The Dyslexia Roadmap

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Tomorrow is September 1.For most people that is just a date. For a parent raising a kid with dyslexia, it is the start o...
08/31/2026

Tomorrow is September 1.

For most people that is just a date. For a parent raising a kid with dyslexia, it is the start of the year you promised would be different.

You have made that promise before. Last August you said this year we get ahead of it. This year we don't wait until the November conference to find out he's behind. This year I'm not crying in the school parking lot.

Then September came, and it moved fast, and the promise got buried under forms and schedules and homework that took two hours.

Here's what I want you to know before tomorrow.

The promise was never the problem. The plan was.

Hope is not a strategy. You can't white-knuckle your way into a different year. What actually changes a year is a small number of specific things, done on purpose, starting in the first week.

That's what we're talking about all week. Come back tomorrow and I'll show you where to start.

08/29/2026

This school year doesn't have to look like last year's. Here's what's different.

It's easy to walk into September bracing for a repeat of last year. But even if nothing about your child's reading has magically changed, something else has: you know things now you didn't know last August.

You know which sounds trip them up. You know what to say when they get stuck instead of freezing. You've watched them stay at the table through a hard word instead of giving up.

None of that shows up on a report card. All of it changes what this year can look like. You're not starting over — you're starting from further along than it feels like.

Follow along — I'm mapping out the whole first semester with you this fall.

Here's what reading progress will actually look like in September — so you don't miss it.It won't look like a fluent par...
08/28/2026

Here's what reading progress will actually look like in September — so you don't miss it.

It won't look like a fluent paragraph. It'll look like three more minutes in the chair than August. It won't look like every word right. It'll look like trying the hard one again instead of giving up. It won't look like loving reading. It'll look like fewer tears before the book even opens. It won't look like independence overnight. It'll look like asking for help instead of shutting down.

None of it makes it onto a report card. All of it is progress, right on schedule.

Join my Skool group for more reading support.
https://www.skool.com/thedyslexiaroadmap

Ask your kid this one question to end the reading-time power struggle.Before you open the book, before you set the timer...
08/25/2026

Ask your kid this one question to end the reading-time power struggle.

Before you open the book, before you set the timer, before any of it — ask:

"Do you want to be in charge of how this goes?"

Here's why it works.

Most reading-time fights aren't really about reading. They're about control. Your child has spent a full day being told where to sit, what to do, and how fast to do it. By the time you sit down together, they're out of cooperation — and the only control they have left is saying no.

When you offer them real control first, there's nothing left to fight for.

Let them choose: Hard words or easy ones first? Five minutes or ten? Sitting at the table or on the couch?

It doesn't matter which they pick. What matters is they picked it. Now they're steering — and kids who are steering don't resist the ride.

That's not lowering the bar. That's handing them the one thing that actually gets them to the table.

Want more ways to take the fight out of reading time? Join my Skool group — https://www.skool.com/thedyslexiaroadmap

You don't need a perfect reading plan this year. You need this.The pressure to have it all figured out by the first week...
08/24/2026

You don't need a perfect reading plan this year. You need this.

The pressure to have it all figured out by the first week of school is real — and it's not the thing that actually moves the needle.

Not a color-coded schedule. The same 8 minutes, most nights. Not knowing all the reading science. Knowing what to say when they get stuck. Not getting every homework session right. Staying calm more nights than not. Not fixing everything this semester. One small win at a time.

You are already enough of what this year needs. Save this for the week it all feels like too much.

One bad week doesn't need a big fix. It needs one win, rebuilt one day at a time.Monday: Skip anything new. Start with a...
08/21/2026

One bad week doesn't need a big fix. It needs one win, rebuilt one day at a time.

Monday: Skip anything new. Start with a word or sentence they already know cold. Let them feel capable before you ask for anything harder.

Tuesday: Introduce one new word. Just one. Stay on it until it's easy, not until the clock says you're done.

Wednesday: Read together and don't correct mid-sentence. Let them finish the thought, then go back gently if needed.

Thursday: Bring Tuesday's word back. If it's automatic now, that's the whole win for the day.

Friday: One sentence, no stress — and you call it what it is. A win.

She didn't need a whole new plan. She just needed a win. Whatever that win looks like this week, it's enough.

Save this for the week you need a re-buld.

On your team, Robin

08/19/2026

The first two weeks of school can undo a whole summer of progress. Here’s why.

It’s not that your child forgot how to read over the summer. It’s that summer didn’t ask anything of them.

No timed reading. No worksheets. No moment where a whole class watches them get stuck on a word. So the pressure that usually reactivates the shame — the comparison, the pace, the audience — just wasn’t there.

Then school starts, and it all comes back in the first ten minutes of the first reading group.

That’s not regression. That’s your child’s nervous system catching up to a new environment faster than their skills can. Hear it gently: a child who seems to have “”lost”” ground in week one is often just bracing again, not actually behind again.

So protect one thing at home these first two weeks: ten calm minutes of reading practice, no correcting mid-sentence, no comparison to how it went last spring. Let home stay the only place this doesn’t cost them anything.

It gets steadier by week three. It always does.

If you want a simple way to structure those ten minutes, join my Skool group — link in bio.

On your team, Robin

If you think school isn't doing enough, ask these 3 questions first.That feeling — this isn't working, but I don't know ...
08/18/2026

If you think school isn't doing enough, ask these 3 questions first.

That feeling — this isn't working, but I don't know what ""working"" would even look like — is one of the loneliest parts of this. You don't want to overreact. You don't want to wait too long either.

Before you escalate, ask these three questions:

What specific program or approach are you using for reading, and how often does my child get it?

What accommodations are actually in place for my child right now — not on paper, in practice?

How will we know if this is working? What does progress look like, and by when?

Vague answers are information too. A program no one can name usually isn't structured. An accommodation no one can describe usually isn't happening consistently.

You don't need to walk in ready for a fight. You need to walk in with the right questions — and know what to do with the answers.

On your team, Robin

Most moms walk into that meeting with a knot in their stomach. You want to advocate for your child, but you don't want t...
08/17/2026

Most moms walk into that meeting with a knot in their stomach. You want to advocate for your child, but you don't want to come across as ""that parent."" So you end up saying nothing, or saying too much — and neither one lands.

Here's what actually helps.

Instead of leading with a diagnosis or a list of struggles, try this:

"My child is smart and works hard. Reading doesn't come easily yet, and here's what I'm seeing help at home: [one specific thing]. What are you seeing in class, and how can we stay on the same page?"

Specific. Calm. Collaborative.

A teacher changes every year. You are there every evening and every long summer. That makes you the most important reading variable in your child's life — this meeting is just the moment you remind everyone of that, starting with yourself.

On your team, Robin

5 signs the books coming home in their backpack are too hard.Not every book that comes home in the folder is actually at...
08/14/2026

5 signs the books coming home in their backpack are too hard.

Not every book that comes home in the folder is actually at the right level — and a mismatched book can undo weeks of confidence in one homework session.

Watch for: needing several read-throughs before it ""works,"" guessing from pictures instead of sounding out words, missing more than 1 in 10 words, skipping words instead of attempting them, and the same book causing a fight every single time it comes out.

If you're seeing two or more of these, the book is the mismatch — not your child.

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