The Reading & Language Learning Center

Happy Monday 🔤

Spelling requires translating speech sounds into written symbols and remembering complex patterns. ✍️

The next time your kids start getting restless while waiting for dinner…try these two simple games. 🍽️

Whether you’re waiting for your food at a restaurant or waiting for dinner at home, these activities require zero prep and use whatever you already have around you.

🎲 Game Master: Your child creates a game using items on the table and teaches everyone else how to play.

⭐ Food Critic: After dinner, have them review the meal and—most importantly—tell you why they liked it (or didn’t!).

The hidden learning isn’t in the game or the review. It’s in explaining ideas, solving problems, organizing thoughts, and supporting opinions with reasons.

The best part? Your kids will just think they’re playing.

That’s what Summer Learning in Disguise is all about. 💙

Happy Monday 📖

What book are you reading this summer? 🌊

As children grow, reading should adapt from teaching the mechanics of letters to focusing on complex messages. 🌟

Every child is an expert on something. 💛

Whether it’s dinosaurs, Pokémon, Bluey, baseball, or Taylor Swift, invite your child to be the “teacher” this week and share what they know with the family.

While they’re excitedly explaining their favorite topic, they’re also building expressive language, organizing their thoughts, sequencing information, answering questions, and growing confidence as a communicator.

The best part? They’ll just think they’re sharing something they love.

What would your child be the family expert on?

Follow us for more Summer Learning in Disguise ☀️, where we share learning opportunities hidden in everyday summer fun.

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Jimmy wasn’t trying to ignore his coach. 💙

He remembered part of the directions.

For some children, following several spoken instructions at once is much harder than it looks. As they complete one step, the next instruction can quietly disappear.

It doesn’t always mean they weren’t listening.

Sometimes they’re working really hard to remember what came next.

If your child often loses track of multi-step directions, forgets part of what was asked, or seems to fall behind even when they’re trying, working memory may be part of the puzzle.

Have you ever seen your child do something like this? We’d love to hear your story. 💙

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Happy Monday! 🌟

Research shows that before the intermediate grads. A child’s listening comprehension actually outpaces their reading comprehension. If a child cannot understand a story read aloud to them, they will not be able to comprehend it when reading it themselves.