How to Help Your Child Finish the School Year Strong
“My teacher hates me!” James exclaimed as he threw his backpack onto the kitchen floor. “She always yells at me for talking or not paying attention, but I am paying attention!” For parents, it can be disheartening to hear that your child feels disliked or disrespected by his teacher — even if you wonder…
Enter to Win Imagine That! Life Science Books and School Supplies
Bring learning alive in your child’s mind with high-imagery tales from Imagine That! Life Science. The Imagine That! series provides nonfiction stories to practice building imagery for oral and written language comprehension. These challenging, high-imagery stories introduce true and unusual topics for students to visualize, including natural disasters, unique animals, and fascinating phenomena. Each story…
Start the School Year With Sharpened Skills
At Lindamood-Bell, students often spend part of their summer gaining reading, comprehension, and math skills at our learning center. With improved abilities, they are able to return to school with confidence, ready to tackle the new year. Summer instruction at Lindamood-Bell is individualized to meet the needs of each student. Because it’s one-to-one, we’ll…
Imagine Better Homework | A Parent Workshop
This event has ended. For further information or questions regarding our instruction, please contact your local Learning Center. If your child has a learning or attention issue, it can be tough to maintain good homework habits. Resolving to “establish a daily routine,” for example, may not affect why it is difficult for a student to…
Close the Learning Gap with Daily Intensive Instruction
A bright and articulate eight-year-old, Jacob shifts uncomfortably in his seat when his teacher announces that the class will take turns reading aloud. “Maybe if I ask to go to the bathroom, I’ll miss my turn,” he thinks. Jacob has an impressive vocabulary, and his teachers frequently tell him how smart he is. But…
Use This Summer to Increase Learning
Imagine your child returning to school in the fall with better skills, ready to tackle the new year. Students can spend part of their summer gaining reading, comprehension, and math skills at our learning center. Instruction at Lindamood-Bell is individualized to meet the learning needs of each student in a short amount of time….
Join Us for Online Instruction
Can’t make it to one of our learning centers? Join us online! Online Lindamood-Bell® instruction is located where each child needs to learn. We connect with you from a Lindamood-Bell Learning Center, and our instruction staff works with your student one-to-one. We provide the same quality instruction families experience with us in person. …
Winter Break is the Right Time for Learning
Winter Break is the perfect time to maintain learning momentum, tackle an assignment with help, or get some support with a challenging subject. Our flexible schedule and one-to-one instruction can allow your child to return to school with confidence. The break is an opportunity to focus on the skills that will make school easier….
Tips for Preventing the Summer Slide
Months away from school can lead to measurable learning loss in skills like reading. Teachers know all about “the summer slide”— students come back to school out of practice, maybe forgetting some of what they learned. For this reason, your child’s teacher may have encouraged families to make reading a summer priority. We’ve gathered…
Why Daily Intensive Instruction?
Those who are new to Lindamood-Bell may be more familiar with traditional tutoring conducted over the course of semesters or years. Therefore, our daily instruction, that changes reading or comprehension in a short period of time, may be unfamiliar. An “intensive care” learning environment can be ideal for students who are not performing to their…
