December 10, 2018| Annual Conference, Dyslexia, News, Reading Workshops
At this very moment, the Grinch is creating those joy-killing Vacation Homework Packets. Don’t let him get the best of you. As your...
December 6, 2018| Uncategorized
I know this greeting is premature, but I can’t help telling you about a few of the things we have planned for 2019. First and foremost...
November 28, 2018| Dyslexia, Reading Workshops
A speech pathologist recently reminded me that, on any given day, about one third of the students in Grades K-2, can’t hear the teacher....
November 26, 2018| Dyslexia
‘Tis the gift to be simple, ’tis the gift to be free ‘Tis the gift to come down where we ought to be… Sang and danced...
November 16, 2018| Dyslexia
New York City children are getting more saintly by the minute. Everywhere I go, they are having visions. They are envisioning what will...
November 9, 2018| Annual Conference, Dyslexia
You may have sensed my despair at some popular instructional practices (a/k/a teacher and child abuse), but I am not yet prostrate with...
October 30, 2018| Dyslexia, Reading Workshops
On Saturday Night Live recently, Awkwafina (née Nora Lum) said that she was often asked if her father had an accent. Indeed he does. He...
October 22, 2018| Dyslexia, Reading Workshops
Why are we teaching phonics in fourth grade and asking first graders to do “deep reading” of words they haven’t been taught to read?...
September 21, 2018| Dyslexia
Mario Vargas Llosa started his Nobel Prize acceptance speech with his early memories of reading: “I learned to read at the age of five,...
