Where the rubber hits the road with blending skills Why there are so many reading program wrecks in the ditches Here are the reasons that most reading programs fail to change the skills of children at risk. Many of these programs promote guessing rather than use effective strategies to determine the word. Maybe that’s why the needle hasn’t dropped on the index of illiterateContinue reading “Where the rubber hits the road with blending skills”
The Challenge of Blending Sounds Into Words – Why Most Instructors Can’t Do It! Once a student knows how to figure out sounds and sound combinations, they are ready to use these skills to sound ourt phonetically regular words. Of the most common 1000 words in English, which constitute 85% of all written material, 650 are phonetically regular words and can be quickly and easily unlocked with appropriate blendingContinue reading “The Challenge of Blending Sounds Into Words – Why Most Instructors Can’t Do It!”
Let’s Turn Those Sounds Into Words Once you teach students the sounds and sound combinations,, all 67 of them, you can then teach them to blend the sounds and sound combinations into words. Despite the fact that 650 of the most commonly used English words are phonetically regular and can be sounded out, there are some dangers here. You must alwaysContinue reading “Let’s Turn Those Sounds Into Words”
Now Let’s Put Those Sounds Together Into Words Once you have taught the sounds and sound combinations so that the student can crack the code, you can teach them to read words and stories. In our learning center, which opened in 1979 and has always given parents a money-back guarantee for their child’s learning, we use Direct Instruction programs. In our programs, noContinue reading “Now Let’s Put Those Sounds Together Into Words”
Teaching Kids to Guess at Words – Are You Nuts? Some reading programs encourage kids to use pictures, or context or the first sounds of a word to figure out what that word might be.. They are teaching the student to guess, not to decode. Here are some strategies to teach reading more effectively. https://youtu.be/MdjpU6-Y9l0
One Scientific Educational Approach and its Money-Back Guarantee for ASD Kids Here’s where it all began At the end of November 2008 after teaching special needs kids for 35 years, I began a new journey, both literally and figuratively into the world of autism. I was invited by Eva Hyto, founder of the Hong Kong Junior School, to assist her in setting up an academic programContinue reading “One Scientific Educational Approach and its Money-Back Guarantee for ASD Kids”
It Really Is Time to Start Winning the Battle Against School Failure! Have you had enough of “winning” yet? Here’s an educational win with a mountain of proof and positive results to support it over the past 5 decades. 35% of our students are consistently failing because we fail to teach them. Nobody in education or education management seems to have an adequate solution, except to blameContinue reading “It Really Is Time to Start Winning the Battle Against School Failure!”
Teaching Reading Effectively – The Method Teaching someone to read can be a joy or a catastrophe. Some children learn easily, others struggle mightily. Thirty to thirty-five percent of children will have some degree of difficulty learning to read. Reading problems make everything else about schooling incredibly more difficult. From a review of 100,000 studies on reading instruction, there are proven effective strategiesContinue reading “Teaching Reading Effectively – The Method”
Part 2 – Seeing the Forest Through the Trees One acorn started it all. Now we have a forest of oaks and still a long way to go. When Michael Maloney founded Quinte Learning Centre in Belleville, Ontario with one small classroom, one desk, one blackboard, and a single student in 1978, he had no grand vision of the future. Instead, he had aContinue reading “Part 2 – Seeing the Forest Through the Trees”
Part 1 – One small Acorn, One Mighty Oak Serendipity can be a wonderful thing. Serendipity happened one September afternoon in 1975 in a meet and greet for new hires at the local Board of Education in Belleville, Ontario, Canada. Two behavioural psychologists, newly hired by the Board introduced themselves to one another. One, Eric Christian Haughton, formerly of York University, was one ofContinue reading “Part 1 – One small Acorn, One Mighty Oak”
