HeyJaredBeyond the Box Learning
Educating and encouraging parents and teachers of kids who learn differently, author, blogger, and veteran homeschool mom of seven of her own outside the box learners Marianne Sunderland teaches honestly from her many years educating her own kids with dyslexia and ADHD.
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What I Wish I Knew When I Started Homeschooling My Struggling Learners (opens the original)
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When I first started homeschooling more than 30 years ago, I had no idea what homeschooling a child with dyslexia was supposed to look like. In this episode, I'm sharing the story of how homeschooling my own outside-the-box learners completely changed the way I think about education. Seven of my eight children have been diagnosed with dyslexia, and some also have ADHD, dysgraphia, or dyscalculia. Over the years, I learned that my kids didn't need me to recreate school at home. They needed an edu
Why Your Child Can Read a Word but Still Can’t Spell It (opens the original)
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Have you ever wondered why your child can read a word correctly but still struggle to spell that same word? This is incredibly common for kids with dyslexia. Reading and spelling are closely connected, but they require different skills. Reading involves recognizing and decoding words that are already in front of us. Spelling requires a child to retrieve sounds, spelling patterns, and word structures from memory and reproduce them independently. For many kids with dyslexia, that makes spelling th
Teaching Kids With Dyslexia to Read: What Progress Really Looks Like (opens the original)
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If you're teaching a child with dyslexia to read, you may have wondered: Is this actually working? Maybe you're using an Orton-Gillingham-based reading program consistently, but progress still seems painfully slow. Your child remembers a phonogram one day and forgets it the next. They decode a word correctly on one page and don't recognize it on the next. That doesn't necessarily mean your reading program isn't working. In this episode of the Beyond the Box Learning Podcast, we're talking about
ADHD Is More Than Focus: What Parents Often Miss (opens the original)
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When most parents think about ADHD, they think about difficulty paying attention, distractibility, or the child who simply can't sit still. But ADHD affects so much more than focus . This episode was inspired by a recent conversation in my online mentoring group. As we talked about children with ADHD, several of the moms began sharing their own experiences of living with ADHD. What struck me most wasn't their difficulty focusing. It was the way years of struggling with things that seemed easy fo
How to Build Independent Learning With Dyslexia and ADHD (opens the original)
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Does it feel like your kids need you for every single part of the homeschool day? You’re teaching one child while another needs help logging into math. Someone forgot what they’re supposed to be doing. Someone else can’t find their pencil. And the child you just got started is back three minutes later because they’re stuck. 😂 For kids with dyslexia, ADHD, and executive function weaknesses, independent learning can be especially challenging —but often not for the reasons we think. In this episode
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