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By Natalie Hale
In Early Reading, Education, Personal REVIEW Pages, Reading Resources, Teaching Down syndrome, Uncategorized
Posted February 10, 2021

Personal REVIEW Pages: a Different Tool Altogether!

What do I mean by “pretend reading”? Our clever learners are great “picture-with-sentence” memorizers. You know exactly what I mean: they see a picture, know the sentence that goes with that [...]

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By Natalie Hale
In Early Reading, Education, Personal Pages
Posted February 1, 2021

PERSONAL PAGES: FASTEST READING TOOL EVER

What material can you create in just a few minutes that your learner will love to read, that will help generalize vocabulary, and that does not need a computer or printer? Personal Pages. You’ll [...]

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By Natalie Hale
In Early Reading, Education, Fast Flash, Sight Word Reading, Teaching Down syndrome
Posted February 6, 2020

WHAT’S FREE, FAST, AND TEACHES VOCABULARY LIKE THE BOMB?

WHAT’S FREE, FAST, AND TEACHES VOCABULARY LIKE THE BOMB? If you’ve been reading my blogs or my book “Whole Child Reading,” you know I’m talking about Fast Flash. [...]

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By Natalie Hale
In Down Syndrome Parenting, Early Reading, Education, Teaching Down syndrome, Testing Down syndrome
Posted January 17, 2020

HOW TO HELP LEARNERS AVOID F.O.F. SYNDROME

What’s F.O.F. syndrome? Okay, I made it up. But I’ve seen it countless times, and so have you. FOF syndrome is Fear of Failure. FOF syndrome kicks in when we put something in front of [...]

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By Natalie Hale
In Down Syndrome Reading, Early Reading, Education, Uncategorized
Posted January 3, 2020

CAN YOU START A READING PROGRAM WITH PIZZA AND ICE CREAM?

Well, have you ever tried to start a car without turning on the ignition? Aha! You see my point. Long ago and far away, in 1989 when I taught my son to read, no materials existed that suited his [...]

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By Natalie Hale
In Down Syndrome Reading, Early Reading, Education, Nonverbal readers, Reading in the classroom
Posted December 17, 2019

…BUT IS THERE A MAGIC AGE FOR LEARNING TO READ?

Let me say at the outset, as I wrote in my last blog, that it’s never too late to learn to read if you have Down syndrome! Never. With older nonreaders, we’re even more careful to use [...]

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By Natalie Hale
In Down Syndrome Reading, Early Reading, Education, Older Emergent Readers
Posted December 16, 2019

IS IT EVER TOO LATE TO LEARN TO READ?

My child/teen/adult with DS can’t read yet…is it too late? No, it’s not too late.  My oldest “starting student” with Down syndrome was 33 and legally blind. He is learning to read. This is [...]

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By Natalie Hale
In Down Syndrome Reading, Early Reading, Education, Reading Bundles
Posted September 13, 2019

WORK YOURSELF OUT OF A JOB

I’ve been where you are. When my son Jonathan was 5, I was busy with PT, OT, ST, and a 3-year-old daughter with severe asthma. The idea of me teaching reading to my 5-year-old with Down [...]

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By Natalie Hale
In Down Syndrome Reading, Early Reading, Education, Phonics, Phonics, Sight Word Reading
Posted July 31, 2019

INTO THE BOXING RING: PHONICS vs. WHOLE WORD READING

Speaking of Boxing… At the NDSC Conference in Pittsburg last month, the Phonics Or Whole Word (POWW!) issue attacked me personally in the form of one attendee who voiced the opinion that, [...]

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By Natalie Hale
In Down Syndrome Reading, Early Reading, Education, Fast Flash, SANDWICH STYLE TEACHING, Sight Word Reading
Posted June 16, 2019

YOU WRITE ABOUT “SANDWICH STYLE TEACHING.” WHAT’S THAT?

What’s the Sandwich? “Sandwich Style Teaching” is simple. It means making a reading sandwich where Fast Flash are the two pieces of bread and the middle, the PBJ layer, is the [...]

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