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Is It Dyslexia, or Is It the Language?

It's the question I'm asked more than any other by families at international schools. Your child is bright, curious and articulate – but reading and writing are a struggle. Is this dyslexia, or is it simply that they're learning in a language that isn't their first? The honest answer is that it can be genuinely hard to tell […]

Multisensory Reading Techniques to Try at Home

If your child has worked through the same spelling list four weeks running and still can't hold on to it, the answer usually isn't more repetition. It's a different route in. That's what multisensory teaching means – using sight, sound, touch and movement together so a word has more than one way of sticking […]

Supporting Phonics at Home When Reading Was Hard for You Too

Some parents tell me, quietly and often a little apologetically, that they can't help their child with reading because they were never confident readers themselves. If that's you, I want to say two things straight away: you are not alone, and you are not the wrong person for this job […]