SUCCESS STEP 10: A POP QUIZ FOR MOM & DAD
Not to worry, it’s multiple choice, and there are no wrong answers. But your answers will help you be even more successful in teaching your child to read. Multiple Choice: Pick an answer, [...]
SUCCESS STEP 9: On to REAL BOOKS!
Success Step 9 Welcome to Step 9 on our start-to-finish journey of teaching reading to our children. While most school systems haven’t yet caught up with best practice for teaching our [...]
SUCCESS STEP 8: NOW GET THE CLASSROOM ALIGNED WITH 3 (easy) BASICS
The Reading Railroad is Rolling Again! My post-NDSC-conference wrap-up is finally over, and the reading train is moving again. So here we are at Success Step 8. This is what you have going so [...]
By Natalie Hale
Posted SUCCESS STEP 7: THE ONE HABIT YOU CAN’T DO WITHOUT
Ink It In! If your reading plan is going to succeed (hopefully beyond your wildest dreams), you’re going to have to make that Teaching/Learning Time a HABIT. It has to have a place in your [...]
By Natalie Hale
Posted SUCCESS STEP 6: Do You Need Help with Your Personal Books? Here’s a Frozen Idea…
The Road to Excitement Personal books are PRIMO in getting your child hooked on the joy of reading. Primo. There is no faster way to both ramp up their enthusiasm and give them quick reading [...]
By Natalie Hale
Posted SUCCESS STEP 4: Teach Letter Sounds First! Then Letter Names…
Step by Step… If you’re just joining me now, we’re walking together through the whole process of teaching our children with Down syndrome to read, week by week and step by step. [...]
By Natalie Hale
Posted SUCCESS STEP 3: What do you do after Fast Flash and Sandwich Style?
Down the Yellow Brick Reading Road If you’ve been following my blogs on teaching emergent readers with Down syndrome, this one’s for you. Week by week in these blogs, we’re [...]
GET 2 BIRDS WITH 1 TIP: FLUENCY & COMPREHENSION HELP
The Terrier Technique You’re gonna love this simple technique, because it will improve two things: fluency and comprehension. How good can it get? What Did You Say? Simply explained, you [...]
By Natalie Hale
In Down Syndrome Parenting, Down Syndrome Reading, Early Reading, Education, Reading Resources, Teaching Down syndrome
Posted DOWN SYNDROME and THE 11th COMMANDMENT
They Shalt Not… This tidbit was buried in last week’s blog on classroom reading woes, so I decided to pull it out and let it stand on its own. We all know about our offspring’s [...]
By Natalie Hale
In Down Syndrome Parenting, Down Syndrome Reading, Early Reading, Education, Inclusion, Older Emergent Readers, Reading in the classroom
Posted WHAT CAN YOU DO WHEN THE CLASSROOM READING LEVEL DOESN’T MATCH YOUR CHILD’S?
Classroom Woes One mom recently wrote me about her teenage daughter, whose special ed teacher, though a good egg, is teaching reading materials not only ‘way above the teen’s head, [...]