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Systematic Phonics in Early Reading Instruction – It’s Needed
I am constantly amazed by the number of parents who tell me their child is having difficulty learning to read. I get a sense that these parents are concerned but somehow think things will improve as the child matures. This is usually not the case. In this article I want to stress some facts that [...]
Reading and Your Child
Your child is a learner with a distinctive learning style. Language is the foundation for many kinds of learning. Language and reading are soul mates. When united they enable your child to create fantasies, dream, inform and be informed by others and most importantly learn about himself or herself. How humans acquire language is still [...]
Pre Reading Activities to Aid Kids Learning
Following are a number of simple activities you can do with your child to check their phonemic or sound awareness. If you notice any difficulty organise a hearing test. In fact I think all children need to have hearing tests. Many children have ear infections that can affect hearing. Also check eyesight. I have seen [...]
Help Your Child Learn To Read – Stage One
One of the most valuable if not the most valuable invention of all time is that of the Alphabet. The Alphabet is what enables us to grow intellectually because we have access to ideas and words that are written down and not used every day. We think using words. The fewer words we know the [...]
Reading Magic – How You Can Prepare Your Child for School
There is no single approach to teach a struggling reader to read. There is no single commercially produced reading program that will provide everything necessary to produce a confident, fluent reader. There is no online program that will do it completely either. No product sold is a full reading curriculum. The most important factor in [...]
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"How the English Alphabet System Works"
