INDEPENDENCE! FREEDOM! TWO ESSENTIAL SKILLS MAKE THAT POSSIBLE…
This isn’t a “how to teach reading” post. My blog page is chock-full of detailed articles on how to do that. Just use the search box to the right and have fun with it. No, this [...]
By Natalie Hale
In Down Syndrome and Apraxia, Down Syndrome Reading, Down Syndrome Reading with Apraxia, Early Reading, Education, Nonverbal readers
Posted PROVE READING ABILITY WITHOUT SPEECH! Here’s a FREE lotto game to get you started
We can do this We CAN prove our children can read even when they’re non-verbal. I know I’ve talked about this before in past posts, but it bears repeating! Let’s take a fresh [...]
By Natalie Hale
In Down Syndrome Reading, Early Reading, Education, Inclusion, Reading in the classroom, Teaching Down syndrome
Posted LEARNING TO READ: 1-ON-1 PULLOUTS? OR STAY IN THE CLASSROOM?
What is “best practice” now for our kids in inclusive classrooms? Stay in for reading instruction or get pulled out? Here’s valuable input… In or Out? One mother recently [...]
READING HELP! SKIPPING WORDS, USING SMALLER TYPE, READING SILENTLY
Melissa, FB user and proud mom of Violette (8, with Down syndrome), shot me a few questions she thought might be “blog fodder.” She was right. She wrote, “We pulled out the [...]
By Natalie Hale
In Down Syndrome Reading, Early Reading, Education, Fast Flash, Older Emergent Readers, Personal Books
Posted WHAT NOW? MY 10-YR-OLD IS ONLY A “PARTIAL READER”, AND STUCK.
If your child is 10, 12, or 18, and this is the case, I wish we could say that this was unusual, but it’s not. Let’s look at how this happened and fix it. The Causes Chances are high that your [...]
FREEBIE THANKSGIVING BOOK with FLASH CARDS
Yummers! Pass the pumpkin pie, please! I created this book for my students, then thought you might like to have it, too. It’s for emergent readers (Pre-Primer, Primer, etc.) but more advanced [...]
By Natalie Hale
In Down Syndrome Reading, Early Reading, Education, Older Emergent Readers, Personal Books, Reading in the classroom, Teaching Down syndrome
Posted You Want Me to Read WHAT???
If a child or teen hasn’t caught on to reading, is totally uninterested, or shuts down when a parent or a teacher tries to teach reading, we need to ask ourselves: “What are we [...]
By Natalie Hale
In Down Syndrome Reading, Early Reading, Education, Fast Flash, Personal Books, Teaching Down syndrome
Posted How DO you teach reading to a child with Down syndrome? GO IN THROUGH THE HEART
“We go in through the heart and teach to the brain.” “How DO you teach reading to a child with Down syndrome?” asked the Mensan. I was flying across country to give workshops when a [...]
By Natalie Hale
Posted OUR KIDS “TAUGHT” MARIA MONTESSORI HER METHODS
Did you know this? I didn’t. Maria formulated her ingenious teaching methods in 2 years of WORKING EXCLUSIVELY with kids like ours, children with developmental delays. She taught them daily [...]
By Natalie Hale
In Down Syndrome Reading, Early Reading, Education, Phonics, Sight Word Reading, Teaching Down syndrome
Posted MICHAEL ROSEN ON PHONICS: LET’S HEAR IT FROM A CHILDREN’S LAUREATE OF GREAT BRITAIN
Leading The Charge! I so often wave one of my most passionate flags, which reads, “Let’s teach our children that reading is fun, reading is magic, reading is about understanding! [...]