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Thinking While You’re Reading: Metacognitive Strategies
Imagine yourself picking up a book called Current Trends In Relativistic Astrophysics: Theoretical, Numerical, Observational, and attempt to read it without any prior background knowledge, education,...
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Quick Post: Book Share–Phonics and Word Study for Struggling Readers
Looking for decodable texts for your older struggling readers? Those books and resources are hard to find … but this book has it all. Phonics and Word Study for Struggling Readers Grades 4-6 has been a...
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Fiction versus Nonfiction
I’m going to blow my stack … just bear with me. Please fellow teachers, please do NOT teach students that fiction is fake and nonfiction is real. Fiction is STORY and nonfiction is INFORMATIONAL. You...
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Quick Post: Video: The Happy Secret to Optimize Learning ….
Video by TED: Optimal Learning Environments … ENJOY! The Happy Secret to Better Work and Learning Success … Shawn Achor, Psychologist
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Reading Innovations Center
It’s amazing how fast things can happen … and when I started this blog, I never thought I would be sitting here pitching my new business. After being furloughed last year, I grieved, and grieved, and...
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Teaching Sight Words–Use Sign Language!
Sight words are the bane of every early language learner. These sneaky little words often can’t be decoded by using conventional phonics rules or context clues, and they have little or no visual...
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Summer Brain Drain–It’s Real!
Summer brain drain–it’s real–and for many years, educators have lamented about how much students seem to lose what they have learned in school over the summer–particularly if those students are...
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Severe Reading Problems–Don’t Teach More of the Same Thing
Recently I was reading an article from a well-known educator’s website that promotes reading. Though the organization is not a research-based one, it claimed that NO special interventions should be...
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Quick Post: Dislecksia, The Movie
The much acclaimed comedic documentary Dislecksia will be shown at Mercyhurst University at the Taylor Little Theatre on November 9th at 2:15 pm and 7:15 pm. Check out the links for more information!...
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3+3 And You Can Read: Easy Comprehension Activities for Families
As a reading specialist and tutor, I make sure that I provide parents with activities they can use with their children to reinforce good reading. It’s very important to provide simple, yet pithy...
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Quick Post: Excellent Method for Teaching Spelling Words!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CpZAH6elIc
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Submerged in Work!
I’ve been submerged in work, which is a good thing; however, this has not left me much time to write posts. I’m heading into finishing up my second year of being in business and I have learned so much...
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The Most Basic Reading Skill: Tracking
This is my quick tip of the week. You can also listen to this podcast on www.read-innovate-center.com and www.TheEclecticReadingTeacher.com, iTunes, or SoundCloud. Episode 1: The Most Basic Reading...
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Silent Sustained Reading: Why It Works
Silent sustained reading or SSR, otherwise known as DEAR (Drop Everything And Read), etc., has received a bit of bad press recently both from the International Reading Association and the National...
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Struggling Vs. Dyslexic Readers
Struggling Vs. Dyslexic Readers Yes, there is a difference between the two, but most of the time these students are lumped together into one category as if all interventions will be the same for them....
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They Have Bigger Fish to Fry–Why Basic Student Needs Are Ignored
Today I was talking to a tutor about why a particular student was making a gross error in her subtraction of numbers. Apparently when the student was borrowing numbers, she was adding 10 to the number...
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Reading Fluency and a Misguided Intervention
CURRENTLY I am working with a student who has an auditory processing disorder and struggles quite a bit with reading. He’s made quite a bit of progress and I’m confident he will be a strong reader in a...
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