3 fun ways to help your child find and correct their spelling mistakes
It’s vital that your child/teen learns the skills needed to find and correct their spelling mistakes. I recommend this a lot in my dyslexia reports. But finding our mistakes tends … Read More
Help Your Child to be a Super Speller: the 4 crucial pieces to solve the spelling puzzle
Combine these 4 things and watch your child fly: a) Just 300 words make up half of everything we read and write Click here for 4 fun activities to make … Read More
It’s OK to say NO to school
I was going to write a different blog post today, but my inbox has crashed under the weight of sad e-mails about the homework being sent out during lockdown number … Read More
What Every Parent Should Know About the National Curriculum Spellings
In 2013 the UK Government introduced the Spelling Appendix. Someone clearly worked really hard to produce it and it’s pretty good. But I can only think that they are weeping … Read More
Can I Find Out My Child’s Spelling Age?
There are lots of expensive spelling tests that assessors can access, but free spelling tests for parents are hard to come by. It’s old-fashioned, but you might try the Schonell … Read More
6 Ways You Can Actually Use Screen Time and Not Feel Guilty
1) Use games after bursts of learning as a break to help them store the knowledge An essential step we often miss out in the learning process is giving the … Read More
Can I Find Out My Child’s Reading Age?
One of the perks of being a dyslexia assessor and tutor is that I have access to complicated assessments to pinpoint a child’s skills, but when I started tutoring thirteen … Read More
How Do I Find Out My Child’s Reading Level?
A quote ascribed to lots of amazing authors is: “If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book” I would disagree a bit – if … Read More
100 Brilliant Books To Tempt Your Reluctant Reader
An easy place to start is the list of 100 books from the Books Trust voted on by the Great British Public. A book challenge list has the advantage that … Read More
Free Audiobooks and Ebooks
Trying to get typically developing children to read can be hard enough, but if your child has additional needs, such as dyslexia, it becomes a worrying nightmare. Working out why … Read More
4 Amazing Benefits of a ‘Gratitude Jar’ or Try a ‘Date Jar’
As overwhelmed teachers panic and send out ‘death by worksheet’ and super-stressed parents get competitive about how many their child has completed… Here’s one quick thing to try instead with amazing … Read More
7 Things You Could Focus on During Emergency Homeschooling
As you read this menu of ideas, trust your gut. You know what your child needs! As most of you know, as well as being a dyslexia assessor, I am … Read More
5 reasons your dyslexic child should be doing puzzle books
Parents of dyslexic children are often desperate to find the right books for their kids. Dyslexia typically makes reading a lot harder, due to issues with visual distortion and phonological … Read More