How Speech-to-Print Speaks to Me
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Guest Blogger Harriett Janetos, Reading Specialist Author, From Sound to Summary: Braiding the Reading Rope to Make Words Make Sense Speech-to-Print first spoke to me when I was co-teaching a…
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Harriett Janetos, Reading Specialist Author, From Sound to Summary: Braiding the Reading Rope to Make Words Make Sense When Ed Young’s seven blind mice find a “strange something” in the pond, they set…
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Bursting with Knowledge: Are We Overteaching Phonics?
Guest Blogger Harriett Janetos, Reading Specialist Author, From Sound to Summary: Braiding the Reading Rope to Make Words Make Sense When it comes to teaching foundational reading skills, sometimes ignorance…
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The Devil Is in the Details of Differentiation: Meditations from a Mere Mortal, Merely Teaching
Differentiation matters. But it’s a matter of dosage and degree as well as desirability. Kids have preferences, and sometimes theirs don’t align with those of their parents or their teachers.
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The Vanishing Act in The Balancing Act
When a pendulum swings in education, how do we track its collateral damage?
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Do Our Literacy Heroes Fail Us, Or Do We Fail Ourselves?
"I've been wondering whether my hero worship says more about me and the allure of aspiration than it does about my idols."
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Long Island School District Embraces the Science of Reading
No other district I know of has made such a commitment to a structured phonics approach. In Lynbrook, the kids are now taught to “say the sounds and read the word” right from the start.
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Advice for Parents and Their Children with Dyslexia
As parents, we need to put aside our frustration, anxiety, comparisons and just saddle up next to our children to let them know we are on their team.
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The Word Wasp: Affordable, Effective Reading Intervention
High Five Literacy and Academic Coaching is proud to offer support to any parent wanting to try the Hornet Literacy Primer or Word Wasp program. Please see our new Facebook group, Word Wasp USA Support. This collaboration was designed to provide American families with an affordable, effective reading intervention program that offers the same results as OG.
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Can You See Me?
But, just like the old waiter who unknowingly gave a lifeline to one of our greatest actors, we must first “see” those who struggle or have been marginalized.
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