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Sign up now for our 2025 summer learning tips, in English or Spanish from our Sister Site, Start With A Book. A fresh season of mobile tips are here! You'll receive three text messages per week, featuring hands-on activities to keep kids reading, creating, exploring — and learning — all summer long!

Text (855) 773-1019 toll-free with the words "READING" for tips in English and "LECTURA" for tips in Spanish.

Summer Learning Tips to Go! Text Messaging Service Sample tips Here are examples of the kinds of tips and activity ideas you'll receive though our text messaging service. Alphabet city On a walk together, look for the shapes of letters in the buildings all around you. More ideas: Builders and Buildings Ciudad del alfabeto Den un paseo juntos y busqu...

Reading Rockets offers a free summer and out-of-school-time toolkit is all about connecting kids with trees in their community.

What “wood” we do without trees? The Tree Trekkers program gives kids a chance to branch out to read and learn all about trees — their role in the ecosystem and in climate change, their characteristics and life cycle, their many benefits to humans and to other species, the stories they tell us about our history, and how trees, forests, and parks have inspired art, music, and literature.

Tree Trekkers: A Book-Based STEAM Adventure! Our summer and out-of-school-time toolkit is all about connecting kids with trees in their community. What “wood” we do without trees? Tree Trekkers gives kids a chance to learn all about trees — their role in the ecosystem and in climate change, their characteristics and life cycles, their ma...

Summer Learning Tips to Go! Text Messaging Service Sample tips Here are examples of the kinds of tips and activity ideas you'll receive though our text messaging service. Alphabet city On a walk together, look for the shapes of letters in the buildings all around you. More ideas: Builders and Buildings Ciudad del alfabeto Den un paseo juntos y busqu...

Author Lynn Ng Quezon: The Power of Perseverance and Honor Author Lynn Ng Quezon wants her young readers to know that achieving your goals by working respectfully and honorably even when facing obstacles not only helps others but oneself.

Is Handwriting Actually Important for Writing?

When students spend too much energy on forming letters, they have less energy for figuring out what to write. In this video, Joan Sedita, founder of Keys to Literacy and an experienced educator, discusses the research behind why students should learn handwriting and letter-sound correspondence simultaneously.

From our sister site, Reading Universe!

Is handwriting actually important for writing? Joan Sedita, founder of Keys to Literacy, talks about how esearch shows that young students improve their writing and alphabet knowledge when they handwrite ...

Personal stories of LD: This letter was written when I was in fourth grade. “I felt like writing you, but I couldn’t think of much letter-talk…But, I still want to write you a nice long letter. So, I decided to write you about my life.”

A Letter to My Grandmother This letter was written when I was in fourth grade. I was a learning-disabled child. This story began as a letter to my grandparents, written when I was 11.

Actor, writer, producer Henry Winkler talks about how his dyslexia impacted his school years.

“Now I know,” he writes, “that even if a person learns differently, he or she can still be filled with greatness.”

The World's Greatest Underachiever Actor and author Henry Winkler reminisces about how dyslexia impacted his school years in this article from Highlights for Children magazine. “Now I know,” he writes, “that even if a person learns differently, he or she can still be filled with greatness.”

Have you seen our sister site ReadingUniverse.org's Timely Talk on How Children Learn to Read by Margaret Goldberg (Right to Read Project)? We love her clear explanation and how she connects it to her teaching practice.

And if you're short on time, we've chaptered her presentation to make it easy for you to watch in parts!

https://readinguniverse.org/article/explore-teaching-topics/big-picture/how-children-learn-to-read-article

Reading Universe | How Children Learn to Read, with Margaret Goldberg In this timely talk, Margaret Goldberg gives a concise and clear explanation of the science of reading and how it makes sense in her own teaching practice. With honest reflection, she examines what is working and what is not. Using animations, graphics, and student video examples, Margaret connects....

Visit our new sister site ReadingUniverse.org. You'll find FREE ready-to-use teaching strategies, in-classroom videos, interviews with teachers and reading experts, and quick, concrete answers to common questions about teaching reading and writing.

Reading Universe: All About Reading and Writing Explore ready-to-use teaching strategies, resources, and concrete answers to common questions about teaching reading and writing -- developed by experts.

Loretta C***a is a special education administrator in New York State. In this interview, she talks about some of her lessons learned around supporting students with LD, partnering with families, and mentoring other administrators within the special education setting.

Q&A with Special Education Administrator Loretta C***a Loretta C***a is a special education administrator in New York State. She has extensive experience working in middle and high school settings and came out of retirement to continue supporting schools in need of guidance. She is currently serving a combined middle and high school setting in a rural d...

Our top 8 back-to-school tips for parents emphasize communication, organization, and staying up-to-date on special education news.

Back-to-School: Tips for Parents of Children with Special Needs Our top 8 back-to-school tips for parents emphasize communication, organization, and staying up-to-date on special education news.