Behind The Scenes: The Truth About Reading Documentary
The seed that led to my involvement in The Truth About Reading documentary was planted back in 1997. My daughter’s reading struggles at the time were the catalyst that diverted my career path from nursing to literacy. Since then, my hope, passion, and life’s work have been focused on the goal of high-level literacy for […]
How to Make Our Teaching Even Better: How We Teach is as Important as What We Teach
Materials don’t teach children how to read, teachers teach children how to read. I don’t remember where I read or heard that but I do repeat it a lot because it is an integral component of EBLI teacher training and ongoing support! When I was learning all I could about how to teach reading in […]
Segmenting WITH Letters: Accelerate Reading and Spelling Acquisition
Since soon after I first taught my daughter Colleen to read back in the mid 1990’s, an experience that set me on this obsessive literacy journey, I have been ultra-aware of the crucial role segmenting plays in reading as well as spelling. Colleen was in 2nd grade and could memorize words like a pro– both […]