PRIDE Blogs
Here at PRIDE Reading Program, our goal is to provide parents, tutors, and teachers with tips, resources, and positive encouragement!
Multisensory Spelling Instruction: Building Strong Encoding Skills
See how multisensory spelling instruction links sounds and letters through clear routines, cumulative review, and practical reading-connected exercises.
Reading Placement Test Online: Find the Right Level
Learn what a reading placement test online can measure, how results guide a starting level, what they cannot diagnose, and when to seek support.
District Structured Literacy Rollout: An Implementation Guide
Plan a district structured literacy rollout with practical steps for needs assessment, curriculum selection, staff learning, scheduling, materials, and review.
Homeschool Language: Supporting Reading and Spelling at Home
Connect phonics, spelling, reading, vocabulary, and writing in a manageable homeschool language routine with a clear weekly plan and flexible strategies.
Learning Phonics: A Practical Structured Literacy Roadmap
Learn how phonics skills build from sound awareness to spelling and decodable text, with practical ways to choose, teach, and practice each next step.
Dyslexia Summer Program: How to Evaluate Instructional Support
Compare a dyslexia summer program by instruction, intensity, age fit, progress checks, and family communication—with questions to ask before enrolling.
Reading Progress Monitoring: Tools for Intervention
Start today with effective reading progress monitoring. Learn the best tools, key decoding and fluency indicators, and steps to take when a student stalls.
Reading Intervention for High School Students: An Age-Respectful Guide
Learn how high school reading intervention can target decoding, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension while fitting schedules and respecting teen learners.
Just Words Wilson: Where It Fits in a Structured Literacy Plan
Learn where Wilson Just Words may fit for older students, what to review before choosing an intervention, and how to plan instruction and monitor progress.
How to Teach Sight Words Using a Structured Literacy Approach
Learn why structured literacy teaches sight words through orthographic mapping instead of memorization, plus 7 practical strategies for teachers and parents.
Intensive Reading Intervention: How to Build a Targeted Plan
Plan intensive reading intervention with clear assessment, explicit instruction, appropriate dosage, progress monitoring, and family communication.
Phonemic Awareness Activities That Build a Strong Reading Foundation
10 phonemic awareness activities organized by skill type: blending, segmenting, deletion, and substitution. Research-backed strategies for teachers and parents.
Wilson Scope and Sequence: District Guide
Use a Wilson scope and sequence to review skill order, mastery, assessment, pacing, and district implementation needs before choosing a reading intervention.
Multisensory Reading Instruction: Strategies That Work for Every Learner
Learn what multisensory reading instruction is, why it works for students with dyslexia and learning differences, and 8 strategies you can use today.
Adolescent Literacy: A Framework for Older Readers
Adolescent literacy connects decoding, morphology, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension, motivation, and age-respectful support for older readers.
Reading Progress Monitoring: Tools for Intervention
Teaching a child to read without regular data is like driving a car with a broken fuel gauge. You might keep moving, but you never know when the progress will suddenly stall. Frequent checks show you exactly where a student needs the most help to grow. Ready to find...
Multisensory Reading Instruction: Strategies That Work for Every Learner
Multisensory reading instruction is a teaching method that uses sight, sound, touch, and movement to help students learn to read. Rooted in the Orton-Gillingham approach, this method creates multiple pathways in the brain for storing and retrieving information, making...
Signs of Dyslexia by Age: Early Warning Signs Parents Should Know
Dyslexia affects roughly 1 in 5 people, making it the most common learning difference. Yet many children go years without a diagnosis because the signs look different at every stage of development. A preschooler who struggles with rhyming may not raise the same red...
Temporary Spelling in Early Reading: What Parents and Teachers Need to Know
Temporary spelling, also called invented spelling or developmental spelling, is the way beginning readers and writers use what they know about sounds and letters to spell words before they have mastered conventional spelling. A child might write KT for cat, frend for...
Barton Reading and Spelling: A Practical Comparison Guide
Choosing a structured reading program is not only a question of which method sounds familiar. Families and tutors also need to consider who will teach, how lessons are sequenced, what materials are included, and how progress will be checked over time. The barton...
Language Arts Homeschool Curriculum: A Parent Guide
Choosing language arts for home education can feel like choosing several subjects at once. Reading, spelling, writing, grammar, and literature may appear in one package, but they do not always receive the same depth of instruction.A strong language arts homeschool...
How to Teach Reading Using the Orton-Gillingham Approach
Many children struggle to read, and teachers and parents often wonder what they can do differently. The Orton-Gillingham approach is one of the most effective methods for teaching reading, especially for students with dyslexia or other reading difficulties. Rooted in...
Dyslexia Signs: 8 Warning Signs Every Parent Should Recognize
If your child struggles with reading and you have a gut feeling that something is not quite right, you are not alone. Dyslexia is the most common learning disability in the United States, affecting roughly 1 in 5 children. According to the International Dyslexia...
Dyslexia Treatment: What Reading Support Can Do
When families search for dyslexia treatment, they are often looking for a clear path forward. The most useful answer starts with an important distinction: dyslexia is identified through a qualified evaluation, while reading instruction helps a learner build specific...
Online Reading Tutor Cost: A Family Budget Guide
Families often compare reading support by the price of a single session, but that number rarely tells the whole story. The real cost can also include assessments, teaching materials, digital access, convenience, and the adult time needed between lessons. Browse...
Orton Gillingham Resources for Parents and Tutors
When a child is guessing at words, avoiding reading, or forgetting a phonics pattern from one lesson to the next, more worksheets are rarely the answer. Progress usually depends on instruction that is explicit, sequential, and consistent, with enough review for each...
Best Reading Curriculum for Dyslexia: What Works
Choosing a reading curriculum for a child with dyslexia can feel overwhelming, especially when programs use similar promises and unfamiliar terms. The most useful question is not which curriculum has the longest lesson list. But whether its instruction is clear,...
The Best Online Dyslexia Programs for Families at Home
When a child keeps guessing at words, memorizing sight words, or tiring quickly during reading, more screen time is not automatically the answer. The instruction matters. Dyslexia calls for lessons that make the structure of spoken and written language clear, practice...
How to Choose a Homeschool Reading Curriculum
Choosing a reading program can feel overwhelming, especially when every option promises a clear path forward. The right fit should give you more than appealing activities. It should show you what to teach, when to teach it, and how each skill supports the next. The...
PRIDE vs All About Reading: Choosing the Right OG Program
Choosing a reading curriculum can feel high-stakes when your child needs more than another set of worksheets. Two popular options, PRIDE Reading Program and All About Reading, both use structured, multisensory instruction rooted in the Orton-Gillingham approach. The...