Have you ever found yourself asking, “Why does my child have so much difficulty learning sight words ?” or, “Why does my child read the word correctly on one page and then read it incorrectly on the next?” The answer…
Reading with your child just 15 minutes a day can have a positive life-long impact on learning. Getting your little one engaged is more meaningful than how many books you read in that short amount of time because quality is…
It is time to go back to school! (Hard to believe, right?!) Keep those reading skills sharp all year long with a solid routine and these easy-to-follow tips.1. Create a special space for reading: Make this space warm and inviting.…
Regular use of story time and book reading at home can provide many literacy benefits in the areas of emergent and early literacy. Emergent literacy skills are early concepts, skills and positive attitudes toward reading and early literacy skills are…
We first learned about “The Word Gap” in the famous 1995 study by Betty Hart and Todd Risley entitled “The Early Catastrophe”. The results of their research indicated that low income babies and toddlers are exposed to 30,000 fewer words…