You can give your child the world by opening up his or her possibilities in life with early reading the right way. Anything less borders on neglect.
http://godfreymethod.com/default.aspx
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Monday, January 18, 2010
Prevent dyslexia with easy phonics lesson plan and flash cards
What parent wouldn't want to prevent dyslexia? What parent wouldn't want to raise her child's IQ and increase his capacity to learn for life? What parent wouldn't want to improve her child's self-esteem and confidence in school? What parent wouldn't want to prepare his child for the workforce of the future?
What could help solve all these? Reading early the right way – the Godfrey Method – an innovative phonics system of unique picture-letters, the way for parents to teach them properly, and a colorful story that ties them all together, "A Pretty Girl Was Alpha Bette."
With the Godfrey Method, parents can and should teach their children to read before kindergarten, during that crucial learning window between the ages of 2-5 years old. Early reading by phonics increases a child’s IQ and capacity to learn for the rest of his/her life. Universal preschool is not the answer. The Godfrey Method is simple and effective – something mom and dad can do at home. And the child never forgets.
Parents can also prevent dyslexia. The Godfrey Method allows parents to start phonics younger than other methods – the key to preventing dyslexia. And prevention is much better than remediation.
If a baby can read by sight words now, s/he may have problems reading as an adult and stumble on unfamiliar words. The Godfrey Method teaches young children to read the right way, to easily decode new words by phonics.
Sight reading puts a child behind from the get-go. Phonics has been proven to wire a child’s brain properly for reading. And phonics is the only proven cure for dyslexia.
The Godfrey Method empowers parents to reverse the downward educational trend, put their children at the head of the class, and increase their children’s self-esteem. It helps give their children a foundation for the technology jobs of the future because reading is the core of everything else.
The Godfrey Method fits easily into any busy schedule, giving children the two most crucial things they need: parent time and reading skills. Young children learn best from their parents, who are the solution to our educational problems.
With the Godfrey Method, school children who are struggling come up to speed. Children who are doing fine learn faster and easier. It fixes the top ten wrong ways that schools and parents teach reading.
The benefits for parents~
Early reading develops a child’s imagination. When your child’s imagination is engaged, he is able to face tough things with a creative problem-solving ability. He will be able to think phenomenally well when the day comes that he has to make decisions without you. The tool for that is to open up his world to reading.
There are going to be problems and fights along the parenting way, so I want to tilt the scales in your favor, with your child looking back and saying, ‘I had a great life!’ because of the opportunities you opened up for him with reading early the right way.
When he has to make his own decisions in Jr. High, the magical bullet to get him through may be his ability to think and imagine possibilities, which starts with reading.
I want you to look back when your child is in college, knowing that you gave him what he needed to follow his dreams. You’ll think, ‘I wasn’t perfect, but I gave my child what he needed to be happy in life.’
At his college graduation, your 22-year-old son will be able to hug you and say, ‘Mom, thank you.’
Meg Whitman (former CEO of eBay and candidate for California governor) quote,
“We all hear reports of China and India becoming the next centers for technology and innovation. We’re running behind as a nation in engineering, science, math, and technology... Being near the bottom in education is a tragedy for our kids and a threat to our future. To restore our prosperity and do right by our children, we need to better educate them in the basics… to prepare them to excel in the workforce."
Friday, January 15, 2010
What are the universities teaching the teachers?
Why aren't all school districts using the scientifically-proven best methods for teaching math, reading, and music? The only method that works, at least on the elementary school level, is Direct Instruction. The only direct instruction reading method that works is phonics, not discovery, not whole language, not sight reading. Same with math and music, which have been affected by the same faulty theories as whole language.
So what is the cause of all these bad methods and models still in so many school systems? Well, for 30 years Project Follow through experimented on our school kids in a joint venture between the government and the university professors. Twenty-two teaching theories or models were taught at hundreds of schools for almost 30 years. After the first ten years it was obvious that only one of the models worked - Direct Instruction (with phonics for reading).
In spite of that, we carried on with this faulty experiment for two more decades. Many of the bad teaching models were legislated into state law for schools and are still in operation. This is why so many parents of junior high or middle school kids have to take their children to Sylvan Learning Centers (or similar) to fix what the elementary schools were forced to teach.
It all goes back to the universities. We will never turn around the US educational decline until the universities change what they are teaching the teachers to teach! Those failed models were the brain-children of PhD professors who made their careers off of them, got the backing of curriculum planners and textbook publishers, who all made lots of money together pushing the bad curriculae. And they don't give up their babies very easily, cannot afford to admit failure, and have recruited many followers from the ranks of inexperienced college students.
Thus, the useless theories continue to plague our schools. Some schools have re-caught the vision of phonics and direct instruction, and kudos to them. But many are still damaging our children's futures almost beyond repair. Parents have to take the initiative and fill in the gaps for their children.
Our educational demise will not turn around until the universities stop experimenting on our children and start teaching the teachers to teach the right stuff the right way. Pride prevents this from happening in too many universitites.
One good university is the University of Oregon, which sponsored the only model that worked, and worked well, in Project Follow Through - Direct Instruction by Siegfried Engelmann.
There are some math curriculae that use direct instruction also, such as “Saxon Math,” by John Saxon, available on www.Amazon.com - secondhand marketplace - and eBay. It's important to get the texts, tests and solution manuals of the same publish date, otherwise the problems and solutions don't match. Additionally, the earlier texts are better - more traditional in nature. Later texts sometimes have a bit of "investigating" in them. Just skip that.
Never use "reform" math texts such as Connected Math, Core-Plus, or Investigations in Number, Data, and Space.
Discovery or student-led inquiry may have a place in high school and college- after students have a solid foundation in math and reading (and music)- but never in elementary school, and probably not in middle school, either.
So, the schools can't fix their problems until the universities teach the teachers to teach the right stuff the right way. Then, truly no child will be left behind.
http://godfreymethod.com/default.aspx
So what is the cause of all these bad methods and models still in so many school systems? Well, for 30 years Project Follow through experimented on our school kids in a joint venture between the government and the university professors. Twenty-two teaching theories or models were taught at hundreds of schools for almost 30 years. After the first ten years it was obvious that only one of the models worked - Direct Instruction (with phonics for reading).
In spite of that, we carried on with this faulty experiment for two more decades. Many of the bad teaching models were legislated into state law for schools and are still in operation. This is why so many parents of junior high or middle school kids have to take their children to Sylvan Learning Centers (or similar) to fix what the elementary schools were forced to teach.
It all goes back to the universities. We will never turn around the US educational decline until the universities change what they are teaching the teachers to teach! Those failed models were the brain-children of PhD professors who made their careers off of them, got the backing of curriculum planners and textbook publishers, who all made lots of money together pushing the bad curriculae. And they don't give up their babies very easily, cannot afford to admit failure, and have recruited many followers from the ranks of inexperienced college students.
Thus, the useless theories continue to plague our schools. Some schools have re-caught the vision of phonics and direct instruction, and kudos to them. But many are still damaging our children's futures almost beyond repair. Parents have to take the initiative and fill in the gaps for their children.
Our educational demise will not turn around until the universities stop experimenting on our children and start teaching the teachers to teach the right stuff the right way. Pride prevents this from happening in too many universitites.
One good university is the University of Oregon, which sponsored the only model that worked, and worked well, in Project Follow Through - Direct Instruction by Siegfried Engelmann.
There are some math curriculae that use direct instruction also, such as “Saxon Math,” by John Saxon, available on www.Amazon.com - secondhand marketplace - and eBay. It's important to get the texts, tests and solution manuals of the same publish date, otherwise the problems and solutions don't match. Additionally, the earlier texts are better - more traditional in nature. Later texts sometimes have a bit of "investigating" in them. Just skip that.
Never use "reform" math texts such as Connected Math, Core-Plus, or Investigations in Number, Data, and Space.
Discovery or student-led inquiry may have a place in high school and college- after students have a solid foundation in math and reading (and music)- but never in elementary school, and probably not in middle school, either.
So, the schools can't fix their problems until the universities teach the teachers to teach the right stuff the right way. Then, truly no child will be left behind.
http://godfreymethod.com/default.aspx
Monday, January 11, 2010
Boost your child's imagination and IQ
Why should you teach your child to read before kindergarten with the Godfrey Method?
Early reading develops a child’s imagination. When your child’s imagination is engaged, he is able to face tough things with a creative problem-solving ability. He will be able to think phenomenally well when the day comes that he has to make decisions without you. The tool for that is to open up his world to reading.
There are going to be problems and fights along the parenting way, so I want to tilt the scales in your favor, with your child looking back and saying, ‘I had a great life!’ because of the opportunities you opened up for him with reading early the right way.
When he has to make his own decisions in Jr. High, the magical bullet to get him through may be his ability to think and imagine possibilities, which starts with reading.
I want you to look back when your child is in college, knowing that you gave him what he needed to follow his dreams. You’ll think, ‘I wasn’t perfect, but I gave my child what he needed to be happy in life.’
At his college graduation, your 22-year-old son will be able to hug you and say, ‘Mom, thank you.’
Meg Whitman (former CEO of eBay and candidate for California governor) quote,
“We all hear reports of China and India becoming the next centers for technology and innovation. We’re running behind as a nation in engineering, science, math, and technology... Being near the bottom in education is a tragedy for our kids and a threat to our future. To restore our prosperity and do right by our children, we need to better educate them in the basics… to prepare them to excel in the workforce."
Early reading develops a child’s imagination. When your child’s imagination is engaged, he is able to face tough things with a creative problem-solving ability. He will be able to think phenomenally well when the day comes that he has to make decisions without you. The tool for that is to open up his world to reading.
There are going to be problems and fights along the parenting way, so I want to tilt the scales in your favor, with your child looking back and saying, ‘I had a great life!’ because of the opportunities you opened up for him with reading early the right way.
When he has to make his own decisions in Jr. High, the magical bullet to get him through may be his ability to think and imagine possibilities, which starts with reading.
I want you to look back when your child is in college, knowing that you gave him what he needed to follow his dreams. You’ll think, ‘I wasn’t perfect, but I gave my child what he needed to be happy in life.’
At his college graduation, your 22-year-old son will be able to hug you and say, ‘Mom, thank you.’
Meg Whitman (former CEO of eBay and candidate for California governor) quote,
“We all hear reports of China and India becoming the next centers for technology and innovation. We’re running behind as a nation in engineering, science, math, and technology... Being near the bottom in education is a tragedy for our kids and a threat to our future. To restore our prosperity and do right by our children, we need to better educate them in the basics… to prepare them to excel in the workforce."
Saturday, January 2, 2010
Show your child how fingers are an abacus - fingermath!
Did you know that the abacus developed from the practice of ancient fingermath? Usually teachers discourage students from counting on their fingers, but this is very different. Like an abacus, the right hand represents the ones place and the left hand represents the tens place.
There is a wonderful book, The Complete Book of Fingermath by Edwin M. Lieberthal (1983), that shows parents and children how to add, subtract, multiply, and divide very quickly with their fingers.
Fingermath works for any age group, from preschool to high school and is very effective. Patterns, spatial relationships and time are the foundations of understanding math. Fingermath helps to build such numerical patterns and relationships in the mind, so that what’s on paper makes more sense, quicker. http://www.amazon.com/Complete-Fingermath-Simple-Accurate-Scientific/dp/0070376808/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1249156659&sr=8-1
Any child can become more gifted in math by learning the fingermath method. Purposeful parents would do well to give it a try as early as possible. They should also use every opportunity possible to help their children make patterns and sort things. Music is another great way for children to learn spatial timing, which brain neuron mapping enhances mathematics as well. Counting money supports number patterning as well.
A website with free printable math worksheets is www.edhelper.com
There is a wonderful book, The Complete Book of Fingermath by Edwin M. Lieberthal (1983), that shows parents and children how to add, subtract, multiply, and divide very quickly with their fingers.
Fingermath works for any age group, from preschool to high school and is very effective. Patterns, spatial relationships and time are the foundations of understanding math. Fingermath helps to build such numerical patterns and relationships in the mind, so that what’s on paper makes more sense, quicker. http://www.amazon.com/Complete-Fingermath-Simple-Accurate-Scientific/dp/0070376808/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1249156659&sr=8-1
Any child can become more gifted in math by learning the fingermath method. Purposeful parents would do well to give it a try as early as possible. They should also use every opportunity possible to help their children make patterns and sort things. Music is another great way for children to learn spatial timing, which brain neuron mapping enhances mathematics as well. Counting money supports number patterning as well.
A website with free printable math worksheets is www.edhelper.com
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