The Academic Gym Literacy Skills

Middle schoolers need morphology. Each post contains a video that provides comprehensive information about a word that will help students understand its origin, structure, and usage.

Middle schoolers need morphology. Each post contains a video that provides comprehensive information about a word that will help students understand its origin, structure, and usage.

Middle schoolers need morphology. Each post contains a video that provides comprehensive information about a word that will help students understand its origin, structure, and usage.

Middle schoolers need morphology. Each post contains a video that provides comprehensive information about a word that will help students understand its origin, structure, and usage.

Middle schoolers need morphology. Each post contains a diagram that provides comprehensive information about a word that will help students understand its origin, structure, and usage.

Middle schoolers need morphology. Each post contains a diagram that provides comprehensive information about a word that will help students understand its origin, structure, and usage.

Middle schoolers need morphology. Phonics and decoding are foundational but insufficient on their own.

Why is sight word or whole word instruction the worst way to teach reading?

What did your child miss? These are the four foundations of literacy. Which of these does your child struggle with?

What did your child miss? These are the four foundations of literacy. Which of these does your child struggle with?

for millions of middle schoolers, the new year brings fear: fear of failing — again! For they are the "Covid Cohort," children of the pandemic, which, with the force of a thousand tornadoes, swept across our educational landscape and obliterated the foundations of literacy they should have received in preschool, kindergarten, and first grade.

Covid caused many kids to miss the crucial, foundational kindergarten and first grade years. If Covid cheated your child out of the type of literacy that all kids need to read and succeed, learn more about our Covid catch up classes.

There are many ways to spell the long vowel /u/. Watch my video to learn more.

There are many ways to spell the long vowel /O/. Watch my video to learn more.

There are many ways to spell the long vowel /i/. Watch my video to learn more.

There are many ways to spell the Long Vowel /E/. Watch my video to learn more.

There are many ways to spell the long vowel /A/. Watch my YouTube video to learn how to get your kids to remember these spellings by chanting them.

The phonogram "ough" can be used to spell several different sounds. We can help students remember these sounds by using them as rhyming words in sentences.

What is VITAAL-K Therapy? VITAAL-K Therapy is Movement-Based Literacy for Neurodiverse Learners. TAG VITAAL-K™ Therapy is a clinically recognized, strand-based literacy intervention designed for children with ADHD, dyslexia, and enrichment needs. Rooted in neuroscience and delivered through rhythmic, multisensory routines, TAG VITAAL-K™ empowers clinicians to transform literacy instruction into a dynamic, whole-body experience. This is not a curriculum. It’s a therapeutic...