Why Your Child Can Read Fluently but Struggles with Comprehension It can be confusing—and frustrating—when your child can read a passage...

What Are Learning Goals? As a parent, you want to help your child thrive academically and personally. Setting learning goals  is one of...

Why I Hated Parent-Teacher Conferences as a Child?  For me, elementary school was a living nightmare. Aside from being held back in third...

While teaching 3rd grade, I would spend the first month of school reteaching 2nd-grade content. When I would ask my beginning of the year...

If your child struggles with reading fluency and you find it difficult to listen to him or her read aloud, this blog post is for you!...

Have you ever driven a car? Recently, I learned how to drive a car, and I must say, I DO NOT LIKE DRIVING. When driving a car there are...

Empowering Your Child: How to Cope with Back-to-School Jitters? The Summer season is coming to an end, and this means Back-to-School...

9 Things to Do to Beat The Summer Slide When I think of summer, I think about going to the water park and getting on the water slide. Or...

"I’m not a good reader." "I hate reading." "I’ll never get better at reading." "Learning to read is just too hard." As a child, these...

2 Things A Reluctant & Struggling Reader Have In Common? Is your child a reluctant or struggling reader? When children have reading challenges, they are often grouped into one category: struggling reader . However, children struggle with reading for different reasons , and understanding why  makes all the difference. Some children have difficulty sounding out words, remembering what they read, or identifying rhyming words. Others can  read—but simply refuse to do so. To sim