Category: Tools & Strategies

How does slow processing speed impact reading skills?

keepreadingandlearning, January 24, 2024March 10, 2026

Skillful reading requires many cognitive processes. A weakness in cognitive skills such as processing speed,…

keepreadingandlearning, January 10, 2024March 19, 2026

Do you have English language learners in your classroom with language processing challenges or other…

keepreadingandlearning, December 19, 2023March 19, 2026

Do you have English Learners (ELs) in your classroom who have reading difficulties or struggle…

keepreadingandlearning, November 7, 2023March 9, 2026

Of the five components of reading instruction (phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, comprehension, and vocabulary), vocabulary…

keepreadingandlearning, August 23, 2023March 9, 2026

A question that teachers sometimes wonder is: should we explicitly teach spelling or are spelling…

keepreadingandlearning, July 25, 2023March 9, 2026

Do you have students who make guesses based on initial letter sounds instead of sounding…

keepreadingandlearning, July 11, 2023March 9, 2026

Do your students struggle with sentence writing? Do they tend to compose fragments and run-ons,…

keepreadingandlearning, June 24, 2023December 27, 2025

Does your reading program require you to teach “sight words,” “heart words,” “trick words,” “red…

keepreadingandlearning, June 12, 2023March 9, 2026

Phonological awareness and rapid naming are two skills that are often weak in struggling readers,…

keepreadingandlearning, May 21, 2023April 6, 2026

Compensating readers are a specific type of struggling reader you may not hear about often….