Helping Your Child Learn to Read
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Learning to read is an exciting time for children and their families.
For many parents, helping their child learning to read establishes
a pattern for their involvement in their child's academic education.
PBS - Taking a Reading on Children's Reading
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By Drew B. Saunders, PBS. PBS, in addition to creating great
on-air programs like Sesame Street and Reading Rainbow to help
young readers flourish, also has free online resources for parents
and teachers all about guiding students as they learn to read
and write.
Pre-Readers
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Children can't read? Links to help parents teach reading.
Teaching and Relating to Your Child's Learning Style
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How to teach anyone to read once you have identified their learning style. By Lorraine Peoples, author
of You Can Teach Someone to Read.
Books...What Are You Gonna Do?
Mrs. G's mom took Mrs. G. to get her library card pretty much when she was old enough to walk. And Mrs. G's mom sort of left it that...and went off to read her own books. Mrs. G. was free to work her way through the best and the worst of it.
Getting Beyond the Lord of the Rings
How to parlay an obsession with the Lord of the Rings into an interest in English literature. The reality and the familiarity of the
stories comes from the fact that they speak to universal themes which we all know, even if few of us could articulate them to
ourselves. By Martin Cothran.
Heart of Reading
This is a christian-based parent group designed to provide support for homeschooling families as they move through the
process of teaching a child/children who struggle with various aspects of reading.
Homeschooling with a summer reading book club
Because we wanted to involve everyone, and not just the kids, we decided that the reading challenge should include parents, too.
And just to keep thing interesting, we decided to make it a contest. It's fun, it's easy, and I hope it will inspire your family,
and your homeschool group to do something similar.
How Our Daughters Helped Plan Their Education
When we realized Amanda was reading, Amanda realized her frustration
at not being able to read more complex books didn't have to be
just the way the world works for four-year-olds. Her adults would
help, immediately. She was delighted.
Introduction to Reading Theory
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This 30-minute streaming e-seminar presented by Dr. Richard McCallum
covers the basics of how children and adults learn to read and
the variables that affect their learning processes.
Learning to Read In Our Own Way
What if learning to read does not have to follow the book? What if it does not have to happen 'on time' by age 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 or beyond?
What if learning to read does not have to look like a series of steps from one level to another?
The Love of Reading
The guilt still settles at times when I grab a few minutes during the day to plop down and read. Then my inner voice insists that if I'm encouraging my children to read as nourishment for their minds, I'm entitled to do the same. By Cay Gibson.
Reading 101: What You Should Know
Teachers who know the art and science of teaching reading, though, are able to provide skillful, effective reading instruction, and can help students who need it overcome obstacles to becoming readers.
Reading Coach Online
A great resource for parents and others that are interested in learning how to teach kids to read so they can read to learn!
Reading Together
I read many books as a child, but I think I have enjoyed many of them twice as much when I read them with my children. Homeschooling gave us ample time to read countless books, taking our time to explore the contents, moving along slowly as we digested it, or rushing to find out how the story would unfold in the next chapter.
The Reading Treehouse
Come into The Reading Treehouse, and experience reading in action. You will find encouragement, useful information and free materials inside.
Ten Myths About Learning to Read
There are many beliefs and a great deal of dogma associated with reading acquisition, and people are often reluctant to let go of their beliefs despite contradictory research evidence. Here are 10 of the most popular and most potentially pernicious myths that influence reading education. By Michael Pressley, from his book Reading Instruction That Works.
