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Title: Reading Reflex: The Foolproof Phono-Graphix Method for Teaching Your Child to Read by Carmen McGuinness, Geoffrey McGuinness ISBN: 0-684-85367-1 Publisher: Fireside Pub. Date: 01 August, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.69 (29 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: A Preschool Teacher has a different view....
Comment: Despite some five-star reviews, I do not think this book is good for reading.
While this book does have a method which could help children to read, the philosophy for it is flawed. There is much misinformation. The book talks about the "failure" of Phonics and Whole Language in teaching schoolchildren how to read. That is just plain wrong.
Phonics ONLY instruction produced children who could read but not understand what they read. But phonics must be a part of effective instruction in reading. Part, not all.
Whole Language instruction did produce excellent when it was used properly; with all of the components used according to the model. But many times a "whole language" program did not fully follow the model and so children could not read well.
Whole Language died a political death but an effective systems, a "Comprehensive Literacy Program," does work. If your school system uses it you'd be better asking your child's teacher for things to do at home to help your child rather than buying this book.
Rating: 5
Summary: Looking for phonics help?
Comment: This workbook is the most logical and efficient way to teach a child to read one step at a time. I've used it and it works. The process simplifies the English language into sounds not just letters so a child can work on sounds that correlate with letter groupings. Did you know that th can be soft as in brea"th"e or hard as in "th"e?
It's a little like taking a linguistics class but whatever works.
Rating: 5
Summary: This book changed our lives
Comment: As an early reader myself, I just assumed my daugher would be just as quick to catch on to reading. When she was 3 we began our phonics instructions with the alphabet. When she was 4, we continued, but we couldn't seem to get past letter recognition. At 5, we tried reading simple books, but it was hit and miss at best. 6, some progress, but we couldn't get past basic consonant-vowel-consonant words. By 7 I was extemely concerned, to say the least.
Someone told me about Reading Reflex and I bought a copy. It seemed that anything this simple and inexpensive couldn't work. And yet, within days of beginning work on seemingly simple games, we saw improvement. Within a month, she was reading away and on grade level. I can't explain what is different about it than other reading approaches, but I know it works.
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Title: How to Increase Your Child's Verbal Intelligence: The Groundbreaking Language Wise Method by Carmen McGuinness, Geoffrey McGuinness ISBN: 0300083203 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: March, 2000 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Why Our Children Can't Read and What We Can Do About It: A Scientific Revolution in Reading by Diane Mcguinness ISBN: 0684853566 Publisher: Free Press Pub. Date: 24 March, 1999 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Phonemic Awareness Activities for Early Reading Success (Grades K-2) by Wiley Blevins, Scholastic Books ISBN: 0590372319 Publisher: International Thomson Publishing Pub. Date: 01 January, 1999 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Overcoming Dyslexia: A New and Complete Science-Based Program for Overcoming Reading Problems at Any Level by M.D. Sally Shaywitz ISBN: 0375400125 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 15 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: How to Teach Math Facts by Susan R. Greenwald ISBN: 1576903516 Publisher: Teacher Created Materials Pub. Date: 01 January, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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