Sparking Curiosity and the Joy of Reading in My Kids
Nothing brings me more joy than sharing my love of reading with my children. I often say my kids can be anything they want but they must be readers. Whether you’re a parent, educator or book lover, we have the opportunity to spark curiosity and instill the joy of reading in the next generation. Here are a few of my favorite ways to integrate reading into the lives of my children.
Families
Aug 15, 2023
Back-to-School Planning: Using the Foundations and Essentials Planning Guides
My husband and I both work from home and both contribute to our children’s education. Because of this, planning is key to our homeschool success. The planning guides for Foundations and Essentials have taken the legwork out of my LOE planning process.
Mar 2, 2023
A Response to Sold a Story: A Parent’s Perspective
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
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
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
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
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
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 8, 2022
An Effective Reading Strategy That Helped Me Learn to Read in Another Language
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
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!
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?
Aug 8, 2022
A Mother’s Journey: Struggling Readers and the Science of Reading
I stopped torture reading with the boys and went back to reading books aloud to them…Within three months, something amazing happened: they began reading chapter books! They read The Chronicles of Narnia, Warrior, and Redwall. They loved reading! At the time I wondered, how was that possible?
Aug 8, 2022
Uncovering the Logic of English: From Memorization and Repetition to a World of Sounds
Memorizing words, guessing definitions, looking for synonyms, and watching Netflix® (with subtitles, of course) should not be the only way children or adults learn English. For me, Uncovering the Logic of English was the missing piece of a forgotten puzzle.