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| The Homeschool Diner's Guide to Homeschooling by Subject Reading Struggles, Reading Remediation and "Catching-Up" by Julie Shepherd knapp, copyright 2006 Helping older children improve their reading skills. If you need help in choosing a remedial reading, phonics, or spelling program for your student, I suggest you look over the choices listed here, then visit the Learning Abled Kids website for even more options. You may also want to join the LearningAbledKids Yahoo Group and ask for advice from the member parents. Many of them are homeschooling children who struggle with reading and have used various products. Handling a Reading Problem: Strategies and Attitudes from the Reading Treehouse -- words of wisdom and ideas for support Mary Johnson's Two Sentence Reading Test -- an easy way to see if your child is reading phonetically or only by sight words (from Don Potter's Education Page) The Reading Treehouse by AdvanceAbility -- free online tips, strategies, and activities for teaching children to read and write, includes phonics, letter direction, etc., a wonderful resource I Read It, but I Don't Get It: Comprehension Strategies for Adolescent Readers by Cris Tovani and Ellin Oliver Keene -- written conversationally, this book addresses the reasons students struggle with reading comprehension and offers strategies and examples to help them get past their difficulties Deeper Reading: Comprehending Challenging Texts (4–12) by Kelly Gallagher -- "...strategies that enable your students to accept the challenge of reading difficult books and move beyond a "first draft" understanding of the text into deeper levels of reading..." 7 Keys to Comprehension: How to Help Your Kids Read It and Get It! by Susan Zimmermann and Chryse Hutchins -- written for both parents and teachers, from a review -- "[this book]...successfully isolated the processes which are used (subconsciously) by natural readers in order to make the leap from phonics to understanding. Each one of these processes receives a full treatment, containing conceptual, demonstrative, and pedagogic angles..." Jacob’s Ladder Reading Comprehension Program Set by Joyce VanTassel-Baska Ed.D. and Tamra Stambaugh, Ph.D..Designed around three "skill ladders", with students move from lower order, concrete thinking skills to higher order, critical thinking skills while reading poetry, myths/fables, and nonfiction. Three levels designed to start at grade 2, but can be begun at any grade level, as needed. Programs to Help Kids Who Struggle and Older Students Spectrum Reading Series by McGraw-Hill -- K - 12 workbooks for reading comprehension and vocabulary building, start with a grade level that seems easy for your student, then move up as skills improve, available at Borders Books, teacher's stores, and thru Amazon.com Reading Horizons at Home -- interactive software for students 10 to adult, improves reading, writing, and spelling skills, starts with vowels sounds, includes spelling rules, based on the Orton-Gillingham method, uses multi-sensory approach that teaches to all learning styles Teaching Phonics and Word Study in the Intermediate Grades by Wiley Blevins for Scholastic -- This is a single resource book that is designed to improve the reading and spelling skills of upper elementary to middle school students (grades 3-8). It helps educators provide a systematic, explicit phonics instruction to help older students develop phonemic awareness, includes linguistics, phonemes, phonograms, and spelling rules. Includes Greek and Latin roots, games, and activities. Lexia Learning: Strategies for Older Students -- interactive software for students 9 and older to improve reading and spelling skills, starts from the very beginning, with basic vowel sounds, but allows students to proceed at their own pace Touch Phonics -- (K - 5) (or 1 - 6 for remediation) a manipulative based multisensory phonics system by Dr. Robin Steed, improves reading and spelling, uses textured plastic letters ("touch units"), teaches phonemic awareness, sound-to-symbol correspondence, segmentation, blending, and substitution Teaching The Right Brain Child by Dianne Craft MA CNHP of Child Diagnostics -- manual, videos, and flashcards (sold separately), a former homeschool mom and special ed teacher helps parents learn how to use Right Brain Strategies to teach their children Spelling, Math, Reading, Phonics, Sight Words, Vocabulary, Following Directions, and Study Skills. Her website is rather bare bones... here is a description of her program. Right Into Reading -- (K - 3) (or for remediation with older students ) a phonics based reading and comprehension program provides phonics instruction, reading comprehension questions and writing practice Letterland -- a complete learn-to-read program published in the UK, uses a story-based phonics system where each letter is associated with a particular character (such as "Clever Cat" for "C"), includes phonetics, pictograms, visual mnemonics, multi-sensory activities -- children sing, act, draw, write, move, speak and build words (the website even includes tips for dressing up as and acting out each letter character), offers early readers (stories about the letter characters), and software programs, useful for different learning styles and special needs "Hi/Lo" Books ("High Interest/Low Reading Level) Tea Leaf Press Fiction for Reluctant Readers -- several series of books for older children who are reading at a lower grade level Orca Currents and Orca Soundings -- two fiction series by Orca Publishers aimed at older students who are reading at a low grade level, stories are especially targeted to boys Bright Apple Products -- Barclay Family Adventures, follow the family on easy-to-read journeys that feature interesting facts about history, geography, and science, interest level 3 - 9 and reading level 3 - 4 High Noon Books by Academic Therapy Products -- several options in "hi/lo" books for older children who read at a low level Classical Comics offers graphic novel (comic book) versions of Shakespeare plays, Frankenstein, and several other books. They offer three versions -- one with the full original text, one with modern text equivalent, and one with simplified text for struggling readers. Related Issues: Trouble with Spelling, too? Is it possible your child has a reading disability? Learn more about Dyslexia at the Diner's Dyslexia and Vision Problems section |