<http://ednews.org/articles/21503/1/The-Great-Reading-Disaster-Reclaiming-Ou r-Educational-Birthright/Page1.html> The Great Reading Disaster: Reclaiming Our...
Hello: I am still having difficulties with two students (grades 3 and 4) who are incorrectly reading some of the short vowels. Both of them have the most ...
I would NOT recommend using context to get it right. Sometimes I use fingers - Short vowels a - One sound, put three fingers in mouth. e - two fingers...
Mona
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Hi Margo, Try this as it has worked for me for 30+ years and is a "cheat sheet" of sorts for those kids who can't keep the vowels in their memory. On an 8.5 X...
<http://ednews.org/articles/21750/1/Looking-for-real-virtue-in-literature/Pa ge1.html> Looking for real virtue in literature Christian Science Monitor By Diana...
Hi, This article brought to mind the book I have recommended before, Losing Our Language by Sandra Stotsky, Ph.D. It is a scholarly review of how the English...
Carol, Is this the book that you are suggesting: Put Your Mother On the Ceiling: Children's Imagination Games by Robert De Mille ? Deb ... sheet" of sorts for...
My boss has decided she wants me to move on with these kids. I'm not convinced this is the best way to go, but I guess she doesn't want me to spend the ...
This is probably a silly question, but can they discriminate between these vowel sounds when spoken by you? Is there any chance it may be a hearing problem? ...
I don't think it's a hearing problem for either of them. One of them actually said the correct sounds when writing a word and saying each sound, but she ...
By-Pass and Intervention Strategies for Students who Struggle http://pages.us.edu/reading/interventions.htm "...a list of ways to help struggling learners, ...
I can well see that with this range of ideas you can study it for a week. But it is light years away from KISS (Keep it simple, stupid). This seems like...
Mona
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An open book <http://ednews.org/articles/22364/1/An-open-book/Page1.html> John Corcoran taught in the Oceanside Unified School District for 17 years and didn't...
Hi All In the last few months, the UK Medical Research Councils (MRC)Institute of Hearing Research (IHR) (a UK government funded agency and all research has to...
Hi Mona this should be the way forward and not have KISS (Keep it simple, stupid)teachers for what is a very important area of education. If the teachers do...
One of the members of the kindergarten-teachers Yahoo group just mentioned the following web site, i.e., Teacher Book Wizard, that's worth cross-posting: ...
Memory problem 'hits 10% of pupils' <http://ednews.org/articles/23335/1/Memory-problem-039hits-10-of-pupils039/P age1.html> British Broadcasting Corporation...
Hi All, I would absolutely agree with this as this is what I have seen for 37 years. There was a very large study done in Australia where the same type of...
<http://ednews.org/articles/23515/1/Reading-academy-to-open-this-summer/Page 1.html> Reading academy to open this summer Tallahassee Democrat The likelihood of...
<http://ednews.org/articles/23901/1/The-Fleecing-of-Special-Education-in-Tex as/Page1.html> The Fleecing of Special Education in Texas Texas Autism Advocacy ...
<http://ednews.org/articles/23935/1/An-Interview-with-Gary-Huggins-Director- Commission-on-No-Child-Left-Behind-About-Reauthorizing-NCLB/Page1.html> An ...
<http://ednews.org/articles/24379/1/An-On-Going-Conversation-with-Reid-Lyon- -About-Reading-First/Page1.html> An On-Going Conversation with Reid Lyon : About...
Reid Lyon gets very close to discussing the real culprits in the Reading First debacle when he says, "To be honest, Texas was one of those states."? You see,...
