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. The Three Core Skill Areas Educational Assessments Evaluate […]
May 31, 2022
No Child Chooses to Struggle: The Hidden Barrier Behind Learning Difficulties If you’ve ever had a child that has struggled to keep up in school or follow directions and have wondered how to help, you’re not alone. Statistics Canada reports that nearly 10% of Canadian youth have a learning disability. That means in a standard school bus, […]
May 9, 2022
Why One-on-One Instruction Provides Flexibility That Group Settings Cannot The Limitations of Group-Based Learning for Children with Skill Gaps 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 and 30 children in the most efficient way […]
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 […]
If you’ve sat through a school meeting about your child, you’ve probably heard the list: extra time, a note taker, speech-to-text, tests read aloud. These are accommodations, and they’re offered with the best of intentions. But there’s a question worth asking before you accept them as the whole plan: is anyone actually fixing the problem? […]
From the outside, every kind of academic help can look the same: a tutor, a table, a struggling child. But underneath, there are two completely different philosophies — and choosing the wrong one for your child can cost years. This page explains the difference between top-down tutoring (working at grade level on the current “ask”) […]
At Novaread, we work with families across Nova Scotia who are motivated to invest in their children’s education and overall wellbeing. We do this through the diagnosis and remediation of language-based learning difficulties. Whether a child is struggling with reading, writing, or math — or all three — our goal is to find the root […]
For close to 40 years, Novaread has worked with students with diverse learning needs across Nova Scotia. One situation we see again and again: a bright, English-speaking child enrolled in French Immersion who is quietly drowning — and nobody can see it yet. If that sounds like your child, this page explains why it happens, […]
If your bright, capable child dreads reading aloud, battles through every homework session, or can say far more than they can ever get down on paper, you are not imagining it — and neither are they. These are classic signs of a language-based learning disability (LBLD), one of the most common and most remediable reasons […]