In my last blog, I addressed reading as not a natural process, that it must be systematically taught, practiced daily, and is only mastered with a great deal of time, energy, and patience on everyone’s part. In that same blog, I detailed how the brain accesses
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Speaking is a natural process. Tiny humans begin copying what they hear in the form of early speech so that by the time they are two years-old, children are repeating what they hear and asking for more information. Reading is not a natural process. Those same
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In my first year of teaching, I taught first-grade. I had twenty-seven students from a variety of cultures, socioeconomic lifestyles, and family tapestries. Some arrived early and helped take the classroom of chairs down from the desks, others arrived frustrated to be late and hurried to
Read MoreYou’re a parent and you’ve worked a long day. Maybe in an office with deadline demands. Maybe in a healthcare facility with life and death decisions. Maybe in a classroom with thirty-plus students needing direction and support in every lesson you teach. You may have spent
Read MoreReading begins at home with a parent reading a book to their child long before the child recognizes the letters on the page or the words the letters create. Reading begins with bright colors on a page that eventually form pictures the child recognizes. Both parent
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