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How to Teach Reading at Home

You don’t need to be a trained dyslexia tutor to teach reading at home. Do you remember learning to read? I don’t. I don’t remember learning phonics, I don’t remember learning spelling rules, and I never even knew that there were intelligent...

Teach Reading With Dyslexia: Best Orton-Gillingham Resources

by Marianne | Resources

A roundup of my best Orton-Gillingham resources. As the homeschooling mom of 7 kids with dyslexia I have tried just about every reading program out there. Once I discovered that the Orton-Gillingham (OG) approach was proven by research to be the best way to teach...

Logic of English Foundations Review

by Marianne | Resources

After homeschooling kids with dyslexia for over 20+ years, I have seen just about every reading curriculum on the planet! And before I learned about the kinds of reading programs that really work, I tried just about everything on the market too. This post contains...

A Comparison of the Top 4 Orton-Gillingham Reading Programs for Homeschoolers

by Marianne | Resources

Teaching kids with dyslexia to read at home has never been easier thanks to the development of more and more user-friendly Orton-Gilligham programs. The programs in this comparison of the top 4 Orton-Gillingham reading programs were chosen because they are affordable...

How to Avoid the Summer Slide in Reading

by Marianne | Teaching Tips

As a homeschool mom, I’m pretty sure I look forward to summer break as much as my kids. The problem with this is that I know from experience that if I stop teaching my kids with dyslexia for too long, they’re going to forget as much as 30% of what...