If
you‘d like your children to learn to read and write effortlessly, to be
one of the best readers in their class and to have more
time to play sports, without spending hours doing homework, then
this is the ecourse for you.
As
A Parent With A Child With A Learning Problem I Know How Difficult
It Is To Teach Your Child To Read
Parents!! Are you sick and tired of watching your child struggle with reading and writing?
Read
what some teachers and parents have to say about the ecourse
My daughter was
having serious problems at school. The school wanted her checked
for dyslexia or ADHD or anything they could think of but I
wouldn't have it. I knew she had problems but I didn't want the
school dictating to me. So I went on a hunt for something to help
my daughter. I brought a few books but they didn't do any
good. Then I tried this course and things started to happen. My
child liked the feel of the letters and I think that made the
difference. Now she is on her way and is about to start reading by
herself, but it takes
time.
Mrs. C. Thompson
I got hold of
this course and things started to happen. Kathy loved the
sandpaper letters. After tracing the letters they seemed to stick
in her mind. So it didn't take long, about a term, before
she was near the top of her class. But we put a lot of time in,
and now I'm glad we
did.
Kathy's Mum
I've been
teaching kindergarten kids in China for 4 years and I needed
something to help the kids learn to write and read. I tried a
number of products and books but nothing seemed to work. Then I
found this ecourse and it has been quite amazing. Making the
sandpaper letters was not easy, but after that the kids just loved
tracing the letters. I must admit it helped them to start reading
and writing. They can now make up words after I say the word. And
I don't even work in a Montessori
kindergarten.
mcwillians_bob@yahoo.com
Hi,
I’m Peter Legrove and I was a parent with a BIG problem.

My
eight-year-old daughter, Lisa was having a terrible time at
school.
She
was bottom of her class in reading and writing. And I couldn’t
understand why. After watching my kid struggle I have a fair idea
what it is like to be at the bottom of the class, and it is not
good. Your classmates as well as your friends pick on you.
And
that is not all.
Some
teachers blame the kids at the bottom for all the class problems.
Kids
at the bottom just seem to keep getting hammered further down. Her
teachers were complaining and I was stuck trying to figure out
what to do. Like most kids she had problems with her homework. She
just didn’t like doing it. So I limited her TV and computer game
time to only one hour a night. That didn’t do any good. It
didn’t make any difference.
She
just didn’t get the reading and writing bit.
I
would read to her every night, following the words with my finger
like the experts say, but nothing. I brought a little blackboard
she could write on but still nothing. There was not an inch of
noticeable improvement.
I
got a student teacher in, part time as a tutor because they were
cheaper. Qualified Tutors are usually very expensive. But after a
month, do you know what she said. “We were wasting each
other’s time,” and quit. She just couldn’t get through to my
kid.
The
student was good.
She
knew her stuff. She would come in with a sentence printed out on a
piece of paper. First they would read the sentence together, then
she would cut the sentence up into words.
Now,
my kid had to put the sentence back together, with all the words
in the correct order. After that the tutor would pick a word and
cut the word up into syllables, so my kid could put the word back
together. Then finally the tutor cut the word into letters, so
Lisa could spell the word. My kid then had to try and put the word
back together.
During
the process my kid was learning sentences and words and syllables.
It seemed like a good system and I liked it, but my kid was just
getting nowhere. I thought about getting her tested for dyslexia
or something like that. But once kids get a label it follows them
around for the rest of their lives. And that is not good. So I put
that off until nothing else worked.
After
the tutor walked away I thought about getting another one.
But
I didn’t think that route was working. Next I hit the internet.
I Googled it, yahooed it and Amazoned it. And there was a
multitude of stuff to wade through. I found a few really good
programs, but nothing jumped out at me.
There
were a number of computer based learning models, but I didn’t
really want the kid on the computer. Getting kids off the computer
is more of a problem that getting them on one, so I gave those
ones a miss. I was looking for something I could help her with,
something we could do together.
The
name Montessori kept popping up.
There
were Montessori books, Montessori schools and Montessori teacher
training programs. But I couldn’t find any ‘How to do it’
sort of thing. I’d heard of Montessori schools and I knew
absolutely nothing about them. There were references to sandpaper
letters and phonics, but nothing in depth. Only little
introductions here and there.
Then
I thought I had struck ‘gold.’
I
found the original book “The Montessori Method” translated
from Italian by Anne E George in 1912. The book turned out to be
more of a ‘bronze’ than ‘gold’ as it was very difficult to
understand.
The
English language back at the turn of the 20th century
was very different from today. Also being translated made it all
the more difficult to get the guts of what was going on. But I
waded through it and got the general picture.
And
it was fascinating. I couldn’t understand why this system had
not been adapted into the modern school system of today. It was a
bit more complicated than just sandpaper letters and phonics. But
the old book in the public domain described how to do it.
And
what the book said was sometimes slightly and sometimes completely
different from what I had been reading on the internet. Anyway I
managed to decipher the basic concept of what the book was trying
to say.
The
next thing I did was to try and find sandpaper letters.
So
I Googled it and got the big shock. The first sandpaper letters I
came across were $85 US. And I thought “Wow no wonder this
system isn’t in our schools.” Maybe they were paying a lot for
their Pay Per Clicks. So I kept looking and it got worse. The next
one I found was 81 British pounds, and I thought “Man, I’m
lucky I don’t live in England”
I
had to get better and it did. The sandpaper letters now cost 62
British pounds. I must admit these high priced ones were for
school use and were made out of wood. Next I had a look on ebay
and there they were getting cheaper at US $42 plus shipping.
The
next ones were made out of cardboard and were very reasonable
priced at US $19.95 at
http://www.didax.com/shop/productdetails.cfm/ItemNo/1-520.cfm
but
they were not cursive and that is what I wanted. They were block
letters and I think cursive writing is better than block, even
though it seems cursive is going the way of the dinosaur.
But
I like cursive.
Now
I thought, “What about templates.” I could make my own
sandpaper cursive letter. So it was back to Google
and this time I was lucky. They had free templates, but
the templates were quite small. I suppose I could have played
around on the computer and made them bigger.
Then
I thought why not make my own.
I
could write cursive and my writing is pretty good. At least it was
not like a doctor’s prescription. So I did and they looked
really good.
I
followed The Montessori Method and did the consonants in red and
the vowels in blue. I was very impressed. They weren’t exactly a
work of art, but they looked good.
Making
the sandpaper letters was the easy part.
Now
I had to get the kid away from the TV long enough to start
teaching her to write and read. The
kid liked tracing the sandpaper letters. We had a few teething
problems getting her to say the phonic sound of the letters. But
after
about a week or so she got the hang of it. Then it was onto me
saying the word and she had to make up the word from the
sounds.
She
learnt very fast because the system somehow manages to implant the
letters and sounds on your brain. Anyway to cut a long story short
she went from a ‘D’ student at the bottom of her class to a
‘B’ student, somewhere near the top in less than a
month.
I
was utterly impressed with this Montessori writing and reading
system. A
system that has survived the test of time, and is still helping
children to learn to read and write today.
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This is what the course is all about.
There
is an easy to follow printable section that contains templates for
letters and shapes at the end of the ecourse in section 3.
The
letter and coloring shapes templates. In the ecourse there is a single
letter per page.
Check
out the
Phonic
chart.
Let’s
have a look at what’s in the ecourse.
The Difference Between Your Children’s Success And Failure At
School Depends On One Thing:
Your
Children’s ability to read and write.
Part
1
Teaching
Writing Reading
Chapter 1
Can
a 100-year-old writing and reading system teach your children in the 21st
Century?
Chapter 2
Why
controlled scribbling can prepare your children to write.
Chapter 3
How
to imitate writing without writing the easy way.
Chapter 4
Phonics,
phonics and more phonics but how easy are they to teach.
Chapter
5 Why
learning the alphabet can be dangerous to your children’s reading
ability.
Chapter 6
How
can you turn 26 letters into 44 different sounds.
Chapter 7
Learning
vowels and consonants together helps you create words faster.
Chapter 8
How
tracing letters with your fingertips implants them in your brain.
Chapter 9
What
has tracing sandpaper letters got to do with your brain.
Chapter 10
How
a bunch of cut out alphabet letters can help your child to read.
Chapter 11
Your
children should start to write by themselves.
Chapter 12
It
has finally happened: Reading time.
Chapter 13
What
not to do.
Chapter 14
What
to do now it is all over.
Part 2
Lesson Plans
Putting
it altogether
Lesson 1 The first exercise.
Lesson 2 The first sandpaper letters.
Lesson 3 Introducing consonant sounds.
Lesson 4 Bring on more consonants.
Lesson 5 Time to make up words.
Lesson 6 Continue adding rhyming consonants.
Lessons 7 and 8 More and more consonants.
Lesson 9 Making up words again.
Lesson 10 and 11 We will continue with the letter
‘a’.
Lesson 12 Back to making up words
Lesson 13 A new phonic sound.
Lesson 14 Time to start reading.
Lesson 15 Reading instructions.
Lesson 16 More difficult reading instructions.
Lesson
17 When can Lisa start to write?
Lesson 18 Bring in another vowel.
Lesson 19 Continue with all vowels.
Lesson 20 Use words from Lisa’s favorite hobby.
Part 3
Print out pages
Phonic Chart
Phonic Lists
Shapes
Alphabet letters
What
happens when you start teaching your children?
A
benefit of teaching your own children is it brings the family together.
You
have more of an understanding of where your child is in school, other
than looking at the school report card.
You
can keep track of your child’s writing ability instead of just looking
at his homework and schoolwork.
You
take more control of your child’s schooling therefore you know what is
going on and how well or otherwise your child is doing at school.
You
can take pride in teaching your child instead of complaining about the
school’s ridged way of teaching.
And
after it is all over and your child can read and write, you can proudly
say “I did that. I taught my little girl to read and write”
Phonics
are a lot easier than most people think.
There
are a whole bunch of lesson plans that guide you through the teaching
process, making it easy for you. You go from the first lessons, that get
you set up with the four-step process to more advanced lessons where you
control the content.
After
you have mastered the four-step process you can make up lessons as you
go.
Even
if you have spent too much time on a keyboard and have forgotten how to
write. Don’t worry. There are little arrows on the template letters
showing you which way to write the letter.
Who
shouldn’t get this course for their children?
Now,
our course is not for the parent who wants everything set up for them,
so they can sit back and relax. No! If this is you, this is definitely
not the course for you. With this course you have to get involved,
learn a bit about how to teach.
And
you have to get your hands dirty, so as to speak. You have to make
things.
Simple
things like sandpaper alphabet letters and ordinary letters.
We
supply the templates and you have to do the rest. Like trace the
letters, glue the letter onto the back of a sheet of sandpaper then cut
out the letter. Anyway if your kids are old enough, let them make the
letters. Just have a look at Lesson 2 there are complete instructions on
how to make sandpaper letters.
No,
this course is not for the parent who does not want to get involved in
their children’s education. You have to learn phonics. But we teach
you how to say the letters. It is all laid out for you in Lesson 3.
Is
writing going the way of the dinosaur?
It
seems, with the invasion of the computer and the keyboard, the humble
pencil is now taking a back seat to modern technology. But it doesn’t
have to be that way.
Schools
nowadays, are embracing new technology And why shouldn’t they. It
makes life easier. But we still need to be able to write. A shopping
list, a short love letter in a Valentines Day card, or just writing in
your daily diary. Things you just can’t do on a laptop.
Latest
news from the Washington Post.
See
what the Washington Post has to say about the future of handwriting in
their article
“The Writing Is On The Wall.”
“When
handwritten essays were introduced on the SAT exams for the
class of 2006, just 15
percent of the almost 1.5 million students wrote
their answers in
cursive. The rest? They printed. Block letters.”
But
the part we are interested in is:
A
group of first-graders who could write only 10 to 12 letters per minute.
The
kids were given 15 minutes of handwriting instruction three times a week. After nine weeks, they had doubled their writing speed and their
expressed thoughts were more complex.
Students who remain printers, rather than writing in cursive, need more
time to take notes or
write essays for the SAT.
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/10/AR2006101001475.html
There
it is, the children who write in cursive wrote much faster and had
better thought processes.
If
you want your child to write faster and more beautifully, then this
course is for you. And especially when it comes to the SAT exams, your
children need all the help they can get.
If
they can write faster and more clearly, then that could be the deciding
factor.
With
the Montessori way of teaching reading, the children learn to write as a
bonus. It is something that just happens, because of the way the reading
program is set up.
In
the course we show your children how to write without actually writing.
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