Holiday Tips and Reading Resources

Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukah, and happy holidays! These days can be a wonderful, full of celebration and fellowship. But juggling preparations, our children's schooling, and other duties can be tough. Here are a few LearnDifferently posts to help you stay calm, manage expectations, and enjoy the holiday season even more:

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Reading Teaching Tools, Part I:
Miss Letterly

Learn to Read and Spell with Miss Letterly is a charming, child-friendly introduction to the Orton-Gillingham approach to reading. (It is also called Multisensory Structured Language, or MSL.) It's the way most of us who have tried to teach reading probably wish we'd been taught. Alyssa Hubbard has written a collection of stories to introduce the concepts that she understands so well from years working at a nationally accredited program for students with dyslexia.

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Reading Teaching Tools, Part II: Megawords and MindPlay

Two tools to help older students with reading:

What if your child can decode syllables, but is getting bogged down at the next level? The Megawords program does a great job with teaching syllables, affixes, and roots, according to dyslexia specialist Marilyn Zecher. That’s in part because these eight workbooks are designed for struggling readers, grades 4 and up.

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Become a favorite aunt or uncle!
Family time often includes reading stories to little ones. In this post, I share tips from a pro: a speech therapist with small kids of her own recommends favorite resources to make reading to little ones more engaging. Enjoy!

Forward to a friend

Sometimes the holidays can be both fun and exhausting. Try to make time to rest, celebrate, and recharge. Relax: with a good book, a walk, date with your spouse. One of the best gifts you can give your child is a less-stressed parent.

Enjoy your children, take care of yourself, and happy holidays!
Kathy

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