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Learning to Read with Dyslexia – Dyslexic Students Can!

Learning to Read with Dyslexia – Dyslexic Students Can!

Reading does not come naturally to people – it is an activity that must be taught. Dyslexia is a neurological condition  that affects a child’s ability to learn how to read. Auditory dyslexics have difficulty associating sounds with letters and thus have trouble expressing words of text. By contrast, visual dyslexics have trouble developing a site word [...]

Free Reading Skill Building and Exercises

Free Reading Skill Building and Exercises

Many Free Reading Skill Building Exercises are Available Online Many government and NFP organizations provide free tools for parents and teachers looking for resources to use to teach children to read. While nothing can replace a systematic program that covers all of the necessary skills in a comprehensive and professional program, you can find many useful tools [...]

Finding a Reading Tutor for Your Child

Finding a Reading Tutor for Your Child

What to ask the tutor: If it is a commercial tutoring program, check the credentials of the tutors they employ and how they will work with your child. Will the same tutor be working with your child each time? Is the entire session one-on-one with the tutor? Is software used during the session? Do you need to purchase materials that the center offers?

Helping your child learn to read

Helping your child learn to read

Start to read in 1st grade or kindergarten? Many parents are faced with this dilemma. Should I start teaching my child to read in kindergarten or wait for them to learn to read in school? There is no right or wrong answer.  Assess his readiness to read and then decide  . . . read more Is my [...]

Helping your child learn to read

Helping your child learn to read

17 August 2010

Start to read in 1st grade or kindergarten? Many parents are faced with this dilemma. Should I start teaching my child to read in kindergarten or wait for them to learn to read in school? There is no right or wrong answer.  Assess his readiness to read and then decide  . . . read more Is my [...]

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Home School Reading Curriculum Discount

24 August 2010

As you contemplate curriculums, organize materials, and ready your home school “classroom,” Reading Horizons can help you. Reading Horizons home school reading curriculum provides a foundation for young readers as well as reading intervention for older, struggling readers. FREE online trainings are available to help you teach reading skills effectively. This reading program provides proven [...]

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ClickNRead Phonics- Learn to Read With Phonics Software

18 August 2010

Learn to Read Phonics Software ClickNRead software has become a household name in phonics instruction. If you are looking for just one learn to read software program, ClickNRead is it. ClickNRead delivers research based lesson plans but kids enjoy it just like a computer game. Leading experts call it one of the best reading programs available [...]

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Improve Reading Fluency and skills with Reader’s Edge

18 August 2010

Improve Reading Fluency and skills with Reader’s Edge Try for Free! Perfect for all Reading Levels    Only 15 minutes per day! Free Updates for Life! Reader’s Edge – Learn to Read Better and Faster - Try for Free! Read Faster within 30 days – GUARANTEED! Impove Reading Fluency Learn to read better and faster - Learn to read 3-5 times faster with better [...]

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Homeschool Magazine – The Old Schoolhouse

18 August 2010

This homeschool magazine provides you with hundreds of pages of practical and inspirational content. Designed by your fellow homeschoolers, TOS helps you manage with the issues and challenges that home educators confront every day. Each issue of the magazine is filled with new ideas and solutions for your homeschool. Here are just some of the kinds of information content you’ll [...]

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Homeschooling LD Children

18 August 2010

Learning Abled Kids: Homeschooling Children with Learning Differences Children with Asperger’s Syndrome can be intelligent, articulate, and delightful They are typically seen as being a bit ‘odd’. While bright and talkative, a child with Asperger’s doesn’t interact in a socially typical way, and their difficulties can bring challenges to their ability to learn in a traditional school [...]

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Research Support Reading Instruction in Homeschool

18 August 2010

Lots of research has been done over the years to determine what elements should be part of an effective reading program. Obviously, whether a child is home schooled or attends the traditional public school system or a private school, he/she needs to acquire the same set of reading skills as his peers, in order to [...]

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Homeschooling and Learning to Read

18 August 2010

Phonics programs can be introduced into any homeschool environment to provide an effective curriculum for your early reading program. Children vary in the amount of phonics training they require to achieve reading fluency. Programs like Hooked on Phonics offer a direct, systematic approach to teaching reading for most children: Step 1: The first goal is to [...]

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Rosetta Stone Language Software for ESL and ELL Students

18 August 2010

The Importance of Language-Learning Why should we learn a foreign language? After all, the whole world speaks English. Well, there’s some truth in this argument, but only some. There are many reasons for learning a new language: Personal Development By learning a new language, you gain new horizons, but at the same time you reinforce your own identity, [...]

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Teaching English Language Learners To Read (ELL , ESL)

18 August 2010

ELL Program Strategies – Phonics, Vocabulary and Reading Fluency ELL lesson plans for teaching ELLs to read should be drafted with a different learning strategy in mind. Phonics first is still the approach, but an emphasis must be placed on vocabulary as well. Barriers to reading for the young English as a Second Language (ESL) student include phonemes [...]

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What Are Orton-Gillingham Programs?

18 August 2010

Orton Gillingham Reading Program is Most Effective for Dyslexia The Orton-Gillingham approach to reading instruction is language-based, multisensory, structured, sequential, cumulative, cognitive, and flexible. Many mistakenly think it is a newly developed methodology for teaching reading when actually, the Orton-Gillingham approach has been in use since the 1930s. Orton-Gillingham programs are used only in special education [...]

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