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Children cant read: How to Teach My Kid to Read

cant ('caint', meaning speech) of 100 generations and of 1,000 years in Ireland: Gaeilge, the Irish language."

LITERACY | SPEECH AND MUSIC -
Music is Langauge, Language is Music

THE SPEECH AND MUSIC CONNECTION

 

How To Teach Reading and Writing English in Elementary School.

 

How to write good english.

Learn what to expect when you need to teach pre literate people.

Learn why English is the most Difficult Language to teach and Learn.

Plato warned that reading would be the downfall of the Oral Tradition and memory.

 

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CHILDRENS LITERATURE: THE ORAL TRADITION

It don't mean a thing if you ain't got that swing . . . ~ Duke Ellington
"Make everything as simple as possible, but no simpler". ~ Albert Einstein

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Teach Nursery rhymes origins and history.
Listen to Curly from the Three Stooges do a better version of the Swinging the Alphabet Song.

NAEP scores in reading and math have not really improved over 30 years, despite billions of dollars spent in K-12 education. Only 30% of 4th graders are proficient readers, 26% proficient in math, 18% proficient in history, and the USA ranks significantly lower than other nations in science and math achievement. 42 million adults in the US are "functionally literate," meaning that they can't read the front page of the newspaper. 6/20/2006 High School Graduation Rates

"A study at Arizona State University has found that students had lower reading comprehension of scrolling online material than they did of print-like versions."

DEFINITION OF DYSLEXIA ONLY MEANS HAVING TROUBLE WITH LANGUAGE

With so many children in school failing tests we need to suppor and harness their creativity when they have a learning difference which is NOT a disability. The Department of Education and the College needs to provide tools in the classes undergrads take who will graduate be able to teach creatively to harness the talent of kids who don't test well or read well, but who can achieve and get by on their wits.

READING INTERVENTION - SPECIALIZED READING

READING IS A PUBLIC HEALTH ISSUE
It is a Human Rights Issue

DYSLEXIA affects Children's Emotional Health and Well Being. Children who can't read will find the achievment gap widening between them and their peers. This gap will never close. Their self esteem plummets. There is a very high likelyhood these kids will drop out of 9th grade. This effects the Economic and Medical Health of the commnity and ultimately every tax payer in America becuase 1 in every 100 persons is in jail!

Dr. Louisa Moats Louisa.Moats@gmail.com
Vice President of the International Dyslexia Association.
Teaching Teachers to Teach Reading includes using Big Muscle Movement see Project Read in Baltimore - Reconstructive Language / Phonics

We can screen kindergardeners. start at four years old to observe language skills, test, diagnose and remediate for these problems which will lessen the severity of dylexia. We can also offer children role models of how well others with this problem were able to achieve in life.

ex: Edison, Churchill, Picass, Einstein, Ali, Schwab, David Bois, Belefonte, Whoopi Goldberg etc.

With so many kids failing tests we need to support and harness the creativity of children who are learning different which is NOT a disability. Teachers need to think creatively to harness the talent and productivity of kids who don't test well. They are achievers who get by on their wits. Dyslexics' brain is wired differently and as a result have special talents like enhanced spatial processing ability good as grasping the big picture when no one else does and thinking outside the box. Perfect for the world of Technology!


Parents need to go into their Schools and request that their kid be tested and evaluated. They need to take notes of everything that happens to hold schools accountable for delivering the help their child needs!!!!

PARENTS MUST ASK FOR MULTI SENSORY STRUCTURED PHONICS AND DIRECT PHONEMIC AWARENESS INSTRUCTION.

 

It is recommended that you establish the connection and importance between the following:

Florida Best Practices

READABILITY TOOLS

 

 

Readability - Quick Assessment Resources

Reading Research
New language circuit discovered in humans' points out that between 5-7 years of age is when people develop reading and writing skills.

Fry Graph for estimating reading ages (grade level) avg. number of sentences per 100 words. Directions for Use of the Fry Readability Graph are below.

National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped

Find Books and Magazines in Braille or Audio:

 

What I Can Do to Comprehend During Reading
Reading Chart for your Classroom

TIP Database The Theory Into Practice Database
TIP is a tool intended to make learning and instructional theory more accessible to educators. The database contains brief summaries of 50 major theories of learning and instruction. These theories can also be accessed by learning domains and concepts.

LITERATURE

 

LITERATURE

ONLINE READING RESOURCES - FOR THE CLASSROOM OR AT HOME
Here are some of the very best resources for both traditional Language Arts and modern communications sites and applications on the web. You will find that they are in a separate class all by themselves and can enrich and even transform your curriculum.

The top 20

  1. Nancy Drew by Carolyn Keene
  2. Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss
  3. Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
  4. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
  5. The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss
  6. The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner
  7. Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
  8. The Poky Little Puppy by Janette Sebring Lowrey
  9. Go, Dog, Go! by P. D. Eastman
  10. Are You My Mother? by P. D. Eastman
  11. Curious George by Margret and H. A. Rey
  12. Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
  13. The Little Engine that Could by Watty Piper and Loren Long
  14. Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown
  15. Dick and Janeby William H. Elson
  16. Ramona Quimby, Age 8 by Beverly Cleary
  17. The Bobbsey Twins by Laura Lee Hope
  18. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
  19. Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
  20. The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein

How to teach writing.

WRITING
KIDS NEED TO TUNE UP

 

 


[ ... "Children are generally ready to be introduced to writing -- and have the necessary motor and visual skills -- sometime during kindergarten. ] In fact, not even every kindergartner is prepared to write, say the experts, all of whom advocate waiting until a student is ready and receptive. "It's easier to learn something when everything is in place," says Newman, who is a perceptual motor therapist, runs movement classes for children and thinks kids need to exercise and move to develop good pre-writing skills. Yet many preschools persist in teaching children to write, and even evaluating that writing, before the students have the skills they need.

[...Remember the progression when we were in elementary school? Printing in kindergarten and/or first grade. Cursive in third. Penmanship grades. Most assignments in elementary school were handwritten. Typing didn't come until sometime in middle or high school. Compare that with today's curriculum. Handwriting in preschool, probably in reaction to the tougher kindergarten curriculum. Then, in second grade, sometimes before they have the basics of handwriting down, children are often introduced to typing. Cursive still comes around third grade, but nowadays it's often a rushed program, with some people arguing that one script should suffice, especially since most kids are going to wind up on computers.
IN 2011 SOME SCHOOLS HAVE STOPPED TEACHING CURSIVE SCRIPT! And forget penmanship; kids are lucky if they are taught to sit properly and form their letters efficiently. In fact, according to the experts, not only do most teachers have no training in handwriting instruction, they don't have the time to teach it thoroughly."] - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48366-2002Aug6.html

LEARN TO WRITE IN HIGH SCHOOL
LIKE YOU WILL ENTER THE MILITARY - PRINT MILITARY PDF EXPLAINS NEED TO KNOW SKILLS

Write in the Middle a workshop for middle school teachers who teach writing, complete with audio files and Best Practices in Teaching Writing.

Writing Tips:
I was once taught that the first sentence of every paragraph should contain the main idea of the paragraph. Then the following sentences should give info about that topic and the last sentence should be the summary of the main idea.
Write about issues you really, really care about like things that frustrate or make you mad. Try to use the simplest-possible language, write like you talk and use personal experience to the maximum. Listen to yourself read it aloud for how it sounds - is it your voice? Is this what you mean to say? Reread and rewrite until it just "sounds right," which seems to have something to do with rhythm and other stuff. Start reading two or three paragraphs before to get a "running start to that will help you shape the next sentence.
Find a way to hook a big idea to something real and immediate and write about whatever is personal to you about that subject. Your life experience - the more the better. My favorite book is Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. (If you haven't read the book and he seems to be talking about himself as someone else, that "someone else" is him before he had some sort of mental breakdown.) There's a really good description by Pirsig the main character about how he helped a student get around writer's block.The discussion of "quality writing" starts around page 190 depending on which book you have.

Writing Rubrics

 

 

Star Teaching / Writing lays out the writing process and also includes K-12 Rubrics and paragraph organizer.

The easiest way to improve writing scores is to use the Fry Formula. The
students must write at grade level. It only takes a few minutes to show the students how to use this formula. Next, you spend an extraordinary amount of time on making sure that the opening sentences don't start with the, a, and, I or any other simple word. They must start with the most important part of the topic sentence by using a phrase.

Directions for Use of the Fry Readability Graph

Essay Writing sites

How to Write Good
:-)

 

 

Listen - Writer William Bourroughs leads a class. "Language is a virus from outer space." and  "Paranoia is just knowing all the facts." ~ Willam S Burroughs, Jr.

Jack Lynch: Guide to Grammar and Style The English Language: A User's Guide. A much-revised and expanded version of this on-line guide, with hundreds of added examples.

English Rules of Thum (sic)

  1. Don't use no double negatives.
  2. Make each pronoun agree with their antecedents.
  3. Join clauses good, like a conjunction should.
  4. About them sentence fragments.
  5. When dangling, watch your participles.
  6. Verbs has got to agree with their subjects.
  7. Just between you and i, case is important.
  8. Don't write run-on sentences when they are hard to read.
  9. Don't use commas, which aren't necessary.
  10. Try to not ever split infinitives.
  11. It is important to use your apostrophe's correctly.
  12. Proofread your writing to see if you any words out.
  13. Correct speling is essential.
  14. A preposition is something you never end a sentence up with.
  15. While a transcendant vocabulary is laudable, one must be eternally careful so that the calculated objective of communication does not become ensconsed in obscurity.
  16. Eschew obfuscation.
  17. "A cat has paws at the end of its claws; a comma has pause at the end of its clause."
  18. "A cat has the paws before the claws, and a comma has the clause before the pause."

Plain Language Humor: How to Write Good
http://www.plainlanguage.gov/examples/humor/writegood.cfm
We don't know where this came from, but some is derived from.William Safire's Rules for Writers - a reminder that rules are meant to be broken. http://www.pointlessart.com/education/Safire.html

1. Always avoid alliteration.
2. Prepositions are not words to end sentences with.
3. Avoid cliches like the plague--they're old hat.
4. Employ the vernacular.
5. Eschew ampersands & abbreviations, etc.
6. Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
7. Parenthetical words however must be enclosed in commas.
8. It is wrong to ever split an infinitive.
9. Contractions aren't necessary.
10. Do not use a foreign word when there is an adequate English quid pro quo.
11. One should never generalize.
12. Eliminate quotations. As Ralph Waldo Emerson once said: "I hate quotations. Tell me what you know."
13. Comparisons are as bad as cliches.
14. Don't be redundant; don't use more words than necessary; it's highly superfluous.
15. It behooves you to avoid archaic expressions.
16. Avoid archaeic spellings too.
17. Understatement is always best.
18. Exaggeration is a billion times worse than understatement.
19. One-word sentences? Eliminate. Always!
20. Analogies in writing are like feathers on a snake.
21. The passive voice should not be used.
22. Go around the barn at high noon to avoid colloquialisms.
23. Don't repeat yourself, or say again what you have said before.
24. Who needs rhetorical questions?
25. Don't use commas, that, are not, necessary.
26. Do not use hyperbole; not one in a million can do it effectively.
27. Never use a big word when a diminutive alternative would suffice.
28. Subject and verb always has to agree.
29. Be more or less specific.
30. Placing a comma between subject and predicate, is not correct.
31. Use youre spell chekker to avoid mispeling and to catch typograhpical errers.
32. Don't repeat yourself, or say again what you have said before.
33. Don't be redundant.
34. Use the apostrophe in it's proper place and omit it when its not needed.
35. Don't never use no double negatives.
36. Poofread carefully to see if you any words out.
37. Hopefully, you will use words correctly, irregardless of how others use them.
38. Eschew obfuscation.
39. No sentence fragments.
40. Don't indulge in sesquipedalian lexicological constructions.
41. A writer must not shift your point of view.
42. Don't overuse exclamation marks!!
43. Place pronouns as close as possible, especially in long sentences, as of 10 or more words, to their antecedents.
44. Writing carefully, dangling participles must be avoided.
45. If any word is improper at the end of a sentence, a linking verb is.
46. Avoid trendy locutions that sound flaky.
47. Everyone should be careful to use a singular pronoun with singular nouns in their writing.
48. Always pick on the correct idiom.
49. The adverb always follows the verb.
50. Take the bull by the hand and avoid mixing metaphors.
51. If you reread your work, you can find on rereading a great deal
of repetition can be by rereading and editing.
52. And always be sure to finish what

Pronunciation in the English language
The author, Prof. H. L. Chace was a professor of French and wrote these in 1940 to to demonstrate that intonation of spoken English is almost as important to the meaning as the words themselves. He is the originator of ANGUISH LANGUISH, for you, your friends, and your family to half pun wit. Example: Fairy Tales Little Red Riding Hood becomes this title Furry Tells Ladle Rat Rotten Hut.


Welcome to the The Little, Brown Compact Handbook and The Little, Brown Compact Handbook with Exercises by Jane E. Aaron.
Students can find material to enrich their learning experience, including video tutorials, exercises, downloads from the textbook, and links to additional resources on the Web. Instructors can make use of all of the resources for students as well as find other teaching-oriented materials.
About the Book - The Writing Process - Writing In and Out of College - Sentences - Punctuation, Spelling, and Mechanics - Research Writing - Documenting in the Disciplines - Usage Flashcards - Instructor Resources

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