How a simple phrase changed the course of my life.

No one wakes up knowing that their life is about to change. I was working at a high school with one of my one-on-one tutoring students, teaching  a program based on this new approach (or so I thought –  it’s actually one of the oldest and most trusted approaches  for working with struggling readers) the…

3 Tips for Getting Started with Tutoring

*This post contains affiliate links, I may be compensated if you make a purchase by clicking through on my links – I only ever endorse products that I have used and that I believe to be helpful to my audience.*  You know that feeling when you meet someone for the first time and you just…

The 5 Things You Must Know When Building Words

Created by Sara Dorken Kids love big words, they just do! Let’s face it, it’s way more fun to learn about a word like <herbivore> than it is to learn about <cat> or <it>.  Don’t get me wrong, it’s important, no, essential to be able to decode smaller words. In fact, the whole first module…

A Golden Tutor Moment

Dan was one of my first one-on-one students. Imagine how I felt when he told me he was asked to speak at the high school graduation. He had come a long way since the day a few years earlier when he said: “I am so glad that I am in this class. Now I am…

Not all students learn the same way!

After more than a decade of working with kids with dyslexia, I have found that no two students learn the same way. I have had students sit with their back to me while I taught the lesson. They preferred to listen to me rather than watch me. I have taught students while they were under…