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How To Guide a Summer Reading Camp Using the Essentials Reader

When it comes to summer camps for striving readers, I have found that convincing an older student who has struggled with reading to participate and put forth effort is often the biggest hurdle.

The Red Breve

May 11, 2023

How To Guide a Summer Reading Camp Using the Essentials Reader

Dr. Christy Jones

The phonograms and spelling rules will make a huge difference in students' ability to read and spell but if you approach it through fun and with doable expectations, you will also help students rebuild their self-confidence and hopefully reignite their love for reading and writing as well!

Apr 6, 2023

Three Ways To Help Develop Phonemic Awareness at Home and in the Classroom

Denise Eide

For students to become strong readers and spellers, teachers must help them develop their phonemic awareness skills like blending and segmenting. Practicing blending words from an auditory prompt prepares students for reading success.

Mar 2, 2023

A Response to Sold a Story: A Parent’s Perspective

Guest Blogger

There is nothing like seeing the joy on my daughter’s face as she learns new sound after new sound and increasingly puts those sounds together to discover words that she recognizes.

Feb 2, 2023

Response to Sold a Story: A Designer’s Perspective

Whitney Jackson

Creating change doesn’t come from the outside in or the top down. Real change is made by truly adapting from the inside out. I feel so fortunate to work for a company comprised of passionate individuals striving to support accuracy and equity in reading education.

Jan 5, 2023

Our Brains Are Very Special - The Letterbox at Play

Nichool Castro

Reading is not hardwired in the brain, but a skill that can be learned…and training our brain's letterbox is a step in the process.

Dec 22, 2022

A Response to Sold a Story: Explaining Away the Evidence

Denise Eide

Listening to Sold a Story, I have never been more hopeful; hopeful about our mission to equip every teacher and parent with this information; hopeful that we can move from talking about the research to implementing the research.

Dec 22, 2022

A Response to Sold a Story: Baubled Bangled Christmas Tree

Denise Eide

I believe that when every parent and teacher can answer their students’ questions about words, we will see a dramatic change in literacy rates.

Sep 29, 2022

Ingrid’s Art: Where Any Child Can Feel Represented

Nichool Castro

She desires that when a child opens one of the books she has illustrated, they see themselves there. “A book where any child feels represented,” said Ingrid,...

Sep 27, 2022

Ingrid Hess: The Illustrator Behind the Doodling Dragons Series and Foundations Curriculum

Guest Blogger

As an artist, I use design to empower elementary school teachers and their students by creating teaching tools focusing on social justice issues such as peace, economic justice, diversity, environmental issues, education, and... literacy.

Sep 8, 2022

An Effective Reading Strategy That Helped Me Learn to Read in Another Language

Nichool Castro

Even though my parents were not trained as reading teachers, their dedication and support taught me the skills needed to read in Spanish and later in English. 

Aug 25, 2022

Five Phonics Myths

Denise Eide

Phonics: A seven-letter word that can cause a ruckus in any room. Despite billions of dollars in reading research, this simple word has been at the center of an educational debate and a great deal of confusion. Much of this confusion is due to the persistence of five myths about phonics.

Aug 9, 2022

Let's GROW Emerging Reading Skills Over the Summer!

Kim Wright

We know from research that when the brain is active and engaged while learning, learning moves to long-term memory, and it sticks. Why not take some time on the sunshiney summer days to review reading skills in a fun and active way and thus grow strong reading branches?
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