Dyslexia

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Lots going on at Everyone Reading! We have a new website and a new email server. Our transition has been smooth but not completely...

First, do no harm! (Hippocratic Oath) Second, do not leave children back! (“There is no evidence, therefore, that holdovers make academic...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...