Is your middle school aged child being taken out of class to work on reading but they are still working on phonics and the types of things 1st graders are working on year after year? Or do you home school and you choose a phonics-based reading program for your child, probably an Orton-Gillingham-based program, because you wanted them to become a confident, fluent reader—but they are still struggling to read with confidence? If so, you may be making a very understandable mistake: assuming that...

By the way It’s also a Myth that Good Readers Don’t Struggle With Spelling Have you ever noticed that often when your child is sounding out a word they do not actually spell it correctly even though they really tried to sound it out. Maybe this happens to you as well. Sometimes even people who are good readers struggle to become good spellers. This is very common. You may have read the word hundreds of times but you still do not know how to spell it. Perhaps you have been told over and over...

Have you ever watched your child struggle to read a page or even just a word and wondered, “Why is this so hard for them?” and “Will it ever get easier?” You know how important reading is. It affects school, future opportunities, and everyday independence. You want your child to be able to pick up a book and read it independently—you want them to know the joy of reading for pleasure. To be able to learn new ideas and to travel through time and space to places they may never visit in real...