My eighth-grade English teacher, Mrs. Tony, was hell-bent on teaching me to diagram sentences and memorize parts of speech. I was an epic failure at both. Fast forward a zillion years… Read more
My eighth-grade English teacher, Mrs. Tony, was hell-bent on teaching me to diagram sentences and memorize parts of speech. I was an epic failure at both. Fast forward a zillion years… Read more
Patterns. They’re everywhere. In our decorating, in our favorite song, in our behavior, and, perhaps most importantly, in our language.But what exactly ARE patterns? And what would happen if we didn’t have them or couldn’t recognize them? Read more
If you teach language and literacy for a living, I bet you had at least one moment recently where you thought you’d be put out of work by a bot.I did, too. But only one. (Okay, maybe two.)For sure, bots are here to stay. Educators are using AI to… Read more
Sometimes you meet someone whose passion feels bigger than life. Jennifer King is one of those people. After watching her own child’s struggle with dysgraphia and school writing, she set out to change the world… Read more
I read an article today that offered a handful of strategies to develop students’ executive function skills. I see articles like this all the time these days, and I have a confession: they make me bonkers.While I’m thrilled to see more and more educators embracing the term executive functions, too often suggestions for teaching executive functions don’t… Read more
You are the only person who can say what you have to say. No one else can capture your ideas. They might have similar ones, but they won’t… Read more
The first rule of Brain Frames is you don’t teach Brain Frames. You teach… Read more
As much as we long to get back to our “life before Covid” — seeing each other and working with SLPs, teachers, and schools in person — we can’t…. Read more
Some sentences are harder than others to understand, especially for students with developmental language disorders (DLD). Comprehension suffers when meaning doesn’t follow the order of the words or sentences are dense with details. For example:… Read more
If you are like me, you are a geek about language. You love how language works. And, as heartbreaking as it is to witness, you are fascinated by how it can get muddled up. Read more