There's an old saying in education: first kids learn to read, then they read to learn. But that handoff doesn't always happen. Plenty of 4th–8th graders can technically "read," yet still trip over multisyllabic words and read so slowly that comprehension falls apart. It's not laziness, it's a foundational gap that quietly followed them up through the grades. The good news? These gaps are identifiable and closable at any age. That's what we work on in the Lab. 💙 — Ms. L