The Elegance of Frequency: Seeing Results with Word Lists As you teach your child the 1000 most common words in English using the Teach Your Children to Read Well program, you will want to know the rate and accuracy at which your child is learning. We will use fluency checks as a measure of his or her performance and of your teaching. After eachContinue reading “The Elegance of Frequency: Seeing Results with Word Lists”
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.
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”
