My little Ele, from the time she was mobile (she was walking by ten months) never wanted to sit still long enough to read a book. She...

This year marked a new school adventure for us. I applied as a teacher at our local Christian school and they offered me a job the...

Play requires risk. Play requires creativity. Play requires problem-solving skills. Play allows a learner to see and do.

I hope the last part of the title made sense, "from home at school" because parents can have an amazing role in their child's education.

Consider the similarities between reading and math skills to exercise. What happens when you stop for a considerable amount of time? Those g

Sight words are the words that a reader should identify by sight. High-Frequency words are the words that appear most often in literature.

Qualities of a quality reading teacher or tutor.

The world of curriculum is overwhelming? How a curriculum writer advises curriculum choices.

One of my clients shared Cincinnati Zoo's Home Safari daily Facebook LIVE event with me. My children LOVE it. Due to the fact that I'm...

I was speaking to one of my dearest teacher friends forced home due to the Coronavirus scare that we are currently facing as a world. She...

During the month of February, we read about President Lincoln. It was his birthday month and Presidents Day month, so I pulled out our...

Think about how you learn a new word and apply those same principles to your instruction. That is one way I think about instruction, the...

Readers need a toolbox full of tools for them to use to enable them to understand whatever they read (assigned or not) to the best of...

An important aspect to teach readers is how to self-monitor their misunderstandings. Good readers have a few fix-it strategies in their...

Seasoned, independent readers automatically process text by predicting, asking questions, connecting, visualizing, fixing mistakes,...