Reading Elephant
Helping children reach their reading potential.
You have a talented, smart child. You've read to her since she was a baby. Children's books with fringed edges are in boxes around your house. Your child has both brains and a good environment. You've …
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Dyslexic readers are often slow to learn to read. Once they read, they often read fewer words per minute than their peers. For dyslexic students, reading can become laborious and even result in …
One of the early signs of dyslexia is reading failure. Even with research-based phonics instruction, dyslexic kids struggle to read. Without phonics instruction, however, dyslexic children may not …
Maybe your child is near the end of first grade. You see that he doesn’t know how to decode many single-syllable words like “bland,” “cope,” “strain” or “leap.” He struggles to read even beginning …
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Research is conclusive. Explicit phonics instruction is the most effective, reliable way to teach a child to read. Explicit means the instruction is direct. The child does not have to "guess" at words …
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