Monthly Archives June 2018

What’s your passion? Your heartbeat? That thing that gives you purpose and is worth fighting for? Our passion at Reading Tricks is to help struggling readers and non-readers learn how to read–and we do that by teaching you how to teach them! This week we want to share our passion with you, and we’re hoping that you can take a few minutes to share it with others. If every person shares it with even just one person, think of how quickly it could spread. We long to exude contagious passion–to grow a community of people willing to fight for those
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Building trust with our kids and students is important but takes some intentionality. One way we can do this is by giving genuine compliments. Kids are able to tell when we are giving false praise or empty compliments just to make them feel better. So rather than using empty words and teaching them not to trust what we say, let’s find things we can genuinely praise them for–building trust that our words have meaning! We can compliment our students on natural abilities, strong character, personality, hard work, good choices, fun ideas, and countless other areas. Be observant and creative, and
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Building self-esteem in our kids can be accomplished in a variety of ways, but one of our Reading Tricks teachers shares a simple way of intentionally doing so by purposefully letting our kids overhear our conversations. Rather than talking about our kids’ struggles and learning differences in a way that makes them feel insecure, let’s have conversations they can overhear where we are talking about their strengths and gifts. We could mention their abilities in sports, music, or art; or we could even make specific comments about growth in areas they struggle with, i.e., hard work or improvement in their
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