Jun 21, 2016 | DM News Blog, Parent Reviews
Homeschool mum and parent blogger, Self-led Learning, posts an honest, unaffiliated review about her and her daughter R’s Easyread journey. “It took 80 lessons for the really big breakthrough but early on her confidence had already increased and her...
Jun 21, 2016 | DM News Blog, Parent Reviews
“When we signed up we thought we’d do it for a couple of months, but Arlo’s loved it so much, and has made such phenomenal progress, that we ended up completing the whole programme! Without your programme Arlo would have been another dismal reading...
Jun 15, 2016 | DM News Blog, Parent Reviews, Teacher Reviews
Hi David I just wanted to share this with you. On our own assessments, that purely test de-coding skills, Cameron started Easyread in Year3 at 4 years and 3 months. He is now in Year4 at lesson 349 and we have done his final test, which has come out at 10 years and 2...
Jun 14, 2016 | DM News Blog
Is there such a thing as starting too early, when it comes to reading to your child? In an interview with Time Magazine, Dr Pamela High said the image of her son’s babysitter reading aloud from a book of her own whilst they sat in a rocking chair made a big...
Jun 9, 2016 | DM News Blog, Parent Reviews
Even though we’ve had a very busy month (thank you again for all of your support during our Virgin Media Business Awards campaign!) we couldn’t forget our Breakthrough Readers of the month! So please join us in congratulating our secret agents who have been awarded...
Jun 7, 2016 | DM News Blog
Experienced teacher of over 40 years, Rita Pierson, is a woman after our own hearts with her techniques for positive praise in the classroom to promote a growth mindset. If a child has received a lower score than they would have liked in a test, Rita will mark their...
Jun 2, 2016 | DM News Blog
Chief Minister of the Northern Territory, Australia, faces calls to resign after dyslexia jibes made against a Labour Parliamentarian, The Guardian reports. Adam Giles, Chief Minister, said of the future Labour government: “Let us hope the dyslexic member for...
May 24, 2016 | DM News Blog
Just a message to say a HUGE thank you for supporting project Peasyread! Even though we probably won’t have made it to the VOOM pitchathon, your support and pledges have meant so much to us. We’re going to continue working on creating our fun and easy app,...
May 20, 2016 | DM News Blog
With 4 days to go, we still need your help! If you haven’t already, then please take 30 seconds to vote for our free reading app for every child. https://www.vmbvoom.com/pitches/peasyread/ If there’s 1, 2, 3, maybe 4 or 5 people you haven’t told...
May 17, 2016 | DM News Blog
Hi everybody! Thanks so much for all your votes and shares and pledges so far – it means the world to us. As it stands, we are at 275th in the start-up leadership board. We need to get into the top 80 and still be there by 11:59pm GMT on Monday the 23rd May. It...
May 12, 2016 | DM News Blog
As some of you have seen, we have been trialling some new games with our Easyread secret agents. Their feedback has been incredible, and we’re confident that we’re onto a winning prototype for a learn-to-read app, so that every child has the best possible...
May 4, 2016 | DM News Blog
Here at Oxford Learning Solutions, you know we are ALL about the positive praise. “Excellent”, “great job” and “keep up the great work, secret agent”. 5 positives to 1 negative phrase may seem like an unnaturally high ratio of...
May 4, 2016 | DM News Blog
The Iceberg Illusion of Success, by teacher, Sylvia Duckworth
Apr 29, 2016 | DM News Blog
Following an incredible month of breakthroughs for our secret agents in February, we had EVEN MORE reading breakthroughs around lesson 90 for our star readers of March. Without further ado, here are the names of our Breakthrough Readers of March, and the story of...
Apr 28, 2016 | DM News Blog
“Scientists have created an “atlas of the brain” that reveals how the meanings of words are arranged across different regions of the organ”, The Guardian reports. The colourful atlas shows how words and the concepts they create can be grouped...
Apr 22, 2016 | DM News Blog
Apr 22, 2016 | DM News Blog
A dyslexic programmer at Google, Charles Douglas-Osborn, has created a dyslexia-friendly extension for Google Chrome that will help facilitate internet usage for those struggling with reading. The extension currently allows users to: Read text out by underlining each...
Apr 21, 2016 | DM Case Studies, DM News Blog, Parent Reviews
Sapphi was struggling at school because she just didn’t get on with the traditional method of teaching phonics at all. From a struggling 5 year-old who took great pains to sound out every word on a page, only to forget the word on the next page, to reading (and...
Apr 15, 2016 | DM News Blog
The number of parents deciding to take their children out of mainstream schools and homeschool them is on the rise in the UK, according to the Guardian this week. The article features one homeschool mum, Martha Drew, and her two teenage children, who she decided to...
Apr 12, 2016 | DM News Blog
POW and WOW indeed! We had a phenomenal number of entries for the superhero short story competition. Each and every story was so imaginative, unique and gripping, and you could see every child’s personality shining through the words they wrote –...
