In America today, 43 percent of our children fall below grade level in reading. In her meticulously researched and groundbreaking work, Diane McGuinness faults outmoded reading systems for this crisis -- and provides the answers we need to give our children the reading skills they need. Drawing on twenty-five years of cutting-edge research, Dr. McGuinness presents bold new "phoneme awareness" programs that overcome the tremendous shortcomings of other...
Kousuke had never been to my classroom before, so we were both a little nervous as he faced me across the table. As his mother watched from the couch behind him, he answered questions about an animal scene I had placed between us, and I began to get a sense of his ability with English. For a lower elementary grade student, his responses were remarkable- alert, expressive, and confident. I reached into his bag and pulled...
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This book is well worth reading. It gives an accurate insight of why our children carn't read. The phonological difficulties associated with reading and spelling problems can be remediated using sound-to-letter mapping, such as that described in the book. The Allographs programme, written by Dianne McGuinness and mentioned in her book, is an excellent resource to use to teach children to read and spell by sound-to-letter...
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An excellent book, founded in common sense, close observation, and real science. I hope it starts a revolution, and soon. Rita Kramer complains about the occasional tone of the book that the author's "own method is the only way to teach reading". Don't be put off by that. The book does make (and justify) some very strong claims about what any successful method for learning to read and write has to do.This book is the...
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On the very first page of her book, Diane McGuinness profiled a boy whose reading and writing issues were so much like my daughter's that I knew for once I was reading a book that was going to take my concerns seriously. For the last year, I have been searching high and low for a reading program that makes sense. I thought phonics instruction was preferable to making her memorize words, but when I tried to teach it, I ran...
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