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TLC Dyslexia Services TLC Dyslexia Services is led by a Masters-Level Certified Barton Tutor. Serving families in St. Petersburg, FL since 2011. Message us to schedule.

We provide research-based dyslexia intervention and support in math, handwriting, and written composition TLC Dyslexia Services provides Master-Level Certified Barton tutoring for dyslexic learners K–college. We offer reading, spelling, writing, and math support using Barton-aligned multisensory instruction.

08/07/2026

One part of Curiosity Club is easy to misunderstand.

The controlled text passages are not simply extra reading practice. They are the part that makes Curiosity Club real instruction, not just enrichment.

In this video, I explain how controlled text works, why it helps prevent guessing, and how to choose a passage that matches the reading patterns your child has already learned.

I also explain how older students can use the simple note-taking activity to practice listening for important information and recording a few key words or phrases.

Understanding these two parts will help you use Curiosity Club more purposefully and make sure your child is working at the right level.

The Curiosity Club website link is in the comments.

George Washington was a surveyor before he was a soldier, a general, or the first President of the United States.At just...
08/07/2026

George Washington was a surveyor before he was a soldier, a general, or the first President of the United States.

At just sixteen years old, he was already walking through the Virginia wilderness, measuring land with a compass and chain.

This week’s Curiosity Club follows Washington from those early days through the Revolutionary War and into the presidency, with a few surprising stops along the way.

Curiosity Club gives students a dyslexia-friendly way to explore history, science, geography, and the fascinating world around them.

🔗 Read this week’s issue at the link in the comments.

🎓 New in Curiosity Club: Thomas Jefferson, Level 6Thomas Jefferson was a planner, a risk-taker, and a man with very big ...
07/28/2026

🎓 New in Curiosity Club: Thomas Jefferson, Level 6

Thomas Jefferson was a planner, a risk-taker, and a man with very big ideas.

He helped write the Declaration of Independence, doubled the size of the nation through the Louisiana Purchase, sent Lewis and Clark west, and opened a university that still welcomes students today.

This controlled text passage gives students meaningful Level 6 reading practice while exploring how one person helped shape a growing nation.

📘 Link in the comments.

07/20/2026

Back-to-school season can bring up a lot of feelings.

There is excitement, of course.

New teachers. New notebooks. New shoes. Fresh pencils.

But for parents of dyslexic children, there can also be that quiet worry:

Will reading feel hard again?

Will spelling become a struggle again?

Will homework take over our evenings again?

If that is where you are, please know that you are not alone.

Dyslexic students are bright, capable, creative kids. They simply need reading and spelling taught in a way that matches how their brain learns.

At TLC Dyslexia Services, we use the Barton Reading and Spelling System, an Orton-Gillingham based program designed for dyslexic learners.

Back to school does not have to mean back to the same struggle.

With the right support and good communication with the school, this year can feel different.

07/17/2026

Parents often ask me what their child can do outside of tutoring that is actually helpful, without adding more pressure.

That is one reason I created Curiosity Club.

Each week, students get three simple pieces:

The Knowledge Library, which helps build background knowledge students may have missed when reading was hard or exhausting.

The Controlled Text Library, which gives students reading practice with words and patterns they have already been taught.

A note-taking activity, which helps students practice listening for key ideas from spoken words.

Curiosity Club is meant to feel light, doable, and meaningful.

No pile of extra work.

Just one small weekly way to keep curiosity alive.

Did you know Thomas Jefferson was so obsessed with pasta that he sketched his own machine to make it?That's the kind of ...
07/11/2026

Did you know Thomas Jefferson was so obsessed with pasta that he sketched his own machine to make it?
That's the kind of thing kids remember. This week's Curiosity Club follows Jefferson from a cheesy White House dinner to the biggest land deal in American history — the day the whole country doubled in size overnight.
Short, dyslexia-friendly, and made to spark curiosity. Free to read. 🔎
Link in the comments. 👇
Stay curious.

06/26/2026

There is a gap in the dyslexia world that almost nobody says out loud.
When reading is hard, children avoid it.
Of course they do.
But while they are avoiding it, they are missing years of the science, the history, the geography, the stories that other kids are picking up through books the whole time.
And when the reading finally gets better - that gap does not go away.
It follows them.
We work hard on the decoding. As we should. But the world has been quietly narrowing for these kids while the adults fight over IEPs and methods and programs.
I built Curiosity Club because I was not willing to name that problem and walk away.
It takes a bright, curious kid who has been locked out by the reading - and opens the world back up to them.
Real topics. Real wonder. Built so the reading is never the wall.
This is the first video in a new series on what Curiosity Club actually is and why I built it. Come take a look.
Links in Comments Below.

There is a small viewing room at Cape Disappointment State Park in Washington called the Clifton-Rudeen Gallery. It look...
06/21/2026

There is a small viewing room at Cape Disappointment State Park in Washington called the Clifton-Rudeen Gallery. It looks out over the very spot where Lewis and Clark first saw the Pacific Ocean after more than 3,700 miles of walking, paddling, and climbing through land no American map had ever shown.
The Rudeen on that plaque is my great uncle, Ralph Rudeen. He helped create the Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center that sits on that headland. More than a million people have walked through it to stand where the expedition stood and learn what they saw.
I did not plan to put that story in this week's Curiosity Club. It just kept surfacing as I researched, and eventually I let it in. Dyslexic kids deserve to know that history is not something that happens far away to other people. Sometimes it runs straight through your own family, and you only find out because someone took the time to keep the story alive.
This week's issue is about Lewis and Clark, Sacagawea diving into the river to save the journals, and the hand-drawn maps the team made river by river as they went. It is the eighth stop in our American Frontier sub-series, and it leads into next week's story about the president who made the whole expedition possible.
Curiosity Club is a short weekly exploration written for curious learners, especially students who benefit from dyslexia-friendly reading. It is free, it is built for kids who often miss out on background knowledge, and you can have it read aloud with one tap.
Read this week's issue and subscribe at https://substack.com/
If you want to know more about tutoring, school support, or the wider world of TLC, you can find everything at tlcdyslexiaservices.com
Come along. There is more coming.

I've been refining the alignment of my controlled text passages, and this Daniel Boone passage represents a major improv...
06/13/2026

I've been refining the alignment of my controlled text passages, and this Daniel Boone passage represents a major improvement.

The decoding demands are more carefully aligned, while still allowing for richer vocabulary, stronger background knowledge, and more meaningful content.

This updated format includes:

📖 improved controlled text alignment
⭐ a Words to Know section for vocabulary support
🧠 quick comprehension questions

Controlled text should support decoding without stripping away interest, vocabulary, or ideas.

📌 Daniel Boone — Level 4
Curiosity Club · American Frontier #7

https://tlcdyslexiaservices.substack.com/p/daniel-boone-level-4

06/10/2026

Summer tutoring can make a big difference.

A little extra support now can help your child start the school year with more confidence, stronger skills, and less stress.

At TLC Dyslexia Services, we offer structured literacy tutoring for students with dyslexia and reading challenges.

Summer spots are limited.

Message us to learn more.

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