Do not use Your Baby Can Read. It is sight reading in the worst way. It wires the brain in the wrong place for proper reading later.
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Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Parents paying to fix school's reading failures
I was listening to the radio the other day when I heard a commercial from two sports heroes who are starting a fund raiser to help children learn to read better. They wouldn't have to jump into the fray to save our children if the universities would teach the teachers to teach right!
This reminded me of a story from my friend, Donna. She went to the junior high with her daughter for a meeting and heard several other mothers talking and complaining that they were having to take their kids to Sylvan Learning Center to bring their reading up to grade level.
One mother was furious because while she was signing her son up at Sylvan, the registrar said, "We see this all the time. We're getting a lot of students in for this problem. Everyone who went to this school district was taught the wrong way, and we're having to fix it." (Ad-libbed)
The mother was so angry to find out that the schools were using a "discovery" type of learning model that didn't believe in teaching spelling or correcting children's spelling. They let the children write whatever they wanted however they wanted. The result was years of illiterate children.
At the time this mother took her son for tutoring, the school district had been using this "innovative" method for a decade and was still using it. (It was probably another failed program from Project Follow Through and the Whole Language fiasco.)
So I'm thinking, if we know what the research-proven best reading method is, phonics, why are schools sticking to failed methods, requiring parents to pay for expensive remedies? Something is definitely wrong here. Must be political. Doesn't purposely-failing our children, year after year, border on evil?
Ciao
http://godfreymethod.com/default.aspx
This reminded me of a story from my friend, Donna. She went to the junior high with her daughter for a meeting and heard several other mothers talking and complaining that they were having to take their kids to Sylvan Learning Center to bring their reading up to grade level.
One mother was furious because while she was signing her son up at Sylvan, the registrar said, "We see this all the time. We're getting a lot of students in for this problem. Everyone who went to this school district was taught the wrong way, and we're having to fix it." (Ad-libbed)
The mother was so angry to find out that the schools were using a "discovery" type of learning model that didn't believe in teaching spelling or correcting children's spelling. They let the children write whatever they wanted however they wanted. The result was years of illiterate children.
At the time this mother took her son for tutoring, the school district had been using this "innovative" method for a decade and was still using it. (It was probably another failed program from Project Follow Through and the Whole Language fiasco.)
So I'm thinking, if we know what the research-proven best reading method is, phonics, why are schools sticking to failed methods, requiring parents to pay for expensive remedies? Something is definitely wrong here. Must be political. Doesn't purposely-failing our children, year after year, border on evil?
Ciao
http://godfreymethod.com/default.aspx
Friday, January 15, 2010
No child left behind means all children left behind
Are you kidding me?! At the end of each school quarter, the teachers in many school districts get a whole or half-day off for "professional development" days. I thought they were learning better teaching skills or something. Not so! Guess what they do on those days?
They all get together and re-evaluate the performance of their class from the last quarter, and readjust the curriculum down to fit the lowest achiever in class.
Are you kidding me?! They are in effect dumbing down the whole class so that one or a few aren't "left behind." Isn't this the same as leaving them all behind? I don't think this was the intention of the No Child Left Behind Law. Why can't the schools just get a tutor or aide or resource person to help the slow kids, and stop holding everyone back?
It makes me just about ready to home-school my kids. First, Project Follow Through ruins over 3 generations of US kids, then NCLB is mis-interpreted to mean that the whole class has to learn on the level of the most-challenged student.
What is the real political goal, here? To have citizens too stupid to vote with any intelligence? To make sure that all our technology jobs keep going to India and China? Do we enjoy talking to a help desk half-way around the world whom we can't understand? Why promote this?
Any parent who cares anything about his/her child's future would not depend on the schools to do the teaching. Even if you can't afford public school or to home-school, you can supplement at home. You can teach your child to read by phonics before kindergarten. You can find math systems to do at home. And you should!
They all get together and re-evaluate the performance of their class from the last quarter, and readjust the curriculum down to fit the lowest achiever in class.
Are you kidding me?! They are in effect dumbing down the whole class so that one or a few aren't "left behind." Isn't this the same as leaving them all behind? I don't think this was the intention of the No Child Left Behind Law. Why can't the schools just get a tutor or aide or resource person to help the slow kids, and stop holding everyone back?
It makes me just about ready to home-school my kids. First, Project Follow Through ruins over 3 generations of US kids, then NCLB is mis-interpreted to mean that the whole class has to learn on the level of the most-challenged student.
What is the real political goal, here? To have citizens too stupid to vote with any intelligence? To make sure that all our technology jobs keep going to India and China? Do we enjoy talking to a help desk half-way around the world whom we can't understand? Why promote this?
Any parent who cares anything about his/her child's future would not depend on the schools to do the teaching. Even if you can't afford public school or to home-school, you can supplement at home. You can teach your child to read by phonics before kindergarten. You can find math systems to do at home. And you should!
Monday, January 11, 2010
How do you get parents to care?
You know, I am absolutely amazed at how hard it is for people to catch the vision of teaching their child to read before kindergarten.
Don't they care about giving their kids the ability to take the opportunities that will come their way?
Don't they care about helping their children become their best selves?
Don't they realize that IQ is only 50% genetic? The other half is the home environment and mental stimulation, especially between the ages of 2-5 years old.
I am doing everything I can to try to help as many kids as possible out there, with the least amount of time and money required by mom and dad.
I wish people could understand how important early reading is! I wish they understood how simple the Godfrey Method is!
I wish I could get them to see the importance of my picture-letters to young minds.
The foster mom in me wants to scoop up all children and help them myself, but they learn best from their own mom and dad.
Where are the proactive, purposeful parents?
Please tell me the homeschoolers aren't the only ones who get it!
Don't they care about giving their kids the ability to take the opportunities that will come their way?
Don't they care about helping their children become their best selves?
Don't they realize that IQ is only 50% genetic? The other half is the home environment and mental stimulation, especially between the ages of 2-5 years old.
I am doing everything I can to try to help as many kids as possible out there, with the least amount of time and money required by mom and dad.
I wish people could understand how important early reading is! I wish they understood how simple the Godfrey Method is!
I wish I could get them to see the importance of my picture-letters to young minds.
The foster mom in me wants to scoop up all children and help them myself, but they learn best from their own mom and dad.
Where are the proactive, purposeful parents?
Please tell me the homeschoolers aren't the only ones who get it!
Friday, December 4, 2009
Why teach your child to read early?
1. Why should parents teach their children to read before kindergarten?
There are many good reasons, such as:
To increase their child’s IQ, by catching the child’s optimum developmental window for reading, as proven by Dr. Glenn Doman and Dr. Michael Merzenich.
This will increase their capacity for learning for the rest of their lives.
To prevent dyslexia and other learning problems, because prevention is much better than remediation.
Yes, gifted children can have hidden learning disabilities.
To reverse the downward educational trend, because parents are their child’s best teacher, as proven by Dr. Glenn Doman and Ms. Glynne Sutcliffe, M.A. Dip. Ed. Only parents doing something at home can reverse the whole language fiasco of public education.
To feel confident and have a good self-esteem at school, by staying ahead of the class.
To create a joyful bedtime routine, giving children the 2 most crucial things they need – parent time and reading skills.
To help children excel in the technology workforce of the future, because reading is the foundation of everything else.
2. Why should parents teach phonics instead of sight-reading?
Phonics wires a child’s brain properly for reading. Phonics is the only proven cure for dyslexia.
Sight-reading limits a child’s vocabulary and can cause reading problems later in life. Sight-reading requires memorizing the shape of about 4,000 words, while phonics only requires memorizing 42 sounds.
Phonics allows a child to decode an unfamiliar word, avoiding embarrassment as an adult.
3. How is the Godfrey Method different?
The Godfrey Method, as found in A Pretty Girl Was Alpha Bette, helps all children learn easier and faster.
And it helps those who are struggling to come up to speed.
TGM connects the letters to their sounds in a child’s mind in a way that makes sense to her.
TGM has two important components: picture-letter phonics cards and the way to teach them properly.
TGM allows children to learn phonics at younger ages.
TGM easily fits into any busy family schedule, and makes a great bedtime routine.
TGM is affordable, and costs less than you’ll spend at the convenience store next week.
TGM purposely does not use electronics or video to teach- since television, video, and radio noise can be precursors to autism and dyslexia in young children. Its book and cards help parents give their children the one-on-one attention they need.
TGM, as found in APGWAB, provides both the phonics tools and the method to teach them properly.
TGM guidelines are easy to understand and fit on only one page.
Anyone can do this. You don’t need a teaching certificate to teach your child to read.
There are many good reasons, such as:
To increase their child’s IQ, by catching the child’s optimum developmental window for reading, as proven by Dr. Glenn Doman and Dr. Michael Merzenich.
This will increase their capacity for learning for the rest of their lives.
To prevent dyslexia and other learning problems, because prevention is much better than remediation.
Yes, gifted children can have hidden learning disabilities.
To reverse the downward educational trend, because parents are their child’s best teacher, as proven by Dr. Glenn Doman and Ms. Glynne Sutcliffe, M.A. Dip. Ed. Only parents doing something at home can reverse the whole language fiasco of public education.
To feel confident and have a good self-esteem at school, by staying ahead of the class.
To create a joyful bedtime routine, giving children the 2 most crucial things they need – parent time and reading skills.
To help children excel in the technology workforce of the future, because reading is the foundation of everything else.
2. Why should parents teach phonics instead of sight-reading?
Phonics wires a child’s brain properly for reading. Phonics is the only proven cure for dyslexia.
Sight-reading limits a child’s vocabulary and can cause reading problems later in life. Sight-reading requires memorizing the shape of about 4,000 words, while phonics only requires memorizing 42 sounds.
Phonics allows a child to decode an unfamiliar word, avoiding embarrassment as an adult.
3. How is the Godfrey Method different?
The Godfrey Method, as found in A Pretty Girl Was Alpha Bette, helps all children learn easier and faster.
And it helps those who are struggling to come up to speed.
TGM connects the letters to their sounds in a child’s mind in a way that makes sense to her.
TGM has two important components: picture-letter phonics cards and the way to teach them properly.
TGM allows children to learn phonics at younger ages.
TGM easily fits into any busy family schedule, and makes a great bedtime routine.
TGM is affordable, and costs less than you’ll spend at the convenience store next week.
TGM purposely does not use electronics or video to teach- since television, video, and radio noise can be precursors to autism and dyslexia in young children. Its book and cards help parents give their children the one-on-one attention they need.
TGM, as found in APGWAB, provides both the phonics tools and the method to teach them properly.
TGM guidelines are easy to understand and fit on only one page.
Anyone can do this. You don’t need a teaching certificate to teach your child to read.
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