PRIDE Blogs
Here at PRIDE Reading Program, our goal is to provide parents, tutors, and teachers with tips, resources, and positive encouragement!
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.
Signs of Dyslexia by Age: Early Warning Signs Parents Should Know
Recognize the signs of dyslexia at every age, from preschool through teens. Learn what to look for and when to seek help for your child.
What Is the Science of Reading? A Teacher and Parent Guide
Learn what the science of reading is, why it matters, and how models like Scarborough’s Reading Rope guide structured literacy instruction for every learner.
Science of Reading Lesson Plan: A Practical Guide
Build a Science of Reading lesson plan with phonemic awareness, explicit phonics, encoding, decodable text, and cumulative review for classroom use.
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...
Reading Intervention for Middle School: Structured Literacy for Older Students
By middle school, reading challenges rarely stay confined to language arts. A student may understand a class discussion yet struggle to decode the multisyllabic words in a science chapter. Read fluently enough to keep up, or connect ideas across a history text. That...
How to Teach Orton-Gillingham Spelling Rules: A Complete Guide
Spelling can feel frustrating when a child is asked to memorize long lists of words without understanding why the letters belong together. Homeschool instruction becomes more manageable when each pattern is taught directly, practiced through several senses, and...
How to Choose a Homeschool Dyslexia Curriculum That Works
Choosing reading instruction at home can feel overwhelming, especially when a child needs more than a general language arts program. The right curriculum should give you a clear sequence, practical guidance, and a way to see whether your child is ready to build the...
Vocabulary Instruction and Reading Comprehension: What Research Says
As students move into third grade and beyond, reading increasingly becomes a way to learn science, history, and new ideas, not just a skill to practice. A student may read every word accurately and still miss the meaning when unfamiliar terms block access to the text....
Reading Intervention for Middle School Students: What Works
An eighth-grade student stares at a history textbook, unable to decode the words on the page. When basic decoding skills are missing, teens cannot learn the content in their school books. Effective reading intervention for middle school students must target both...
Executive Function and Reading Comprehension: A Parent’s Guide
Many children decode words well but cannot explain what they just read. This common struggle often occurs when a child has weak mental skills. These core brain skills help students connect letters to meaning and track the story. The link between executive function and...
MTSS Reading Intervention: A Guide for School Administrators
Waiting for a student to fail a reading test before offering help is a costly mistake. School leaders need smart systems that catch learning gaps early and provide structured support right away. Schedule a consultation to bring evidence-based reading intervention to...
Best Homeschool Reading Curriculum for Dyslexia
Finding the right tools to teach a child with dyslexia at home can feel like a heavy burden. Many traditional programs rely on guessing, which often leaves struggling readers behind. The best homeschool reading curriculum for dyslexia must be a structured literacy...
Heart Words: A Structured Literacy Teaching Guide
Rote memorization often fails struggling readers when they encounter words that do not follow standard phonics rules. Traditional sight word lists force children to guess rather than map sounds to letters. This new approach helps students master heart words with...
Corrective Feedback in Reading Instruction: A Routine
Corrective Feedback in Reading Instruction: A Simple Routine A student reads ship as shop. What should you say next? Effective corrective feedback in reading instruction is immediate, specific, and brief. Instead of saying only "try again" or supplying the answer too...
Oral Language and Reading Comprehension Guide
Every child must learn to understand spoken words before they can ever hope to read them. This early speech builds the path for future success in school. Explore PRIDE's Reading Comprehension Program to help your child build understanding step by step. Oral language...
Morphology Instruction for Reading and Spelling Success
A student meets the word disagreement. Instead of guessing or sounding out all 12 letters one by one, the student spots three meaningful parts: dis-, agree, and -ment. That is morphology instruction in action. It teaches developing and dyslexic readers to use the...
Explicit Vocabulary Instruction Strategies That Work
Many students hit a wall when they find difficult words in a text. Simple reading rarely builds the deep word knowledge kids need to understand new ideas. Using direct methods to teach new terms can bridge the gap between reading words and knowing what they mean....