Guest Blog The Literacy Challenge: An Urgent Issue and a Path to Solutions We are facing an increasingly dismal literacy crisis.  This problem has been restated thousands of times by politicians, pediatricians, desperate mothers, and educators. There is no time to spend on repeating what is known. Spoiler alert: There is a solution to the […]

Reading is a fundamental skill that opens doors to knowledge, imagination, and success. However, teaching children to read effectively has been debated and researched for decades. Among the various methodologies that have emerged, including balanced literacy, traditional phonics or a Print-to-Speech approach, and Structured Linguistic Literacy (SLL) or a Speech-to-Print approach, educators and private practitioners […]

If you can spell a word (by sound, not memorization), you can read that word! The reverse is not typically true. Many competent to exceptional readers do not excel in spelling, but exceptional spellers almost always excel in reading.  Why is that? Even though reading and spelling are ‘two sides of the same coin’, meaning […]