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We equip parents with the tools they need to teach their children how to read.
“An educated parent is a child’s best educator.”
Teaching Reading
We provide parents with the training, skills, and confidence they need to teach their children how to read.
How schools can harm your children by teaching them to learn like poor readers
The Scientifically Proven Way to Reading Success
What every parent should know about the way children learn to read with confidence, understanding and excellence. These are the steps to reading success that all parents should know.
The Reading D.I.E.T.
(Daily Intensive Enrichment Training)
Reading comprehension is the product of decoding skills and language comprehension:
Decoding x Language comprehension = Reading Comprehension.
To help children become excellent readers and writers, parents and other educators must create the conditions that encourage them to take the following six steps every day which build decoding and language comprehension skills.
The Six Steps To Reading Comprehension Success
Phonemic awareness is the process by which children learn how to distinguish the distinct sounds that we use to create all of the spoken words in our language. Kids learn to recognize these 44 spoken sounds or phonemes by listening interactively to stimulating poems, rhymes, stories, and conversations.
Learn to spell, read, and write phonetically by decoding and translating printed words into spoken sounds.
Learn how to read fluently by rehearsing and imitating the rhythms, words, and syntactic structures or the prosody of decodable stories and complex literature. Students should practice prosody through repetition and performance. They develop excellent stress, tempo, intonation, and rhythm (STIR) through (RAP) rapid, automatic, precise recognition of words and grammatical structures. When students develop a rapid, accurate, precise way to know how to pronounce words and to know what those words might mean, they can focus on reading articulately with passion, confidence, and understanding. Fluency is crucial to comprehension. To read fluently, students must know how to say the words, what the words mean, and how to chunk and read them as grammatical units instead of individual words.
Learn to understand the meanings of the words they hear and read.
Learn to understand how writers organize words and sentences to communicate their ideas.
Learn the background knowledge they need to understand everything they read by actively reading, listening to, and watching substantive and complex content about science, history, and art. Students should build word knowledge, world knowledge, and grammatical knowledge by listening to famous speeches, poems, and stories that communicate great ideas through complex, rhythmic, syntactical structures.
Students RISE daily through Rigorous, Intensive, Systematic Exercises in decoding, spelling, reading, and writing, which require at least an hour of commitment every day.
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