Many parents know the moment it happens: your child learns letter sounds, reads simple books, and then progress stops. Weeks pass with little change and reading time gets frustrating for everyone. The good news: this early reader plateau is very common. In 30 years as a reading specialist, I’ve found simple shifts in reading practice …

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Is your kid falling a little behind in school? Read on to learn some symptoms showing that your child might be dyslexic.

Learning how to read is exciting for a child, then as they progress through school, reading is an essential part of learning, but what about reading for pleasure? Once something is categorized as a ‘must’ for school-aged children it can be difficult to help them reframe the activity. Reading is a good example of an …

Given the importance of literacy, it’s natural to be keen to encourage your child to read and to become an enthusiastic, independent reader. However, it can be all too easy to feel pressured by this, especially when your child is resistant to reading even for short bursts of 15 minutes. This situation can be frustrating, …

High reading skills are essential for every child. The faster your kids read, and the quicker they comprehend information, the more knowledge they can gain in all subjects. If you want your son and daughter to succeed in school and life, you should find a way to increase their reading skills. Are you eager to …

If you’re a fan of reading yourself, you most likely want to pass your love of books onto your child. But children aren’t born readers. In fact, it’s often the case that if kids aren’t encouraged to read when they’re younger, they’ll miss out on the magic of the experience, and are unlikely to want …

This is simply as stated our ultimate resource list of direct links to the websites of our pre-primary, primary, and secondary open educational resources providers, if we have missed anyone please contact me or leave a comment I will review and add them! Resources are listed in order of their volume of content from our …

El Tigre – This is the Spanish version of Watch Out the Tiger is Here. A Tiger one of the biggest cat in the world, it needs to hunt often, but why is that everyone always knows he is here? Find out in Watch Out the Tiger is Here, a short beautifully illustrated picturebook for …

Clark Ness has an amazingly large set of learning to read books available. His site includes literally thousands of easy readers, phonics based readers, sight word books, and much, much more. This set here is just a sample of some of his work using the open dyslexic font. The set in this post contains the …