Reading Elephant
Helping children reach their reading potential.
Currently, in many American classrooms, kids are expected to “pick up” on reading. They’re given repetitive books, asked to memorize them and guess at the words when they’re uncertain. This is called …
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Kids learn how to read in K-3. It takes English-speaking kids 4 years to learn how to decode. Thus, kids learn how to read in a series of incremental steps. If you're wondering when do kids start …
Inflectional endings include words with ing, ed, es/s and est at the end. Here are some examples: s as in catsing as in swimminged as in missed es as in catchesest as in fastest Inflectional …
Many wonder if an early literacy intervention is best. There’s a widely circulating myth that struggling k-2 readers just “catch on” without any opportunity cost. However, learning to read is a …
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