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The Literacy Keys - Dyslexia resources and structured literacy tips by an Orton Gillingham tutor

Tracy Young, Orton Gillingham Tutor, Dyslexia Specialist & Mom of a Dyslexic Kid

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If you’re raising a child with dyslexia or a kid who’s struggling to read, write, and spell, stop guessing what to do next. I’m Tracy Young, a certified Orton-Gillingham tutor, dyslexia specialist, and this podcast will empower you to unlock reading, writing, and spelling success for your child. You’ll uncover structured literacy tips and practical advice about dyslexia (in plain English) to help you turn I can't into I can. Follow our weekly episodes and share them with others! Contact TheLiteracyKeys.com for a dyslexia tutor.

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Dyslexia Screener Flagged Your Kid? Think of it as an eye chart. (+ 5 questions to ask)

Saison 2 · Épisode 37

jeudi 17 septembre 2026 • Durée 22:43

If you just received an At-Risk Letter, discover what to do with that information. Do you know which specific skill the dyslexia screener actually flagged? Most parents never find out, and that answer changes everything about what you do next. This episode will help you reframe a dyslexia screener as the eye chart, not the glasses.

By the end of this episode you'll be able to understand an at-risk letter for what it really says, and walk into the school with five questions that get you real answers.

More than half of US states now require schools to screen young children for reading risk, which is why these letters are suddenly being sent to parents. In Georgia, every student from kindergarten through third grade is screened three times a year, and the school has fifteen school days to notify you in writing.

I'm Tracy Young, an ALTA certified Orton-Gillingham tutor and mom to a dyslexic daughter. A screening takes five to twenty minutes and samples a few narrow skills. It's like the nurse at the pediatrician’s office saying your child should probably see an eye doctor. She didn't prescribe glasses.

Discover how to:

1.Tell the difference between a dyslexia screener and a full evaluation

2.Read the subscores and know which flag deserves a closer look

3.Send one email with five questions that starts a key paper trail

4.Spot the quieter signs in an older child who never got a letter at all

If you know another parent who received an at-risk letter about a dyslexia screener, please share this episode with them, tap follow, and leave a quick rating.

Cheers,

Tracy Young

Orton Gillingham Tutor

Find The Literacy Keys

Instagram: @theliteracykeys

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Website: TheLiteracyKeys.com

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00:00 Understanding the at-risk letter

04:15 Dyslexia Screeners: what they measure

08:33 Three things to know

12:10 Five questions to ask the school

19:47 Final thoughts

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Early Signs of Dyslexia in Toddlers: What Parents Need To Watch For

Saison 2 · Épisode 36

jeudi 10 septembre 2026 • Durée 30:56

Picture your four-year-old standing on the front porch in a backpack that hangs down past their knees. Everybody is smiling for the first-day-of-preschool photo. Not one person in that picture is thinking about the early signs of dyslexia.

After this episode, you'll know what to watch for in a two year old toddler, in a four year old preschooler, and for a six year old child. Plus discover one easy thing to do that takes five minutes a day.

Brain differences linked to reading show up in babies who are still in diapers, years before anyone hands a child a book. Meanwhile, the average child in this country isn't identified until after the third grade. The windows are in the wrong order, and that gap is where families lose years they never needed to lose. I missed every one of these signs in my own daughter, which is exactly why I'm walking you through the early signs of dyslexia.

Learn to:

1. Recognize the early signs of dyslexia by age

2. Read your family tree like a detective

3. Explain what at risk actually means

4. Use the five-minute-a-day activity that predicts reading success

5. Ask your child's school the specific question about reading instruction

If you know another parent of a struggling reader who's been told to wait and see, please share this episode with them. Tap follow so next week's episode finds you, and leave a quick rating.

If you're seeing a cluster of these early signs of dyslexia in your child and you want a second set of eyes on it, book a free 15-minute consultation at https://theliteracykeys.com/contact/ No pressure and no pitch, just a clear next step.

Dyscalculia Symptoms: 9 Signs Parents Miss (+ 5 Books That Will Help You Understand What Is Dyscalculia)

Saison 2 · Épisode 35

jeudi 3 septembre 2026 • Durée 33:17

Picture your child at the table, counting a small handful of coins for the third time while telling time on the clock is a total mystery. You’re concerned but aren’t sure why.

Let me share that dyscalculia symptoms rarely announce themselves in one dramatic moment. By the end of this episode, you'll know nine signs to look for; understand what is dyscalculia in plain language and discover five books that will make your journey feel a lot less lonely.

A while back, a family asked if I could help their dyslexic son with math. I said yes, and then went straight down the research rabbit hole. Dyslexia and dyscalculia travel together far more often than parents are told. Roughly 30% of kids who have dyslexia will also have dyscalculia. That doesn’t mean that you need to have dyslexia to have dyscalculia.

Here's what this episode hands you:

Recognize the nine dyscalculia symptoms parents and teachers miss: from telling time on an analog clock, to retrieving basic math facts. This will help you explain: “what is dyscalculia?” to your child's teacher, without any clinical jargon. Then discover 5 must-have books on the subject.

If your child is fighting reading or math and you are not sure where the foundation cracked, book a free 15-minute consultation at https://theliteracykeys.com/contact/ No pressure and no pitch, just a clear next step.

Lastly, if you know another confused parent, please share this episode with them, follow the show so next week's episode finds you, and leave a quick rating.

Cheers, Tracy Young

Orton Gillingham Tutor

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2e Kids: A Parent's Guide to Twice Exceptional (+ How to Get School Support)

Saison 2 · Épisode 34

jeudi 27 août 2026 • Durée 29:00

Your child holds it together for seven hours at school, but then walks in the door, drops their backpack on the floor and quickly comes undone over a granola bar!

For many 2e kids, that end-of-the-school-day meltdown is the most honest assessment you’ll get all year. Discover what makes 2e kids unique.

By the end of this episode you will know what the term means and what to do with it. Learn

* Why strong grades and real struggle can live inside the same child

* The kind of evaluation that actually finds the gaps

* The two grades where twice exceptional teens most often stop coping

My guest is Mark Talaga, owner and director of the Center for Identity Potential, a practice in Michigan and Chicago that works with gifted, neurodivergent, wonderfully complicated kids. Mark got fired from a video game job years before anyone told him that he was twice exceptional. He believes the 2e label is too small, and that most of these kids are closer to 10e. That's why so many 2e kids get told they are too smart to qualify for an IEP.

Now, if you are wondering whether your child's reading, writing, and spelling struggles are the whole story, book a no pressure, free 15-minute consultation at https://theliteracykeys.com/contact/

If you know another parent whose bright kid is quietly running on empty, please share this episode with them. Hit the +follow button (under the three ... on the top right) so next week's episode finds you.

Cheers, Tracy Young,

Orton Gillingham Tutor

The Literacy Keys

Read Alouds: What Nobody Explains To Parents (+ Unlocking The Question: Why Is It Important To Read To Your Child After Age Eight?)

Saison 2 · Épisode 33

jeudi 20 août 2026 • Durée 21:18

This episode is all about read alouds and unlocking why oral reading is important for your child. Hint: Because their ears are years ahead. By the end of this episode, you’ll:

Know why picking up books for read alouds does more for your child than another thirty minutes of sounding out words.
Explain why your child's listening brain is years ahead of their reading brain, and exactly how long that head start lasts
Use the stop, swap, and go method to hand your child a new word in about six seconds, without turning the story into a vocabulary quiz
Pick the right book for a read aloud,
Run the whole plan in fifteen minutes a night, three nights a week

If you're wondering whether read alouds are enough, or if your child also needs decoding work, book a free 15-minute consultation at https://theliteracykeys.com/contact/

No pressure and no pitch, just a clear next step.

If you know another parent who quietly put the bedtime book away too soon, please share this episode with them, follow the show so next week's episode finds you, and leave a quick rating.

Cheers, Tracy Young,

Orton Gillingham Tutor

Find The Literacy Keys

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Robots for Education: Should You Panic? Probably Not (+ what parents need to know about the robot teacher)

Saison 2 · Épisode 32

jeudi 13 août 2026 • Durée 24:34

A school district in New York just spent $57,590 on a humanoid robot named Sally, then hit pause days before the robot reached the classroom. The story behind robots for education is messy, and a lot more useful to you than the headlines made it sound. By the end of this episode, you'll know which tools can actually help your child read, and which ones to keep at arm's length.

Here's what got lost in the noise. The robot was never the scary part. What matters for your child is who's in charge, and what the technology is really being used for. In this episode, host Tracy Young breaks down what happened in that New York classroom, why the backlash had less to do with the robot than you'd guess, and what it signals for the school your own kid walks into this fall.

She also shares a quieter story: a group of students who built and programmed their own robot years ago, with nobody panicking at all. That one detail will change how you see this entire debate.

After listening, you'll:

- Tell the difference between a tool that builds your child's thinking and one that just hides the gap

- Ask your school the question that reveals whether robots for education are actually being supervised

- Use AI at home for practice without letting it replace the real teaching

- Protect the human connection your child needs most, in ten minutes a night

- Feel calm, and in control the next time an artificial intelligence in schools headline lands in your feed

About Tracy:

I'm Tracy Young, an ALTA certified Orton-Gillingham Educational Therapist, founder of The Literacy Keys, and mom to a dyslexic daughter. If you're worried your child is falling behind, reach out: https://theliteracykeys.com/contact/

High School Tutoring: Why Do Teens Hate Tutoring? Blame the Alphabet (+ The Fix)

Saison 2 · Épisode 31

jeudi 6 août 2026 • Durée 36:16

When was the last time anyone asked your teenager what they actually think of high school tutoring? My daughter Alexandrine joins me to provide her perspective.

By the end of this episode you'll know why tutoring quietly fails so many in high school, and exactly what to look for and how to:

Tell the difference between a tutor with one week of training and one with hundreds of logged hours

Ask the three questions that reveal whether someone can actually connect with a teenager

Understand why I use spelling, not decks, to find the gaps in an older student's reading

Use the three-session rule to save you from spending six months with the wrong fit

Choose from four real ways to pay for tutoring, including your state's ESA funds

Alexandrine was diagnosed with dyslexia as a junior in high school, and she will tell you plainly that she despised high school tutoring. Her first tutor was wonderful with little kids but had limited experience with a sixteen-year-old taking AP classes. They talked about the alphabet. Alex shut down completely, and stayed shut down.

That wasn't a discipline problem or a bad attitude. It was a mismatch, and it's the most common reason tutoring stops working for older students. Virtual tutoring wasn't really a thing and we didn't have many high school tutoring options.

If you're not sure whether your teen needs tutoring, testing, or something else entirely, book a free 15-minute consultation. No pressure and no pitch, just a clear next step.

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Struggling Reader? Think of Swiss Cheese (+ How to Fill the Holes and Reading Gaps)

Saison 2 · Épisode 30

jeudi 30 juillet 2026 • Durée 25:31

Today's thirteen-year-olds read at about the same level teens did back in 1971. If you're raising a struggling reader that explains a lot. By the end of this episode, you'll reframe your child's struggling reading as Swiss cheese, holes you can find and fill.

Kids who slip past the early school years get very good at hiding. They memorize, they guess, they lean on others. That isn't laziness. It's a gap in the system, and gaps can be filled.

I'm Tracy Young, an Orton-Gillingham trained, ALTA-certified tutor and the mom of a dyslexic daughter. In this episode I walk you through how to help a struggling reader who is already past the early grades.

Here's what you'll walk away with:

A way to find your child's real reading level
The one kind of instruction older kids almost never get
A plan for finding books that respect a fourteen-year-old's age and their reading level at the same time

If you'd like help mapping your own child's reading holes, book a free 15-minute consultation at The Literacy Keys. No pressure and no pitch, just a clear next step.

If this episode resonated with you, please share it, follow the show so next week's episode finds you, and leave a quick rating.

Cheers,

Tracy Young,

Orton Gillingham Tutor at The Literacy Keys

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Who Kicked? How to Improve Reading Comprehension in tweens, teens and adults (+3 tips to improve comprehension)

Saison 2 · Épisode 29

jeudi 23 juillet 2026 • Durée 26:34

If you've been searching for how to improve reading comprehension for your tween, teen, or even yourself, this episode hands you the missing piece that everyone forgets to share. Plus you’ll find three fixes you can try this week.

Somewhere between Middle School and High School the format of our books change. The sentences get longer, twistier, and they start hiding "who did what to whom" inside layers of clauses. So someone who was a perfectly fine reader in the lower grades can suddenly hit a wall in reading comprehension. New research suggests that understanding sentence structure can provide improved comprehension in older students.

In this episode, I walk you through that research in plain English, including the sneaky little sentence that inspired this title.

After listening, you'll:

Know why readers suddenly struggle in the upper grades, and why it's not laziness, attention, or too much screen time.
Be able to spot the exact moment a tricky sentence derails your child's understanding, using one simple question that takes thirty seconds.
Have three practical ways to improve comprehension at home this week, including the one technique with the strongest research behind it.
Understand what not to waste your time on.
Walk away knowing a short list of learnable patterns.

If your older student is hitting this wall and you're wondering whether this is the missing piece or something more, let's figure it out together. Book a free 15-minute consultation at The Literacy Keys

If you know another parent whose child has hit a mysterious reading comprehension wall, please share this episode with them. Don't forget to follow the show so next week's episode finds you.

Graphic Novels for Kids...Real Reading? Yes, and Here's Why (+ 5 Ways to Build a Reader)

Saison 2 · Épisode 28

jeudi 16 juillet 2026 • Durée 23:10

A parent's guide to graphic novels for kids: what they build, what to skip, and how to choose well. After this episode, you'll view graphic novels for kids for what they really are: a powerful tool to build a confident reader.

Right around age nine, the number of kids who read for fun falls off a cliff. Researchers call it "the decline by nine," and it hits struggling readers the hardest.

In this episode, I'll share why your child is not giving up on reading if they choose this genre. Think of graphic novels for kids as your child opening another door. Discover the surprising history of the format, what the research says about how pictures lighten the decoding load, and why the Yale Center for Dyslexia and Creativity calls graphic novels "grand equalizers."

After listening, you'll:

* Understand why so many kids quietly quit reading around age nine

* See how graphic novels for kids free up brain power to enjoy the story

* Spot the difference between layouts

* Have five simple, low-pressure ways to build a love of reading

* Feel confident saying yes to graphic novels for teens without letting your child off easy

If the decoding underneath is still a real battle, that's the work I do every day. Book a free 15-minute consultation at https://theliteracykeys.com/contact/ to discuss your needs.

If you know another parent whose kid only reads graphic novels, share this episode with them, and click that follow button so next week's episode lands right in your feed.

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