Roger, You might find our Sound Foundations material useful. For purposes of reading words with prefixes and suffixes, we first teach them their approximate...
I just recently got a student in my regular ed 3rd grade class that is from Lousiana. Her school is completely gone. When she registered her 3 children, the...
Dear Jody: I was a teacher and a teacher educator for about 45 years. I must say I never have imagined the extent of the problems that the recent hurricanes ...
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Jody, Do you have any informal criterion referenced tests accessible like the Brigance to get some approximate levels for this child? That way, at least you'll...
Janis, the only assessment I've used with this child is the PALS assessment (what the school has for the teachers) & Linda's decoding assessment. I have...
Jody, Have the parent request in writing an evaluation for special ed. due to the fact she was placed in special ed. in another state and the records are...
Janis, I thought of asking the mother to write a letter. Although, that's not a guarantee at our school. A letter was written by a parent last year (about a...
In a message dated 10/1/2005 10:04:22 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, hilsie_b@... writes: Best, Tom Burkard P.S. We will be in Michigan between 19th and...
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Oct 2, 2005 5:14 pm
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Jody, if all regular ed. teachers were like you, we'd have far fewer kids ever make it to special ed. And if we had better special ed. teachers, we'd have more...
The district has 60 calendar days from the requested data. The old law was 60 school days. Send the letter certified returned-receipt requested. No more phone...
What are the facts? If the facts are: a) The child was in special ed in one state. b) The child moved (whether evacuated, crawled, swam, walked - does not...
Eldo
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Oct 3, 2005 3:32 pm
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Hi! Educators Publishing Service, Inc. of Cambridge, Mass has excellant workbooks that I use. Solving Language Difficulties and the MegaWords Program. ...
mary williams
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Oct 4, 2005 10:50 am
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Hilsie I would like to see your book but I am not in Michigan I am in China and am not able to attend your conference. If you have a digital copy that you can ...
Hi, I'm curious to know how this group feels about Reading First? I am a speech-language pathologist and currently a trainer of the 'Foundations' program for...
I think it a common practice throughout the nation to find Guided Reading, Reading Recovery and the likes still being used. All districts in and around Houston...
If the stories are true (RR being defunded thru no RF dollars), rich "enlightened" districts will still have the funds to pay for it out of general budget....
Jimmy, Doris asks a very serious question and you answer it with the statement you did. Oh my ... I just don't know what to think. I will share my opinion...
Hi, Doris, Just curious who the authors of your Foundations program are. We have a Reading Foundations course in my state, and I just wonder if it is the same....
I'm very interested in your materials on prefixes and suffixes for dyslexic children. I live in Iowa but would be interested in looking at the books. Would you...
jim
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Oct 5, 2005 6:19 pm
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Controlled studies on Foundation? Jimmy Kilpatrick Senior Fellow, Alexis de Tocqueville Institution Editor, EducationNews.org <http://www.educationnews.org/> ...
'Foundations' is the new name for what was once called 'Language Essentials for Teachers of Reading and Spelling' (LETRS). The author is Louisa C. Moats....
Well that's interesting. The Sopris West site still calls it LETRS, so I wonder if your state is just calling it Foundations? Not that it matters...it's a...
Jimmy, she's not talking about a reading instructional program. She's talking about training for teachers to understand how to teach reading. They are using...
Thanks Janis for clarifying. I guess I just assume everyone knows. I'm from Michigan and they did just recently change the name to Foundations. I think it...
DEar Doris, I truly believe that REading First is the method to get back on track. As a retired teacher who taught 30 years ago with programs which were...
Terri Iowa is a bit too far for us to go on this trip. At the moment there are a few sample pages from each book on our web-site but after we get back I am...
I failed to proofread in my old age and I was once a good speller. weaker students jamie holiman <jlholiman@...> wrote:DEar Doris, I truly believe that...
I spoke to the counselor a couple of days ago & it got quite heated (w/ the counselor in total agreement with me). I said that I was going to call the SPED...
