Unlocking Reading Success for Struggling Learners

As a Literacy Specialist with dual Master’s degrees in Special Education and Divergent Learning, I often get asked: “Why is my child struggling to connect letters to sounds?” The answer often lies in the Science of Reading—the gold standard for how the human brain actually learns to decode language.

In my 7+ years of tutoring, I’ve seen that reading isn’t a natural skill like walking; it’s a code that needs to be broken. For our “rising readers” and neurodiverse learners, traditional methods sometimes fall short. By using multisensory strategies and evidence-based instruction, we can turn frustration into “lightbulb moments.”

For grades 3-5: From sentences to stories:

1. Reading Comprehension: Helping students identify the who (Subject) and the what (Predicate) so they don’t get lost in complex paragraphs.
2. Writing Mastery: Teaching the building blocks needed to move from simple sentences to professional-sounding compositions.
3. Reducing Anxiety: Using the “Baseball” theme to make technical grammar feel like a game rather than a chore.
4. You can find my Baseball Game of predicates and subjects in my TPT store here:https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Baseball-Grammar-Complete-Sentence-Boom-Cards-16058250

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