by Karina Richland | Jun 10, 2026 | Multisensory
Words like toy and brown reveal a sound that refuses to sit still. The vowel begins in one mouth position and glides to another before the syllable ends. The question “what is a diphthong” has a clear answer: it is one gliding vowel sound made as the...
by Karina Richland | May 28, 2026 | Multisensory
Spelling errors repeat when a child hears sounds but cannot map them to print. A structured routine gives each sound a clear path into memory and writing. Explore the PRIDE Homeschool Curriculum for structured reading and spelling lessons. Multisensory spelling...
by Karina Richland | May 16, 2026 | Multisensory
Many students struggle with reading not because they lack intelligence, but because traditional instruction only activates one or two sensory pathways at a time. Multisensory learning changes this by engaging sight, sound, touch, and movement together, building...
by Karina Richland | May 10, 2026 | Dyslexia, Multisensory, Orton-Gillingham, Phonemic Awareness, Reading
When a child struggles to read, the root cause often traces back to one foundational skill: phonemic awareness. This is the ability to hear, identify, and manipulate the individual sounds (phonemes) in spoken words. Without it, decoding written text becomes a guessing...
by Karina Richland | Apr 23, 2026 | Dyslexia, Homeschooling, Multisensory, Orton-Gillingham, phonics, PRIDE Reading Program, Reading, Structured Literacy
You have heard that the Orton-Gillingham approach is the gold standard for teaching reading to children with dyslexia and other reading difficulties. Maybe a tutor recommended it, a teacher mentioned it at a conference, or you found it while searching for answers...
by Karina Richland | Apr 13, 2026 | A PRIDE Post, Apraxia of Speech, Multisensory
Teaching a child to read is a journey of connecting sounds to symbols. For most children, this happens relatively naturally with the right instruction. But for students with Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS), the bridge between the brain’s intent to say a word and the...
