Big Type, Big Books, Big Results My son Jonathan is smack in the middle of that broad spectrum of abilities which cover the Down syndrome chart. He’s not a super star; he weighs in as [...]
The Best Little Tool This one’s indispensable in the teaching toolbox: an unsharpened pencil, one for you and one for your child. I collect “pointers” of wild kinds: with [...]
Last weekend I had the fun of giving reading workshops for The 21 Club in New Hartford, NY, and as usual I ended the day with a hands-on workshop for modifying trade books. I can’t [...]
The Starting Gate Where do you start if you want to teach your child to read? Or if you want to make sure all the reading bases are covered in the classroom? What if you’ve already tried to [...]
“Our son learned to read with those books!” Last month in Denver at the NDSC Conference, I was at my Special Reads booth when a couple walked by. They pointed to the Spaghetti and I [...]