Boline Educational Resources

I talk and talk about teaching children to read. I get that I'm just one person who happens to have taught reading and have been successful with my children and a few others. Yeah, I want to pass that on so others can have that same success. But why should anyone listen to me? Today I want to share some research related to reading that will provide some credibility and perhaps convince others that they should take the plunge. This research was conducted at Stanford Universit

I want to help parents teach their children to read so their children can be more successful in school and in life. This has been a passion of mine ever since I taught my own children to read and watched their level of success in school. But I didn't know how to teach my children to read in the beginning, even though I was a first-grade teacher. That doesn't seem to make sense, but the way you teach a classroom full of children is different from how you teach your child. At l

This was my response to a question about reading with sight words: If you can read with sight words, it sure isn’t wrong to do it. And if a child can look at a word, be told what it is, and quickly remember it, more power to them. But I have taught first grade using a program called The Writing Road to Reading, which is very explicit phonics and nearly all my students were very successful. I taught very few sight words, instead focusing on 70 phonograms and 28 associated spel