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If you want to know how to help your child develop good reading and writing skills, this book is for you. If you are the parent of a child who struggles in school, this book is for you. If you want the best teaching strategies for helping your child at home — from a master teacher with over half a century of experience – this book is for you.
Specifically for parents A Guide to Helping Your Child at Home provides strategies and an initial teaching plan for a variety of foundational reading and writing skills, and recommended purchasable resources for extending study in each of the areas.
This is a guide written for parents of middle and high school students with elementary skills – some even at a first or second grade level. It can also be used for Home Schooling it covers what you need to know to teach reading and writing skills in pre-school, kindergarten and in the primary grades. Many of the ideas were originally developed as a way of teaching dyslexic children - the Orton-Gillingham Approach. Whether or not your child is dyslexic, these principles ensure success.
Introduction
1: Sounds & Symbols
2: Phonology
3: Motor Component
4: Closed Syllables
5: Digraphs & Blends
6: Silent-e Syllables
7: Vowel Teams
8: R-Controlled Syllables
9: Consonants With Two Sounds
10: Syllable Division
11: Oral Reading Practice
12: Tackling Spelling
13: Paragraph Writing: Exposition
14: The Final Stable Syllable
15: Morphology
16: Grammar & Sentence Structure
Glossary
Recommended Resources
Selected Research
