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Community Connections - The right to read: Steamboat Reading empowers struggling readers
In Routt County, we pride ourselves on our strong sense of community. We believe in supporting one another and helping our neighbors. Yet, there’s a struggle many children in our community face that often goes unnoticed — the struggle to learn to read. Reading is a fundamental skill that gives people access to education and opportunity. For some children, reading feels like an impossible mountain to climb.
Thoughtful Parenting: Back-to-school routines
Going back to school brings mixed emotions of excitement and nervousness for a new year, but many parents also dread having to get their child(ren) out of the house and to school on time. Setting up evening and morning routines can make mornings more enjoyable. Many children struggle with getting ready for school because they do not yet have the executive functioning skills needed.
Thoughtful Parenting: Learning about dyslexia during awareness month
Kim Schulz For Steamboat Pilot & Today Why does dyslexia need an awareness month? The short answer to this question is the prevalence and misunderstanding of it. Studies from the National Institute of Health and Yale University show that about 15% to 20% of the population with average to superior intelligence struggle with reading, writing and/or spelling. It is likely that you know someone with this brain-based learning difference.
Thoughtful Parenting: On a new path
Kim Schulz For Steamboat Pilot & Today When talking about schools and education, it’s common to hear how our children are “falling behind.” As an educator, this seems a little off the mark to me. Exactly who are they falling behind? We have no measure to compare students who have faced such major changes to their daily lives due to a global pandemic. There are no groups of children who have previously followed this path to compare the data.
Thoughtful Parenting: Dyslexia awareness
Kim Schulz Steamboat Pilot & Today October is Dyslexia Awareness Month. Studies from the National Institute of Health and Yale University show that about 15% to 20% of the population with average to superior intelligence struggle with reading, writing and/or spelling. It is likely that you know someone with this brain-based learning difference. Facts about dyslexia People with dyslexia typically have challenges with accurate and fluent reading and spelling.
Cyberbullying: How To Spot It And How To Stop It
by Kim Schulz, VP of Youth Development, YMCA of Metro Denver Virtual schooling has more kids and teens online now than ever before. While technology has led to ease of learning, resources and flexibility, it can also make more teens vulnerable to cyberbullying. Remember, bullying doesn’t just happen at school. It can happen anywhere, including through texting, the internet, social media and gaming platforms. So, just what is cyberbullying?
Thoughtful Parenting: The road to reading
Kim Schulz For Steamboat Pilot & Today Learning to read is such an exciting milestone in a child’s development. For some children it seems to come effortlessly, but for the vast majority, it takes explicit instruction and a lot of practice. While teachers of young children are who we rely on to have the knowledge to teach the specific skills needed to master reading, parents can also help their children on this journey.
Thoughtful Parenting: Diversity in summer reading
Kim Schulz For Steamboat Pilot & Today Recent events have brought the conversation of race to the forefront. Summer reading is an opportunity to use books to spark conversations about race and other aspects of diversity, including but not limited to socioeconomic status, ethnicity, language, learning differences and disabilities. It’s a continuing conversation that is important to have with children of all ages. It also gives us an opportunity to examine our own beliefs, bias and privilege.
Community Connections: Steamboat Reading
Kim Schulz For Steamboat Pilot & Today Steamboat Reading’s mission is to create a community of support for struggling readers and their families by providing tutoring, assessment, advocacy, and parent education. This summer may look vastly different for many children. There is still a lot of uncertainty about the months ahead. Steamboat Reading provided consistent support and guidance to students and families and will continue to offer support through the summer.
Thoughtful Parenting: Reading with your child
Kim Schulz For Steamboat Pilot & Today One thing that professionals who work with children agree on is that reading to your child is important. Reading to your child gives you time to be close and connect. But what are you helping your children learn when you make time to snuggle up and read together? At different ages, children are learning a variety of skills when you read to them. Many of the skills that are beginning to develop at one stage continue to develop as your child grows.
Thoughtful Parenting: Back-to-school routines
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Thoughtful Parenting: National March into Literacy Month
"The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go." Dr. Seuss was born March 2, 1904. In honor of his birthday, March is National March into Literacy Month. Dr. Seuss encouraged all to have fun with reading, and that's your role as a parent — to help your child develop a love for reading and an interest in language. The following are ideas about how to do that. Before they are born, children learn to tune into the sounds of language.
Thoughtful Parenting: Strength-based parenting
As parents, we want our children to be successful in school and in life, and it can become easy to focus on the things that they need to do to improve. But, research shows us that when parents instead focus attention on children's strengths — identifying and pointing out the things they do well — children are more engaged in school, they have an easier time interacting with friends, they experience less stress and they do better academically.
Thoughtful Parenting: What is dyslexia?
When your child struggles to learn to read, it can be difficult to sort through all the information you might receive from doctors, teachers and reading specialists. Following is a summary of the basics. There are many different phrases you may hear to describe a child's challenges with reading. Like many things, reading difficulties occur on a continuum. Children can struggle only a bit, or they can have significant difficulty learning to read.
Thoughtful Parenting: Learning to read
Learning to read is nothing short of a miracle. Our brains are not built for reading. Steven Pinker famously said, "Children are wired for sound, but print is an optional accessory that must be painstakingly bolted on." Our brains easily acquire the sounds of language through lots of exposure.
Thoughtful Parenting: Learning to read
Learning to read is nothing short of a miracle. Our brains are not built for reading. Steven Pinker famously said, "Children are wired for sound, but print is an optional accessory that must be painstakingly bolted on." Our brains easily acquire the sounds of language through lots of exposure.
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