The notebook collects what we write for reading and writing at home or in the classroom: how to build a story, spelling rules explained with examples, and traditions such as Halloween and the Day of the Dead. To start with stories, see how to make a story.
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A reading nook built from what’s already home
Three conditions that cost nothing, a one-line test, and a table of where the nook goes depending on your home. Including the…
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Reading exercises by grade, and what backs each one
Eight exercises from kindergarten to sixth grade, with minutes and the evidence level behind what each one practices. Plus the two that…
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Nobody reads in our house: what is actually measured
What predicts a child’s years of schooling is that books are present, independently of the schooling of whoever raises them. What to…
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Screens and reading: what 480,000 participants showed
Total screen time tracked no relationship with school performance. What did track was television and video games. So what is worth changing…
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Headaches after reading: what to check about their eyes
The school chart measures sight at twenty feet. Reading happens at twelve inches. What that misses, what exam to ask for, and…
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Is this book too hard? Three things you can measure
The age on the back cover is a publishing convention. Three things you can measure with the book in your hands decide…
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Do audiobooks count as reading? Four formats
Graphic novel, picture book, audio or large print. What each format does, what the evidence says, and the one widely recommended without…
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How much reading time is actually enough?
Twenty minutes is the 90th percentile of a 1988 study. The full table, what reading time actually buys according to the evidence,…
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Reading together in five minutes, without the quiz
The way of reading together that has been measured moved oral language 19 percentile points. And it fits in five minutes. Here…
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They only read graphic novels: one number settles it
A comic has 53.5 rare words per thousand. A children’s book has 30.9. The full table, what reading panels actually does, and…
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They start books and stop: where they stop matters
Stopping on page ten and stopping halfway mean different things. The triage by where they stop, and the way out that works…
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My child won’t read: ten reasons, and what to check
Ten concrete causes, from the cheapest to rule out to the slowest to change. Plus the triage table and where the twenty-minutes-a-day…