May 7, 2022
Novaread works with families who are motivated to invest in their children’s education and overall health. We do this through the diagnosis and remediation of language based learning difficulties. How these relationships often begin The motivation we see from our families normally comes from seeing untapped potential in their child. On a daily basis that […]
August 12, 2025
At Novaread, we specialize in evidence-based, individualized instruction to help students build essential skills in literacy, expressive and receptive language, and foundational math. Our programs — Seeing Stars®, On Cloud Nine®, Visualizing and Verbalizing®, and LiPS® — are supported by extensive research and have a proven track record of success in helping students reach and […]
February 24, 2025
Math can be a tough subject for many children, and as a parent, it can be heartbreaking to see your child struggle with math and begin to dislike school as a result. If homework turns into a daily battle or your child avoids anything math-related, you’re not alone. Many children face difficulties with math, not […]
November 8, 2023
Navigating the educational journey for your child can be challenging when you find yourself confronted with more questions than answers. As children engage with the demands of the classroom, they are called upon to employ a set of foundational skills, primarily revolving around literacy, math, and language. Literacy: encompasses the ability to process written language, […]
May 31, 2022
No child makes a conscious decision to make life miserable for themselves. If they are failing to meet the expectations being placed on them in school, there could be and most often is, something making it significantly difficult for them to do so. If you’ve ever had a child that has struggled to keep up […]
May 9, 2022
The Strength of One on One or Individualized Programming is that it Provides Flexibility When and Where it is Needed During Every Step of a Program. Group In any school, public or private, you find similar designs around the classrooms and delivery of content. A variety of rooms are set up to educate between 20 […]
May 7, 2022
What is a Percentile Score? In many of the tests we, and others, use to establish areas of relative strength and weaknesses, the results are presented as percentile scores. What is a percentile score? For those who have children and have gone through the process of taking them to the pediatrician, you will be somewhat […]
A quick explanation of what is happening when you read. Let’s look at the sentence I like to run in the forest with my friends. The goal of any reading is to take meaning from it. If the reading is for enjoyment, you will need to understand what you are reading and if the reading […]
Remediation vs. Accommodation Remediation: the development of skills in order to access the innate ability within the students we work with. The students that we work with at Novaread arrive with the natural ability to interact with the expectations of their current grade. That natural ability has yet to be developed so they are struggling. […]
What is Bottom Up vs. Top Down Tutoring We are often asked what the differences between Novaread and, for the sake of this explanation, Oxford Learning are. It can be difficult to answer because answering questions like this one can lead to answers that sound like us describing why we are effective and how another […]