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When it comes to their children struggling with reading, parents could use some road maps. An “old-school” concept not discussed much anymore, but that is still quite relevant has to do with the “stages of reading development.” The stages provide […]
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Let’s say a child knows a few notes on the piano, but does not yet know any songs. Would it make sense to ask him to play a challenging song that was clearly beyond his/her ability level? I don’t think […]
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For a whole host of reasons that won’t be raised at the moment, writing is difficult to adequately assess, even though there are standardized measures that practitioners and education specialists use in the assessment of writing. I would be willing […]
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In the 500 or so blog posts that have been posted on the site, many of them receive comments. As a change of pace, we offer some of the comments. In later blogs we will continue to share comments with […]
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A frustrated mom named Jan, who I spoke to some time ago really reduced things to its basic terms. Discussing her 12 year old sixth grader, Jackson, she went through a list of issues: resistant to homework hates reading frequent […]