World Kindness Week takes place the week of November 13th, with the 13th being a specific day to celebrate kindness. We encourage you to participate in acts of kindness that week, and all throughout the month of November! Our staff has compiled a list of great books along the lines of kindness for each grade…

Our 7th Annual Symposium on October 12th was a success! We had such a fun time hearing from some great speakers throughout the day and left inspired and ready to help our learners. You can check out a few of our recordings from the event here.

While milestones most certainly vary from child to child, there are certain landmarks of developing readers as well as ways parents and adults can foster these developing skills. Take a look at this chart below.  Age Typical Reading Milestone Activities to Support Milestones 6 months At this stage, a child begins to initiate speech sounds…

In the 1930’s Orton-Gillingham was created as an approach to reading instruction to readers with “word-blindness”. Today the approach has been designed to combine direct, multi-sensory teaching strategies paired with systematic, sequential lessons focused on phonics.  Today learners across the iLEAD landscape are using the Orton-Gillingham approach to help them learn to read.We are thankful…

A fun way to encourage your learner to read is by using a printable reading log, such as this one! Your learner can color in their reading log & decorate it however they like. Every time that they finish reading a book, they get to color a book on the log & write the title…