These five evidence-based intervention strategies for students with dyslexia are helpful for any teacher or parent to learn.
Parents and Teachers Can Try Any of These 6 Effective Tips to Help Struggling Readers (Basic Skills and Comprehension)
Want to know how to help a child with reading difficulties? Check out these six research-based tips for parents and educators.
Pride Reading Program Utilizes a Multi-Sensory Approach!
The Pride Reading Program uses a multi-sensory approach based on Orton Gillinham to support students with speech/language needs, dyslexia, and processing challenges.
This is How to Use Graphic Organizers to Improve Academic Skills (Reading Comprehension, Writing, Listening, Note Taking, and Study Skills)
See samples of how to use graphic organizers. Definitions and uses for several types of graphic organizers are provided.
Learn How to Help Your Child Build Their Reading Comprehension with This Strategy About Making Meaningful Connections
This article explains and teaches how to use the reading comprehension strategy “making connections” – a research-based strategy utilized to help children/students improve their reading comprehension.
How Does the Visualizing and Verbalizing Strategy Help Children with Reading Comprehension?
Visualizing and Verbalizing is a research-based strategy that helps students visualize information so they can comprehend it. Students learn to build pictures in their minds to represent text.
Research Supports These 7 Strategies to Help Your Child with Reading Fluency
Check out these research-based strategies to help your child or student with reading fluency.
Research-Based Reading Program Helps Students with Learning Challenges Improve Basic Reading and Comprehension
This comprehensive research-based program (Corrective Reading) has been found to be effective for students with learning disabilities, intellectual disabilities, and autism spectrum disorder.
Research-Based Program ‘Read Naturally’ Leads to Significant Improvements in Fluency and Comprehension
Read Naturally is meant to be used as a supplement to your child’s reading curriculum. It aims to improve reading fluency, accuracy, and comprehension of students in elementary school through adulthood. Research studies on Read Naturally indicate that students who progress through the program make significant gains in reading comprehension and oral reading fluency. Read Naturally uses a combination of …
Research-Based Program ‘Reading Eggs’ Helps Kids Improve Basic Reading Skills and Reading Comprehension
Reading Eggs is a research-based online, interactive reading program that helps children learn to read and spell through games.
Amazon Audible Can Help Improve Word Recognition & Reading Comprehension for Struggling Readers
Amazon’s Audible is an amazing tool for students who may have difficulty with sounding out words, recognizing words, or comprehending spoken information.
Research Supports the Use of Hands-on/Multisensory Approaches to Teach Reading, Writing, and Math
Find out how multisensory and hands-on learning helps students with autism, ADHD and other disabilities in reading, writing, math, and more!
Science-Backed Program Helps At-Risk Students Make Reading Gains
Reading with TLC is a research-based multisensory reading program for children and adults. Learn more about this science-backed program.
Effective Reading Program for Young Children
Recently I came across a step-by-step program that helps parents easily teach their young children to read. The authors, Jim (a reading teacher) and his wife Elena, developed the Children Learning Reading program, and used it to teach their own children to read before turning 3 years old. Who Is the Program Designed For?The Children Learning Reading program is designed for parents of young …
Try These 5 Fun Activities to Teach Your Child Sight Words
This article provides several fun and effective, research-based strategies for teaching sight words to children. The strategies in this article are based on the Orton-Gillingham approach which promotes the use of multi-sensory instruction. Multi-sensory instruction allows children to learn using multiple senses (e.g, hearing, seeing, touching). This is important because research shows that children learn best when information is coming in …
Orton-Gillingham-An Instructional Approach to Teaching Students with Dyslexia
Orton-Gillingham is an instructional approach mainly intended for use with individuals who have difficulty with reading, spelling, and writing associated with dyslexia. Dyslexia makes it difficult for a person to connect sounds to letters and/or blend combinations of letters quickly and fluently in reading. Dyslexia can effect phonemic awareness, the ability to hear and separate the smallest sounds in a word, which can …
Starfall: Free Website Helps Students Learn to Read through Fun Interactive Games
Working in public schools for over ten years, I have seen many teachers utilize the Starfall website to assist students with attaining basic reading skills. This is a program that can easily be used at home as well. Starfall, a program based on established research studies, can be used for students of any age, from emerging readers to those struggling …
10 Fun Reading Board Games for Kids
Here are ten fun reading board games to help your children practice reading!
How to Help Kids Improve Reading Comprehension with Story Mapping
Research indicates that students who struggle significantly with reading comprehension benefit from learning a strategy called Story Mapping which is explained in detail below. To read more about the research on Story Mapping see The Effects of Training in Story Mapping Procedures on Reading Comprehension and A Story Mapping Intervention to Improve Narrative Comprehension Deficits in Adolescents with ADHD. What is Story …
Try These 10 Fun Phonics Activities to Teach Letter Sounds to Children
What Does the Research Say About Teaching Phonics? Research indicates the importance of teaching children phonics as a preliminary step for learning to read. Phonics is the relationship between letters and sounds as well as the understanding of how those sounds connect to form words. Research also suggests that systematic instruction which incorporates word play (manipulating letters/sounds in words to change …
Find Out Why I Tried These Visual/Hands-On Activities with My Students on the Autism Spectrum
Working with children and adults on the autism spectrum for over 19 years, I have noticed a trend in the learning style of many of my students. They often do best with academic tasks that incorporate visual structure, have a clear beginning and ending, and have a reduced amount of visual clutter. Research supports the theory that building visual structure into tasks is an effective approach to …
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