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.
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.
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”
Beginning Reading â Teaching Sounds and Symbols As everyone knows, the first major task in teaching someone of any age to read is to teach them how to match the sounds to the symbols used to depict words in any particular written language.
Case Study: 2 Grade Levels in 36 Hours Introduction: Working With Foster Children In March, 2008, my learning centre, QLC Educational Services, was contacted by the Highland Shores CAS to determine if we could assist 11 foster children in their care who were thought to have reading problems and as a result, were behind in school.
