The Science of Reading and Early Childhood Literacy: Using Play and Games To Inspire Confidence and Curiosity
Early childhood is also an ideal time to introduce children...
How To Guide a Summer Reading Camp Using the Essentials Reader
The phonograms and spelling rules will make a huge difference...
Three Ways To Help Develop Phonemic Awareness at Home and in the Classroom
For students to become strong readers and spellers, teachers must...
A Response to Sold a Story: A Parent’s Perspective
There is nothing like seeing the joy on my daughter’s...
Response to Sold a Story: A Designer’s Perspective
Creating change doesn’t come from the outside in or the...
Our Brains Are Very Special - The Letterbox at Play
Reading is not hardwired in the brain, but a skill...
A Response to Sold a Story: Explaining Away the Evidence
Listening to Sold a Story, I have never been more...
A Response to Sold a Story: Baubled Bangled Christmas Tree
I believe that when every parent and teacher can answer...
Ingrid’s Art: Where Any Child Can Feel Represented
She desires that when a child opens one of the...
Ingrid Hess: The Illustrator Behind the Doodling Dragons Series and Foundations Curriculum
As an artist, I use design to empower elementary school...
An Effective Reading Strategy That Helped Me Learn to Read in Another Language
Even though my parents were not trained as reading teachers,...
Five Phonics Myths
Phonics: A seven-letter word that can cause a ruckus in...
Let's GROW Emerging Reading Skills Over the Summer!
We know from research that when the brain is active...
Word Callers: How To Stop the Guessing
I didn’t know then everything I now know about reading....
A Mother’s Journey: Struggling Readers and the Science of Reading
I stopped torture reading with the boys and went back...
