Summer offers parents a unique opportunity to provide educational growth or setbacks. In my research, most parents have never even heard...

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

I read Elizabeth Bartholet’s attack of homeschooling on Harvard Magazines website, a day after I began writing a four-part blog series...

As parents, we are ALL in a unique position to offer our students the very best education possible. Parents are primarily responsible for

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

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

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...

I created a video about this topic on IGTV as well (you can watch it by clicking here) and I basically took said there and wrote it here....

There are reasons why it's necessary to differentiate between the genres. But I will focus on three main concepts teachers and parents...

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