The Elegance of Frequency: Seeing Results for Sounds and Sound Combinations As you teach your child the 63 various sounds and sound combinations in the Teach Your Children to Read Well program, you will want to know the rate and accuracy of your childâs learning.
A Critical, Simple, Almost Never Used, Measure of Academic Performance Whether you are a teacher, homeschooler or therapist, when we teach, we want to know that our teaching has been successful. Whether it is at the kitchen table, in a classroom, a withdrawal special ed program or a therapy session, we want to know that our teaching had an effect, made a difference, was worthContinue reading “A Critical, Simple, Almost Never Used, Measure of Academic Performance”
How Common Human Frequencies Affect Learning: One Concrete Example of a Fundamental Academic Skill Much of what students do in school on a day-to-day basis involves using a pen, marker or pencil. The productivity of students in their use of these tools varies widely. Humans can create 150 to 160 legible characters or numerals per minute. Sometimes students are far from being able to write letters or numbers atContinue reading “How Common Human Frequencies Affect Learning: One Concrete Example of a Fundamental Academic Skill”
Using Frequency to Assess a Student’s Reading Performance How fast do you walk, speak, read or breathe? How long have you been walking, speaking, reading and breathing? And you donât know? â¦. Interesting.
Getting Started in the Right Direction: The Case for Behavioral Objectives If you are going to assume the role of a teacher, whether you are trained as one or not, there are some conditions that you must be able to fulfill if you are to be successful. To ensure that the learning is passed from you to the student, there are several critical components that youContinue reading “Getting Started in the Right Direction: The Case for Behavioral Objectives”
Three Critical Components of Teaching a Lesson Zig Engelmann taught me this as part of my Direct Instruction training after I had been doing it wrong for a number of years. Instruction is a situation in which you need pure communication.
Helping Foster Children Improve their Reading Skills Sometimes it helps to convince people to try something if they know that you have actually done it yourself, so I have decided to tell you one of my many war stories about living in the special needs trenches for the past almost 50 years. Our local Childrenâs Aid Society called my office to seeContinue reading “Helping Foster Children Improve their Reading Skills”
Two Magical Tips for Blending Sounds Into Words As I outlined in my last blog, âThree secrets you must know about teaching phonicsâ, there are both easy and difficult ways to teach someone the relationship between symbols and the sounds they make. By using those three secrets, you are employing the most effective method. I always prefer following the KISS principle. So nowContinue reading “Two Magical Tips for Blending Sounds Into Words”
Three Secrets You Must Know About Teaching Phonics Secret #1: Reduce What the Student Needs to Learn to the Smallest Possible Number of Sounds & Sound Combinations Getting children or adults to attach a sound to a specific symbol or group of symbols is no easy job, but if you do it correctly, you can reduce the task to teaching just 63 soundsContinue reading “Three Secrets You Must Know About Teaching Phonics”
6 Tips for Making Decoding Words Easy Tip #1 – Start with the 1000 Most Common Words There are hundreds of thousands of words in the English language. How do you teach a student all of those words or even most of them? The 1000 most common English Words comprise 85% of everything we read. If you want to be efficient, youContinue reading “6 Tips for Making Decoding Words Easy”
