Tag: structured literacy

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A landmark meta-analysis from Graham and Hebert (2011) showed something that should have changed every reading curriculum in America but mostly didn’t: writing about what you read significantly improves comprehension. Not a little. Significantly.

Phonics Fixed Everything… Right? Why Reading Is Bigger Than Decoding

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Over the past five years, we’ve heard a lot about the “science of reading” and phonics. It’s been the big fix, the magic bullet, the thing that was going to transform struggling readers everywhere. And phonics absolutely matters. But here’s what nobody told you: phonics is necessary but it’s not sufficient.

Where Did All the Books Go? What’s Actually in Your Kid’s Reading Curriculum

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Remember when reading class meant reading a book? Not a two-page excerpt with a worksheet stapled to it. Not a passage pulled from some basal reader anthology. A book. A whole book. Something with a spine and pages you could turn and a story that unfolded over time. If you’re feeling nostalgic about that right…

Stop Debating Where Your Child Sits. Start Asking How They’re Being Taught.

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in Special Education Advocacy

If you have a child with an IEP, you have probably sat in a meeting and felt the full weight of this question: where should my child be taught? The inclusion debate has consumed special education for decades. Parents fight for general education classrooms. Schools push back. Other families pull their kids into self-contained settings…

Why Dyslexic Readers Stumble Over Simple Words Like ‘the,’ ‘of,’ and ‘by’

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You’ve watched your child read “caterpillar” out loud without skipping a beat. You felt that little swell of pride. Then two words later: “of.” A pause. A substitution. They say “or” instead, or just barrel past it and hope you didn’t notice. How does that happen? How can a kid decode a six-syllable word and…

The Reading Strategy You’ve Never Heard Of (But Should Absolutely Be Using)

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