taught students with Read More …
Will Reading Always Be Hard?
They say that most children who are read to and exposed to books from early on should pick up reading easily. Unfortunately, that isn’t true for all children. Some children struggle. No matter how hard they try, they just can’t Read More …