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If reading has felt heavy in your home, this is your reframe. When your child or teen reads a word “wrong,” your first instinct is to correct it. That’s a loving instinct — and it’s also the moment when the most useful information a reading session can give you disappears. Because every reading “mistake” is…
If your child is in reading remediation and you’ve started to wonder whether it’s actually helping — you’re not imagining it. You’ve watched them sit through more drills, more worksheets, more phonics practice. Maybe they’ve been pulled out of the parts of school they actually love. And the progress is still slow. Or invisible. Or…
Three days before school started, an eighth-grader named Nick lost the one class he had been looking forward to all summer. Nick was a gifted artist, and eighth grade was the first year he was eligible to take a daily elective. He’d waited all summer for it. Then the letter came: his reading scores were…
Fifteen years ago, I sat across a table from a principal who told me my six-year-old couldn’t read. He handed me six graphs. Every single one flatlined. The word “educational neglect” was said out loud — a legal term for child abuse. I’m a certified learning specialist. My husband is an educator. We had been…
If your child has been labeled “below level” in reading, but something in your gut keeps saying that’s not the whole story — pay attention to that feeling. The label may be measuring the reading situation, not the reader. And once you can see the difference, the path forward gets a lot clearer. This isn’t…
AI: Protecting the Reading-and-Thinking Brain in an AI World For a long time, I’ve been quiet on the topic of AI. Not because it doesn’t matter. Obviously, it does! But because I needed time to understand the tools… and the trajectory. One thing is certain: while AI is changing how students access information, it does…
The following article was first published in 2021, during the thick of the pandemic. We wanted to share this article again because the learning value of digital media still remains true to this day! We are both educators, but you can stick a fork in us… we’re DONE! We’ve always said that we could never…
Test anxiety is very common. However, I’ve come to realize that the more we, as parents, try to help our children alleviate that anxiety, we often add to it… accidentally, of course. Jim, a parent using SOAR, recently contacted us with a great question about how he can best help his child. I thought our conversation…
Folders, pens, backpacks, pencil cases, paper, planners, binders… You’ve stocked up on nearly every back-to-school item you and your child can think of. But, you’re probably still missing the most important tool. Don’t feel bad, you’re not alone. With all of the back-to-school ads from the big-box office supply stores, we’re led to believe that…
Tips for getting your school-year off to a relaxed and productive start. Gearing up for back-to-school can be a bit overwhelming; there is a lot to do, a lot of transitions to navigate, and often a sense of blues as the realization that summer has, once again, gone by too fast. However, you can easily…
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