Is your child skipping words or lines of text? Find out why and how to help
If you get an eye test for your child and there are no issues, then vision is not contributing to your child’s reading difficulties… right? The answer is a bit more complex than simply “yes or no”. Eyesight is not actually the only measure of visual difficulty.
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What is Guessing and is it a Reading Problem?
Guessing while reading is difficult for some parents to identify because they only think of it as guessing from the first letter on unfamiliar words. Moreover, some parents do not realize that any form of guessing constitutes a reading problem
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The Best Thing You Can Do for Reading Fluency
Choppy, hesitant reading got you down? Does your child’s lack of fluency affect her comprehension? There is a simple trick that you can apply to your child’s reading practice to accelerate his reading fluency.
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What Can Happen in 10 Days? Annika and the 10-day free trial
Before starting our free trial, Annika was desperate to learn to read. Her mother, Talen, had spent the summer teaching Annika, but reading practice had become a daily battle, with tears all around. Both Talen and Annika were tired of the frustration, and they were both open to trying something new
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Why your visual learner is struggling to read
Do you see your child constantly guessing when trying to read a sentence? Maybe they crack the word “elephant” no problem but seem to stumble over “for” or “from”?
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5 Easy tips to help you take sharper, better, more professional-looking images of your child
At Easyread, we love seeing pictures of your children reading! As a professional photographer and parent, I know how meaningful those pictures can be. Today, I wanted to offer 5 simple tips to help you take sharp, beautiful, more professional-looking images of your children.
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3 reasons to start your own Little Lending Library (and how to do it!)
These “little free libraries” offer neighborhoods and families a chance to share their used books with others in the community. Here we provide three great reasons to start a little free library for your neighborhood, and we offer some suggestions for where you should look to learn how to build one of your own.
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Making sense of your child’s report card: an interview with US literacy expert, Sheri Nelson
For many of our families in the US, it’s report card season. If you grew up with the traditional report card, which listed your grades as A, B, C, D, or F, then you might be perplexed by the new grading systems.
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Why do some children read more than others?
Some children read more than others. Is this because of their reading ability? Or is it the other way round, so the amount of text a child consumes determines their reading ability? I discuss new findings on the topic and what this means about how we should help strugglers.
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How to help your child make reading gains when school’s out for summer
“Learning loss” might be real—every summer, children likely do lose some of the hard-won skills they acquired during the school year. However, there are real, cost-effective ways you can help make the most of this summer so that your struggling reader finally gets ahead.
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