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Summer Reading Fun for Everyone!

12 Jun, 2023

Have fun reading with us during summer break. Summer reading helps children keep their skills up and encourages reading to become a lifelong habit. Kids can read by themselves or with a grownup. Everyone can join in! Ways to participate: Just for Fun – Everyone! Download your progress sheet (below). There are 14 categories. When…

Exciting Research on Struggling Readers Published in Nature

3 Dec, 2021

Exciting research, titled “Rapid and widespread white matter plasticity during an intensive reading intervention”, has been published in the journal Nature.   The study, from the Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences, University of Washington (UW), examined growth in reading skills and white matter in school-aged, struggling readers. Diffusion MRI data collected during 8 weeks…

London Centre Hosted COBIS Webinar

3 Mar, 2020

The Lindamood-Bell® London Learning Centre hosted a webinar for the Council of British International Schools. Our presentation, “The Imagery-Language Foundation: Teaching All Children to Read and Comprehend,” was presented by Centre Director Valentina Nikolic and explored the imagery-language foundation as the basis for reading and comprehension.   Valentina highlighted crucial knowledge for teachers as they…

Tips for Parents: When the Teacher Recommends Reading Help

24 Oct, 2019

Research shows that students who read over summer break end up boosting their reading skills, while those who do not, often slide backward, losing up to two months of what they learned during the school year.  This is why teachers always encourage students to read as much as possible over summer break. But if your…

4 Signs of Reading Difficulty

15 Aug, 2019

It’s only natural for parents to wonder how a child’s reading stacks up next to the child’s peers. This is especially the case when there’s an older sibling or friend in the picture who seems to breeze through the reading process. It is not always clear whether a child has a weakness that needs to…

A Missing Connection for Struggling Readers

25 Jul, 2019

When a student struggles with reading, extra help typically focuses on sounding out words and on spelling rules. Unfortunately, after months of hard work and frustration, many students continue to struggle with year-level text.   Perhaps they can sound out words, but it is slow and labored. They may take so long to sound out…

Tips for Parents: Give Your Early Learner a Head Start

25 Jul, 2019

A generation ago, kindergarten days were only filled with activities like finger painting, “Hide-and-Go-Seek,” making friends, and learning to be peaceful at nap time.   And, while reading and spelling may have been introduced in first grade, there was nothing like today’s pressure for students to be performing according to grade-level standards. Sure, there is…

How to Encourage Your Reluctant Reader

11 Jul, 2019

While you’d like your son or daughter to disappear into the land of Narnia or be swept up in a Harry Potter spell while reading, reality may reveal the opposite. In fact, your child might even say, “I hate reading,” and when finally sitting down with a book, emits forlorn cries of “Am I done…

4 Signs of Reading Difficulty

5 Jul, 2019

It’s only natural for parents to wonder how a child’s reading stacks up next to the child’s peers. This is especially the case when there’s an older sibling or friend in the picture who seems to breeze through the reading process. It is not always clear whether a child has a weakness that needs to…

Tips for Parents: When the Teacher Recommends Reading Help

21 Jun, 2019

Research shows that students who read over the summer break gain reading skills, while those who do not often slide backward, losing up to two months of what they learned during the school year.  This is why teachers always encourage students to read as much as possible over summer break. But if your last parent-teacher…

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