by janandkari | Dec 16, 2021 | Blog
It’s exciting when the little people we support start to know and recite some letter names and their associated sounds in response to seeing those little black marks on a page. But the problem is . . . …we’ve all known children who know LOTS, if not ALL, of the...
by janandkari | Dec 9, 2021 | Blog
Phonics? Phonological awareness? Phonemic awareness? What’s the difference, really? And how can you keep all these phon- words straight? Well, confusion about the phon- words is created not only because they sound alike, but also because there is a...
by janandkari | Dec 2, 2021 | Blog, Video
What’s oral language development got to do with reading, anyway? Well, it turns out . . . a whole lot. As we explain in Chapter 1 of Shifting the Balance, reading comprehension doesn’t begin with reading; it begins with comprehension of spoken language. And...
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