I Don’t Understand – So Why Should I Care? Sometimes I ask myself, “How would I feel if I went to a school where all the instruction was in a language foreign to me?” I might curl up in a ball on the class rug and fall asleep like a little girl...

Teaching one child or a room full of children is both an opportunity and a challenge! Parents and teachers often ask me, “Where do I start?” My answer always is, “Start where they are! Help them have success there and watch them grow as they move...

Pre-reading skills such as saying letter names, recognizing letters and learning their sounds are very important. Children need a firm foundation in these letter skills before putting sounds together to make words. In fact, some of the problems...