This article was written by Dr. Aimee Ketchum, OTD, OTR/L, a pediatric occupational therapist in the NICU at UPMC hospital, the owner/operator of STEM Starts Now early child development program and ...

This fun activity teaches and reinforces common sight words to build reading fluency. Sight words make up 50 to 75% of all words in early reading materials. These are whole words learned by sight, ...

Many words don't follow basic decoding rules and are taught in pre-k and kindergarten classrooms as "sight words", "instant words", "high frequency words" or "star words". A new reader finds sight ...