Welcome teachers! Do you want to accelerate and improve your students' reading abilities (phonics, phonemic awareness, vocabulary strategies, literal and inferential comprehenesion, independent reading strategies, and metacognitive thinking)? Do you want to teach them study skills, note-taking skills, and test-taking skills and raise their achievement in the content areas? Do you want to accelerate their progress through multisensory teaching by knowing and using their best superlink: learning styles (visual, auditory, tactile, and/or kinesthetic) and brain styles (left brain and/or right brain)? Or do you want help with students who have ADD or ADHD, learning disabilities, reading disabilities, or dyslexia, or who are kinesthetic or tactile learners, or who are in ESL, ESOL or bilingual programs, or who are gifted? Do you want reading and/or learning style/brain style diagnostic testing services or reading instruction services or consultations for students via e-mail or phone? This page is for you. It can be used by classrom teachers (grades pre-K, K-12), college instructors, reading specialists, Title I and remedial reading teachers, at-risk teachers, alternative program instructors, tutors, teacher's aides, and summer-school and after-school teachers for help, advice, and ideas. For more in-depth information on the above topics, you can also visit those pages from the home-page. What This Teacher Page Offers: Section 1) A free teacher seminar Section 2) Free on-line teacher mini-courses on different topics Section 3) FAQ's (we may transfer questions from the "Ask the Reading Expert" page of this site to this page if it pertains to teacher questions that we think will benefit everybody or provide answers to your e-mailed questions here). When answering your questions that you e-mail to us in this section, we will provide a general answer and a recommended book or resource you can order that provides more detailed information. Section 4) Information about personalized consultations, reading instruction, and diagnostic testing services, and books, reading kits, and products. ********************************************************** Section 1: Free Teacher Seminar: Holiday Reading Fun (click below for the free seminar) Section 2): Free On-Line Course: Holiday Take-Home Reading Would you like to help keep your students' reading skills sharp over the holidays? You can download the free parent seminars on this site and send them home with your students. The seminars and free on-line courses: Family Reading Time and Holiday Reading Time provide fun and exciting activities that parents can do at home over the vacation and holidays to keep your students reading! Go to the Free Help for Parents section for these seminars and on-line courses. Section 3) FAQ's (Frequently-Asked Questions) Question: What do I do when I have students with many different reading levels in one class? How can I manage it? Answer: There are several different approaches you can try. One is that you can actually teach a whole class lesson in a particular skill, such as main idea. But when it comes to applying it, then students can do the practice in finding main ideas in materials at their instructional level. Let us suppose you are teaching fifth grade. After teaching the concept of main idea, then the students who are reading at a fifth grade level can work on main idea in a fifth grade book, those at a fourth grade level can work in a fourth grade text, and those at a sixth grade level can work with main idea in a text at that level. In this way, you can include everyone in a major lesson, but let them do the practice in materials they can read at instructional level. Question: I have a student who transferred into my third grade class from aother school who can not read at all. It is almost the middle of the year. What do I do? Answer: The first thing we would do is to diagnose his or her reading problem. We would administer a phonics test, a passage reading test, and a learning style test to get a complete profile of the student's current abilities. While administering these tests we would observe the areas in which the student is having difficulty. Then you can begin to plan on how to remediate the student's difficulties. If there are no other students in the class at the same reading level, then time needs to be scheduled to instruct the child at his or her level, possibly while the other students are doing silent reading, or working in groups or individually. The student will need to receive a mini-lesson in whatever skill is needed each day just as the other students receive instruction at their level. For suggested materials on diagnostic testing and reading instruction, see the Books and Kits page for ideas. E-mail your question to us at readinginstruction@yahoo.com * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Section 4) Information about Consultations, Instruction, and Diagnostic Testing Do you want reading and/or learning style/brain style diagnostic testing services or reading instruction services or consultations for your students via e-mail or phone? You may also order a paid reading diagnostic test and/or learning style/brain style assessment for your students, or a paid consultation about teaching reading and accelerated learning either in person in Naperville, Illinois, or by phone, or correspondence. To order, go to the Consultations and Reading Instruction page, or the Diagnostic Testing page to order. If there is any other area you would like addressed or in which you have questions, e-mail us at readinginstruction@yahoo.com and we would be glad to help you. |