4 Essentials for Teaching a Dyslexic Child to Read

Father reading to son

Reading Equals Academic Success Reading success means academic success. So, parents and teachers feel fear and frustration when a child seems unable to learn to read in spite of being bright, inquisitive, and having a great teacher. This situation generally indicates dyslexia. Dyslexia just means “doesn’t learn to read despite normal intelligence and education.” Dyslexic […]

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Help! My Smart Kid is Flunking Third Grade!

The Third Grade Wall I’m a dyslexia tutor. I get most of my new students around third grade. Why? Because they hit the “third-grade wall.” The wall refers to what happens to bright curious kids with dyslexia when the learn-to-read stage of school ends and the read-to-learn expectations start. The wall shuts them out of […]

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Fire Up Dyslexic Reading: Use Kindle Fire for Tracking

Kindle Fire + Dyslexia The new version of the Kindle Fire tablet comes with Immersion Reading. “Fire tablets can synchronize Kindle text with companion Audible audiobooks with real-time highlighting to create a more immersive reading experience, as well as deepen learning and comprehension. More than 60,000 Kindle books and companion Audible audiobooks are available across […]

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Overcoming Dyslexia, by Sally Shaywitz, M.D.: Book Review

Book Review: Overcoming Dyslexia, by Sally Shaywitz   WHY SOME PEOPLE CAN’T READ In Overcoming Dyslexia: A New and Complete Science-Based Program for Reading Problems at Any Level, Dr. Shaywitz does an outstanding job of describing dyslexia: “…seemingly diverse symptoms — trouble reading, absolute terror of reading aloud, problems spelling, difficulties finding the right word, mispronouncing […]

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