(3rd time's a charm for this mom) There is always the danger that a method, a bona fide method, should degenerate into a mere
How to Teach Phonics to a Grump
You've been there, haven't you? You sit down with your binder and your Bob Books to do what you think will be a pleasant little lesson, and your
Summer Slide and What to Do About It
You all know what summer slide is, right? It's a cute name for something a lot of teachers find horrific: the academic decline needlessly suffered by
So You Had a Bad Reading Lesson (Don’t Freak Out)
A couple weeks ago, if you had been a fly on the wall of my house, you might have assumed my youngest son, O-Age-Seven, had never had a reading lesson
Teaching Through Bob Books Set 1: A New Series
My youngest child, Son O., is six-years-old. We began his reading lessons over the summer, just before his sixth birthday. This is the longest any of
Why Gimmick-Free?
One of the things I like to say about TRwBB is that it is oh. so. simple. In a word, it's gimmick-free. And then I hear the rumblings about how
