Booksmart Tutoring

09/23/2026

Explicit reading + audiobooks for the win! 📚✨
I love recommending to my families because its multimodal app lets students see and hear highlighted text simultaneously—doubling their reading growth rate while building total independence.
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09/13/2026

Shared with permission from a former student: 🥹

“Hi, I’m Joshua Bunch age 47. I just recently graduated from the program. And I have to say that it is life-changing, being able to read. I gave up a long time ago on learning how to read. But I found this program and I stuck to it even though it was difficult at times but it was totally worth it. I read good enough to get into college and talking to people in text and messages on Facebook. It's no longer challenging, so it's really opened up my world, being able to communicate with my friends better.”

02/10/2026

I love word stories!

10/11/2025

I have an opening for reading and spelling tutoring with Barton! Give me a call or text! (360) 201-4377

08/22/2025

"What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you're inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic."

Carl Sagan ; Cosmos "The Persistence Of Memory"
❤☮🌎🔭

10/30/2024

Great infographic full of good reminders! People are complex combinations of strengths and struggles. Let’s approach the whole person with understanding and a willingness to meet them where they are.

09/08/2024

Props to all the parents advocating for their children with schools this week. Literacy is worth fighting for!

08/08/2024

NEVER ask a student with dyslexia to read aloud in front of their peers. If they volunteer, that's a different story, but you should only call on them to read aloud if that happens.

08/08/2023

Inspiring!

I could tell you I am fantastic at everything, but I’d be lying.

I just finished recording my audiobook, Be Useful. It comes out October 10. I could tell you how amazing it was to sit down and record my own words, but the truth is, I was absolutely dreading it.

Here’s my secret: I’m a terrible reader. They didn’t talk about learning disabilities in Austria in the 1950s, so most of the time, when I was asked to read out loud in class, it was just a disaster, and I got smacked with a ruler. But now I know that I’m dyslexic.

When I prepare for a movie, I read the script over and over for months until I’ve memorized every line. I need time and reps to get my mind around the words.

They told me authors ready their books in 2 or 3 days at the studio. I asked for the recording equipment at home and told them I’d do 20-30 pages a day. That way I could log in with the director and producer twice a day for shorter sessions and I could practice non-stop in between.

In this process, I used my own lessons.

1. I let myself dread it and complain for a minute, but then I forced myself to get moving, because denial wasn’t going to get it recorded.
2. I did so many reps I couldn’t count. I broke it up into small pieces, knowing that small wins build up into big victories, or in this case, a whole book.
3. I had the help of a fantastic team. My own team, but also the producers and directors Nithya, Danny, and Kris, and Eric who set up the equipment. All of us need help; none of us are self made.

When you listen to the audiobook, I hope you’re inspired, not just by the words, but by the process of recording them. You can pre-order now at BeUsefulBook.com and subscribe to my newsletter if you want stories like this in your inbox at ArnoldsPumpClub.com