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boosting literacy and changing the path for struggling readers.
are taught the way their brains are wired to learn.
Wisconsin State Journal
How to help struggling readers in Wisconsin
As Wisconsin begins another school year, families are once again asking an important question: What happens when a child is struggling to read?
In her Wisconsin State Journal column, Kim Feller makes the case for explicit, systematic instruction grounded in the Science of Reading—and for helping struggling readers now, not years from now.
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Midwest Book Review
BOOK REVIEW · SEPTEMBER 2026
Your Brain Loves Patterns earns high praise from Midwest Book Review
Library Bookwatch · The Parenting Shelf
“Original, iconoclastic, groundbreaking, and critically important.”
Midwest Book Review recommends Kim Feller’s Your Brain Loves Patterns for parents, teachers, school counselors, libraries and others interested in dyslexia and reading instruction.
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WisOpinion / WisPolitics
Kim Feller: Phonics key to helping more kids learn to read in Wisconsin
September 15, 2026
Kim Feller’s literacy commentary reached an additional statewide audience through WisOpinion / WisPolitics, continuing the conversation about reading instruction and helping struggling readers sooner.
Channel 3000
Feller School helps students with dyslexia learn to read
Corey Moen, Aug. 26, 2026
MADISON, Wis. — At Feller School in Madison, lessons are designed for children who learn differently.
The kindergarten-through-sixth-grade school specializes in serving students who struggle with reading, including those with dyslexia.
Educators use explicit, systematic instruction to help students decode English, build reading fluency and strengthen comprehension. The approach is designed to teach children in ways that match how they learn best.
Kim Feller, the school’s head of school, said a lack of appropriate instruction can contribute to students becoming discouraged and anxious about school.
“When children start hating school, not wanting to read, misbehaving in the classroom, maybe not sleeping at night [and having] a lot of anxiety,” Feller said, “once they get what they need to help them, all of that goes away.”
Feller School opened about five years ago with five third-grade boys in a one-room classroom inside a day care center.
Kim Feller and Her Book Featured in Education Next, a Journal Published by Harvard’s Kennedy School
For too long, teachers have been asking struggling readers to guess at words instead of helping them learn the code.
READ THE ARTICLE →Measurable progress in reading fluency.
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Feller School in the conversation
Feller School is part of Wisconsin’s growing conversation about dyslexia, literacy and the Science of Reading. Kim Feller is available for interviews, commentary, guest essays and conversations about what Wisconsin can do differently for struggling readers.
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Kim Feller is available for interviews, commentary and conversations about dyslexia, literacy, the Science of Reading and what Wisconsin can do differently for struggling readers.
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