Often I’ve seen students take me off guard. I’ve been assigned to work with students and told, I was wasting my time trying to teach them how to read because “they’ll never learn to.” It’s an unfair statement. It also Read More …
Tag: Reading
Whole Language vs Phonics Based Instruction
Two very different styles of teaching reading are often at odds with each other. One is code-based emphasis and the other is meaning-based otherwise known as whole language. Whole language is a reading method that has a coherent philosophy of Read More …
Don’t Give Up on Your Readers
I use the Barton Reading & Spelling System to teach students who have dyslexia or symptoms of dyslexia to learn how to read. I have found this system to be very effective and even used it when I taught students with Read More …