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read moreMultisensory Teaching: Accommodating the Twelve Ways of Processing
Teachers dream of well-mannered and gracious students who eagerly grasp content and contribute to their lessons. Some of us have been fortunate enough to experience one of these exceptional educators and others have only heard about them. Remarkably, they seem to be...
read moreThe Little “Read” Hen: A Writing Residency
Using my book, The Little “Read” Hen, the 4th grade students of Caldwell Middle School experienced a fun and fast-paced creative writing workshop that highlighted the steps of story writing: brainstorming, researching, outlining, drafting, editing, and proofing. I...
read moreFactoid Friday: Homework Woes
56% of young people say they read more than 10 books a year, with middle school students reading the most. Some 70% of middle school students read more than 10 books a year, compared with only 49% of high school students. - National Education Association press...
read moreNeurology for Five-Year-Olds?
A recent article examined the idea that children are taught too little about their own brains. http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2012/04/what-kids-should-know-about-their-own-brains/ It sounds a bit crazy, but actually makes real sense. Research over the last decade has...
read moreFamous Dyslexics: Ann Bancroft
Unless you are a National Geographic junkie, you may not have heard of Ann Bancroft. In 1986, she journeyed by dogsled 1000 miles from northern Canada to the North Pole, becoming the first woman to do so. She followed up this feat by later making history in South...
read moreADD vs APD: When an Attention Issue is Really an Auditory Issue
When your child is struggling in school, you want to get to the root of the issue as quickly as possible. Nowadays there is more awareness about a wide spectrum of learning problems. Most teachers receive some training about the major diagnoses, and...
read moreFun Game for Letter Flipping Confusion
I am a firm believer that students learn by doing and practicing (over and over!). We cannot simply tell a student to read and write, they have to learn it by doing it! For many students the process of learning these skills comes naturally as they progress through...
read moreSchool Vision: Vision for Life
Dyslexia has become a recognised condition that affects the learning ability of many children in the U.K. It is highly likely that difficulties that fall within the dyslexic spectrum (including dyscalculia and dysgraphia) may relate to vision, and in particular, to...
read moreFactoid Friday: Poor literacy can be fatal
The effects of poor literacy on an individual can be wide-reaching as well as deep: we’ve covered quite a bit of ground in recent articles, from gender-related effects to prison sentences. A recent article on the BBC outlined the potential that poor literacy has to...
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