Is your child struggling with sight words? Learn fun and effective strategies for teaching sight words without stress and pressure! We've all seen it: the list of sight words our kids are supposed to master by the end of the year. For some, sight words can be a challenge for parents to teach. Maybe your child isn't able to read or spell this week's sight words, making both of you feel discouraged. Getting her to practice at home feels like pulling teeth. If she doesn't know the word or finds it too hard, she might even start crying. And other times, she just might not be interested, … [Read more...]

Want to encourage a love of reading in your child? Discover the 9 strategies that will help beginner readers build good reading habits. It's magical, isn't it? Seeing kids piece letters and words together as they read from a book. But as much as they enjoy reading now, how do we make sure they continue to do so in the years ahead? After all, you see bleak stats about kids' interest in reading on their own dwindle as early as fourth grade. How do we take beginner readers and help them develop good reading habits? How to build good reading habits My biggest priority isn't to turn my … [Read more...]