Parents Can Give Their Children the 4 Essentials of Literacy
A little intervention can go a long way to equip children with the intellectual tools to acquire learning in adverse conditions.
Reading Fluency Is Your Child’s Lifeline
No matter how the 2020 election turns out, the inequities of public education are not going to even out for a very long time. The child who can read fluently can still become an educated adult.
Computers and Beginning Reading Not a Good Combination
Writing has always come first.
Back-to-School Options in 2020
If harried parents can do nothing else for their children’s education during these distressing times, they can help them master the one academic skill that is the foundation on which formal education is built.
Dais—A Special Word Often Mispronounced
Daïs is another of these special words I associate with early reading experience.
Dastard and Dastardly
My first encounter with the word dastard came in eighth grade when I read Lochinvar by Sir Walter Scott in English class. For younger readers who may have missed out on a basic literary education because of the demands of standardized testing, I’d better give a little background. This wonderful narrative poem from Scott’s longer work, […]