The Academic Gym Literacy Skills

How does T.A.G. help kids with ADHD? At The Academic Gym we use the body to stimulate, train, and strengthen the brain. We use athletic...

reading skills every third grader should know

T.A.G. (The Academic Gym) helps kids with ADHD and reading deficits by blending phonics, fitness, and fun. The Academic Gym help kids win socially, emotionally, and academically.

If you want to know what reading skills your second grader should know watch the video.

Reading skills for first graders Watch this video to learn about first grade reading skills.

This video will help parents learn about the reading skills their kindergarteners should know

We should teach kids to analyze irregular words

First grade reading skills set the foundation for the rest of a child's academic career. Failure here can be devastating in school and in life.

Third grade reading skills set the foundation for the rest of a child's academic career. Failure here can be devastating in school and in life.

Second graders should be able to distinguish long and short vowel sounds, decode two-syllable words, and recognize common spelling patterns.

What does it mean to be sentence smart®? To be sentence smart means having the ability to read and decode a sentence’s meaning by...

What Are Tier 2 Words? Tier 2 vocabulary words are high-utility academic terms  that appear frequently across books, classroom...

kids learn to read by sight by learning to read by sound. 

Since students must read writing, and all writing is spelling, knowledge of how students spell words may reveal phonological deficits, which might cause reading difficulties.

Why kids should learn the parts of speech

How exercise can get kids ready for learning

Here's an eye-opening article regarding the innate power of babies' brains to parse complex language structures. The Language Skills of Babies Why am I sharing this? Even if you don't teach infants, what's true about their language skills becomes stronger as they grow. Babies are born with an incredible ability to distinguish sounds and patterns in language. They can even recognize their mother’s voice shortly after birth. Why It Matters The ability to understand language is

At T.A.G. The Academic Gym, we teach kids of all ages how to sound, spell, and sing simple syllables like "ab, eb, ib, ob, and ub." Why...

How active learning in The Academic Gym improves reading skills

Why multisensory learning helps all kids learn