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Developing Reading Fluency

There is nothing like the feeling of relief and success you feel when your child begins to actually read!  Suddenly, each and every word isn’t a struggle, sentences start to sound like connected words, and most importantly your child feels Read more…


Making Sight Words Fun!

In my last post I talked about the value of teaching reading with whole words along with Orton-Gillingham phonic instruction.  I am not interested in engaging in the reading wars, I just want to make people aware that there is Read more…


Phonics? Whole Word? Both? What’s Best?

Many people who teach children with dyslexia will be quick to respond that phonics, specifically Orton-Gillingham based phonics, is the only way to effectively teach reading.  It is effective in the long term, which is backed by multiple studies, but Read more…