Note: If you are already a Scholar Within Reading & Spelling Program member, you have access to the same material as in the summer program. Table of Contents The struggle is real when it comes to keeping your K-8th graders entertained and educated during the summer months! After all, there’s only so much Minecraft, swimming,…
Author: Bonnie Terry
Bonnie Terry is a board-certified educational therapist with over 35 years of experience. She has helped tens of thousands of students across the world improve their reading and overall learning skills through materials she has custom designed.
Bonnie started a private learning center in the 1990s when she began designing and developing her own custom learning tools, books, and games. When teachers started asking her what she was doing with the kids who came to see her and where they could get some of her tools. That’s when she decided to make her materials available to all. Her tools are now used all over the world.
Reading Comprehension Strategies
Reading comprehension strategies are a great way to improve your reading comprehension skills. Reading comprehension is the ability to understand, analyze, synthesize, and use what you have read. When you use specific strategies, you make it easier to understand and remember what you have read. “Comprehension is now viewed as a much more complex process…
Top 6 Reading Fluency Activities
Reading fluency is the speed or rate of reading without conscious attention to the mechanics of reading. A fluent reader has the ability to read and understand words automatically. They are able to more easily comprehend complete sentences and entire reading selections.
Sleeping Tips and Solutions for Sleep Problems
How to Adjust to the Time Change Table of Contents Overview Sleep problems can affect all of us and are especially difficult with the time change. Sleep is critical for our minds, memory, learning, and development. While sleeping, your brain organizes information, makes connections, and even solves problems. Sleeping tips and solutions can help you…
10 Spelling Activities for Any Word List
Looking for a method to the madness of learning to spell? Take a look at Scholar Within’s spelling program. We teach spelling through spelling patterns with systematic step-by-step video lessons and hands-on activities. Learn More Spelling activities can make spelling practice a bit more fun and can help with spelling problems. Spelling problems can happen because…
Top 10 Educational Games for Kids (and Adults!)
The best educational games for kids are sometimes the games that don’t even seem like they are educational. The games are fun and engaging. Each player can make substantial choices throughout the game. The gameplay makes you think. Kids and even adults become more engaged in games that have greater levels of choice than those…
Tactile-Kinesthetic Learning
What is tactile-kinesthetic learning? We all learn through hearing, seeing, and doing. Tactile-kinesthetic learning is the ability to make sense of the world through touch, movement, and doing. It’s the ability to identify, organize, and interpret the environment through touch and movement. Tactile and kinesthetic learners are able to understand and remember information better when…
What is Reading Fluency?
Reading Fluency Definition Reading fluency is the ability to read smoothly, easily, and quickly. Good readers can read words automatically without having to sound out each syllable (also known as decoding). In other words, you don’t have to spend a lot of effort and attention on the mechanics of reading. Reading becomes easy. Word recognition…
Parent-Teacher Conference Questions
Parent-teacher conferences are the perfect time for you to ask questions and to get a report from your child’s teacher. This is your opportunity to discuss what you see at home, as well as what the teacher sees at school. Many kids are still behind due to COVID-19 disrupting learning. Studies are showing that students on average could have…
COVID-19 Learning Loss
Enrollment for Summer Reading Program 2022 is now open! Register Now Is your child behind? One of the most heard concerns from parents is that they worry that their child is behind. In fact, learning loss during COVID-19 is something we should all be aware of. You know as well as I know how your…
