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  1. There are snippets from the teacher's manual in the powerpoint slides. If you've taught other phonics programs you should be fine. The manual is nice though, very handy and well organized.
  2. You need Calc based physics like people have said, either AP Calc C or at DE calc based engineering track physics. I don't think they will look that much different for the application, especially since they won't see exam scores until after application anyway.
  3. I just got a UFLI Foundations teachers manual, it’s a really well designed program. You could teach it all without the manual, there are a lot of great resources in their free toolbox. The roll and read games look especially fun and they have a ton of decodable stories, too. There are some resources on their PowerPoints to help teach and some mouth pictures cards for sounds. https://ufli.education.ufl.edu/foundations/toolbox/ They also have a virtual mat. https://ufli.education.ufl.edu/resources/
  4. You should email or call in and tell your girls' story! It's so powerful and motivational!! "We're thinking about making a bonus episode with your reactions to the podcast. If you have thoughts, questions, or a story to share, record a voice memo and email it to us at soldastory@americanpublicmedia.org. You can also leave a voicemail: (612) 888-READ (7323). Adults and children welcome."
  5. The last episode is out. They are looking for reactions, especially from children, for a bonus episode. Sold A Story Website with podcasts, other links
  6. My son was prone to guessing, I didn't teach him single sight word or anything even remotely whole language or balanced literacy. He would guess if there was a sentence to guess from until late 2nd or early 3rd grade, I had to limit his sentence reading until then.
  7. You'd do great! It's really easy with a good program and the background phonics knowledge. I have an article about the how and why of teaching older students, with good programs at the end. Older students are capable of 2+ syllable words early on, there are a lot of free and inexpensive resources that have those type of words while shoring up phonics basics missed in school. It's really random what phonics they know and don't know, best to review everything while working on upper level words. It's harder to undo the guessing habits than to teach the missing phonics, that takes time, nonsense words, and word lists. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/building-good-reading-habits-liz-brown/
  8. It's actually very simple, it takes a lot of work to screw it up. Pick a good phonics program and teach it, don't teach hundreds of sight words as wholes, don't use predictable readers that encourage guessing. There are a ton of great options. Phonics Pathways, OPG to Reading, CLE language Arts, all cheap and good options. Free to print Word Mastery: http://donpotter.net/pdf/word_mastery_typed.pdf There are other good homeschool friendly programs out there, most more expensive, some not. Most homeschool parents know about and choose good programs, ask around for more options. I have 2 pages to help. How to teach a beginner to read: http://thephonicspage.org/On Reading/newstudents.html How to teach blending: http://thephonicspage.org/On Reading/blendingwords.html For those taught with balanced literacy, you need to add nonsense words to help overcome the guessing habit, I have free lessons that include nonsense words and teach phonics to the 12th grade level: http://thephonicspage.org/On Reading/syllablesspellsu.html
  9. Today's episode is worth listening to. The $ spent on programs proven not to work. The indoctrination into the programs is strong, the science is ignored. I always get mad and sad for the children who suffer yet could have easily learned to read if taught well. It's so hard to overcome the guessing habits caused by the sight words and predictable readers, it takes a lot of word lists and nonsense words. It's easier to teach the phonics they are missing than to undo the guessing habits.
  10. The problem is that they get a bit of phonics instruction, but they get sight words, they get predictable readers, so they learn to guess. A bit of phonics but not enough to read well enough to sound out anything. Today's episode is enlightening and infuriating--the amount of taxpayer $ spent on systems that are proven not to work, kept being pushed by the people getting rich off of it. It's hard to undo the guessing habits--I use nonsense words. I have a free program with phonics to the 12th grade level, it is designed for older students who guess, in includes nonsense words. http://thephonicspage.org/On Reading/syllablesspellsu.html Also, many of the students are "functionally literate," they can read some things but guess and are below grade level, many parents do not realize their children are behind. I hand out reading grade level tests to parents with children in schools that use balanced literacy and then point them to my program and other phonics resources. Grade level test: http://www.thephonicspage.org/On Reading/Resources/40L Test.pdf
  11. I would do the overview lesson of my syllables program. It's from Greek, then a schwa, English has a lot of higher level words that schwa unaccented syllables. It explains this and more. http://thephonicspage.org/On Reading/syllablesspellsu.html
  12. I like to go back and forth between decimals and fractions and money and percent. 1/10 10 cents .1 10/100 10%. 1/4 25 cents .25 25/100 25% You can divide any fraction to get a decimal, do that too to compare for a while, long division with a few basic facts.
  13. I would try my syllables lessons, they incorporate spelling rules and patterns and also have nonsense words, nonsense words may help. http://thephonicspage.org/On Reading/syllablesspellsu.html I would focus on spelling only phonetically regular words while you try to figure it out. Spelling Plus has good lists, skip any irregular words for now. You can see the Spelling Plus lists here, the book has them with exceptions and explanations and rules for each list. https://www.susancanthony.com/ws/_pdf/splhnd.pdf Book: https://www.amazon.com/Spelling-Plus-Words-toward-Success/dp/187947820X Perhaps have a reference page of the common words she misses that she can refer to while writing, in alphabetical order. I would compare the reading rate and accuracy of similar words in 36 pt font vs. 12 point font and see if there is a difference as a gross vision screen. I've had students with speech problems that later showed up in their reading and spelling, it may resolve when that is fixed or may be something else; it could still take extra work and repetition after speech remediation but may be easier. I like sounds of speech for seeing the videos of how each sound should be pronounced, the app is cheap: https://soundsofspeech.uiowa.edu/home
  14. How to teach blending, basically, start with easiest to blend sounds, 2 letters or 2 sounds at a time. an, in, me, no, etc. Long vowels may be easier, start with no, Mo, lo, me, ray, lay. The lego picture explanation may help the child understand what's going on with blending. More, explained here: http://thephonicspage.org/On Reading/blendingwords.html How and why to teach the sight words with phonics: http://thephonicspage.org/On Reading/Resources/Sight Words by Sound1.pdf Bookmark form, same as above just cuter, may be too cutesy or may like it more, hard to tell at 8, depends on the chid. http://www.thephonicspage.org/On Reading/Resources/40LSightWordsBookmarks.pdf I print the black and white version and let the child color them in with colored pencil. I would also not assume anything, the schools do a terrible job, could just be ABT, ain't been taught. Go over the sounds across and down on my chart daily. Sounds are arranged for phonemic awareness, not alphabetically, use chart to look up sounds when working on sounding out and spelling sight words. Print out page 6, color in in colored pencil. http://www.thephonicspage.org/On Reading/Resources/40LChartsCombined.pdf Word Mastery starts with the easiest letters to blend. Free to print or Don Potter has an inexpensive book to order. http://donpotter.net/education_pages/WordMastery.html So, you can use my sight word document to figure out the best way to teach the sight words with phonics, go over their spelling and phonics while teaching them, group them by sound. They send them home alphabetically and across grade levels to hide how phonetic they really are. When you teach them, teach all the ones that follow the same pattern, eventually you'll be ahead. Can you get an advanced list for the whole year to show the mom and child that? Or just to say to the child--here, we have the same pattern and you just learned 2 of next weeks words with just a bit of extra work, we're saving time and effort in the long run!!
  15. 🤣 I actually hate cutting things out, too. If my students are old enough, I have them help me cut out the cards for my nonsense word game. I had a 4th grade girl with a younger sibling super excited that I let her use a sliding cutter, she wasn't allowed because her sister wasn't old enough to use one. I was just happy to have help cutting the cards, enthusiastic help is even better. If they're too young I do the cutting in advance. Group classes, adult volunteers help.
  16. You could try abecedarian. They have some good activities for free: http://www.abcdrp.com/freesupportmaterials Also, Leigh print is a marked print that has a common alphabet between German and English. I would start with the German and then move to the English, German is much more regular. http://thephonicspage.org/On Reading/leighprint.html English/German book: https://books.google.com/books?id=qFwBAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR20&lpg=PR20&dq=edwin+leigh+pronouncing+orthography&source=bl&ots=nPqkX18L2I&sig=EamrNdiU6ghDuHKotuT2O2kTjnI&hl=en&ei=t9v9SYjcF4jCtwfk_aWjDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=10#v=onepage&q=edwin leigh pronouncing orthography&f=false After a few months of German only reading, using a German beginning reader book and then the Leigh Print, switch to English with Leigh Print, start with the Hillard primer, the books linked on Internet Archive from my Leigh Print page are good quality scans. You could also try German with a syllabary and then my lessons with a syllabary. Syllabic phonics: https://infogalactic.com/info/Syllabic_phonics My lessons that use syllabic phonics, follow with more 2+ syllable words in Webster, overlearn the syllable tables: http://thephonicspage.org/On Reading/syllablesspellsu.html Webster's Speller full PDF: http://donpotter.net/pdf/websterspellingbookmethod.pdf Book if you want to order instead: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1496153278/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1
  17. I have never used it but supposedly Happy Phonics is colorful and game based: https://www.rainbowresource.com/product/039229/Happy-Phonics.html You could try Blend Phonics, print out each book on different colored paper. It's mastery based and free to print so easy to move fast. You can add in games and teach the words from the whiteboard to make it more fun. http://www.donpotter.net/education_pages/blend_phonics.html Don also has all the words on cards, you can play relay race and other games with them--in a sound them out manner, not as sight words, but as decoding cards. If you want to get through the sight words quickly, here's how to teach them all with phonics, they're 50% of any running text so it does help to learn them if you are teaching them with phonics with a student who learns quickly. They way they teach them in schools as wholes is bad and causes guessing. Cute and colorful bookmark version: http://www.thephonicspage.org/On Reading/Resources/40LSightWordsBookmarks.pdf I also have blending cards that make things more fun, at the end of my sound charts: http://www.thephonicspage.org/On Reading/Resources/40LChartsCombined.pdf Print out the colored versions or use black and white and color in with colored pencils. Run a car or stuffed animal over words while blending to make it more fun. I also have a fun game to get in extra blending practice: http://thephonicspage.org/On Phonics/concentrationgam.html
  18. The flash master app is free and good for math facts. https://flashmaster.com For multiplication, I also like the 60 second sweep. Have one with answers, one without. Keep the with answers face down, look up any facts you can't answer in one second. For example, for 4 you say "two 2's", for 12 you say "two 6's, three 4's." (12 is 2 x 6 and 3 x 4) but, you don't say times so you can say and think them fast. After you master a row, go back and do the whole table up to that row for a few days, then do the next row that has any facts take less than a second to answer. https://sunnybraeavenueelementary.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/60-second-sweep.pdf The thing about the 60 second sweep is that it's also really good for finding factors when they have to do quadratic equations for Algebra. It won't have enough repetition, but after building up facts, Lial's basic college math is good for building up confidence for those behind in math, it has college in the title but is remedial. The 9th edition is good. https://www.amazon.com/Basic-College-Mathematics-Margaret-Lial/dp/0321825535/ref=sr_1_1?crid=P3UGT283SQ68&keywords=basic+college+mathematics+lial&qid=1661292948&sprefix=lial+basic%2Caps%2C126&sr=8-1
  19. Boise State has been excellent for this. They have an online degree tracker of some kind, I forget its name, I assumed it would be standard at other colleges, it seems fairly simple software to make. My daughter started with Psychology, got good advising for that. The first class for any major is an intro to the major, you see all the classes you need to take, they talk about possible minors. The class is an overview of what you'll learn in the major They make you call 3 different people who have jobs in that area and then spend more time on another call with the one you are most interested in to get more details. She figured out that while she liked learning about Psychology, she didn't like any actual job possibilities in the field. Then, she switched to art, originally wanted to get a dual major of illustration and graphic design (a lot of overlap, only a few extra courses, no additional semesters needed--you can see this all in the degree tracker, you can go to a "possibilities" mode and change or add majors and minors.) She didn't like graphic design that much and is now just doing illustration. Good advising for this, too. It also starts with the same thing, she had to call 3 people in the field. My son has known for a bit over a year that he wants to get a Mechanical Engineering Degree, likely at BSU. I called the advisor for Mechanical Engineering and she happily answered a few questions about different classes he should take to be best prepared for the major at BSU. So, not only good advising and degree tracking, but that initial course has helped her and some of her friends figure out early on if a major is a good fit for them or not. The initial advice also includes salary information, one of her friends changed majors after finding out that not only didn't he like what he was planning to do that much, it didn't pay that well. He's now getting a degree in a field that interests him more and pays much better.
  20. I would try AbeCeDarian. They also have some good free resources on their website that may help: http://www.abcdrp.com/freesupportmaterials How long are you spending? My son took a lot of repetition, he did better when we added time to both phonics and spelling but it's most effective in between other subjects. (For spelling, we just had to make it daily, a single chunk of time. His older sister did fine with weekly spelling. He did better with reading once we had several spaced phonics blocks.) For at least one chunk of time, add in my nonsense word game, makes both real and nonsense words, fun way to get in extra practice: http://thephonicspage.org/On Phonics/concentrationgam.html You could also try long vowel first phonics for 10 or 15 minutes a day during a separate chunk, long vowels are easier to blend. Blue workbook, then orange workbook. http://wigowsky.com/school/opencourt/opencourt.htm My remedial students who need extra repetition get excited when they can read 2+ syllable words. After doing long vowels for a bit, you could work on the first 2 syllable long vowel words from Webster's Speller, table 26, page 10 of these Webster Excerpts: http://www.thephonicspage.org/On Reading/Resources/WebsterSpellingBookMethodExcerpts.pdf (For reading, not spelling. The Speller was used to teach both reading and spelling.) My syllables class may eventually be good, teaches phonics to a 12th grade level, free. Start with the basics first, it likely will move too fast for your repetition needs. It does teach how to use the speller, though, you could work through my 1 lesson overview yourself if you're confused about the Speller. http://thephonicspage.org/On Reading/syllablesspellsu.html
  21. My watch and learn lessons: http://thephonicspage.org/Phonics Lsns/phonicslsnslinks.html My interactive lessons, teaching is by video but you need to do some work, the videos make it easy: http://thephonicspage.org/On Reading/syllablesspellsu.html Other things I like for older students linked at end, they why of guessing habits first, only relevant if she got sight words or balanced literacy (used in most schools.) https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/building-good-reading-habits-liz-brown/ I would follow on with reading all the 2+ syllable words in Webster's Speller, my interactive lessons teach how to use it. PDF: http://donpotter.net/pdf/websterspellingbookmethod.pdf Book: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1496153278/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1
  22. I've been a volunteer literacy tutor for 28 years, by my 3rd remedial student I'd decided to homeschool at least the early years to teach reading--and I didn't even have children yet and at the time hardly anyone homeschooled!! Don't beat yourself up, they way they teach masks the problems, there are a lot of parents who don't realize their children are behind until much later. 2nd grade is way early, easy to fix at that point. My older remedial students need a lot more time to overcome years of guessing habits. I personally like Spelling Plus when you add in spelling, it's what I used for ease of use, and I know all the spelling rules after years of teaching phonics!! Any good phonics based spelling program will work, though. Spelling Plus: https://www.amazon.com/Spelling-Plus-Words-toward-Success/dp/187947820X/ref=sr_1_1?crid=68MR94OJAW93&keywords=spelling+plus&qid=1660677256&sprefix=spelling+plus%2Caps%2C141&sr=8-1 She has extra dictation sentences from literature and from the Bible on her website. https://www.susancanthony.com/res/dictlit/-dictlit.html I like that it's one small book for K-6 spelling. It also focuses on the most common 1,000 words, which are 90% of any running text.
  23. I would prioritize phonics. I have free remedial lessons that teach phonics to a 12th grade level, they are specifically designed for older students who got taught balanced literacy in school. The nonsense words help stop the guessing habits. I would do daily nonsense words and read all assignments until guessing stops. You can do nonsense words with the lists, a minute a day, or my game, takes longer with the game, 10 minutes a day, but more fun. http://thephonicspage.org/On Reading/syllablesspellsu.html Game: http://thephonicspage.org/On Phonics/concentrationgam.html I've had K and 1st grade students work through the lessons, the younger students just need a bit more help with the last several lessons, not a problem if you're doing it one on one, and by 2nd grade should be fine although beginning of year 2nd grader will likely need extra help when you get to 3+ syllable words. Work on one syllable at a time, then on putting it all together.
  24. I would screen out reading basics with my nonsense word test and the MWIA and my 40L reading grade level test, linked at the bottom of my syllables page: http://thephonicspage.org/On Reading/syllablesspellsu.html If it's just comprehension due to focus, I would do a few sentences at a time and summarize orally, work up to a paragraph at a time. One of my dyslexic student's father read so slow he had to take notes while reading to keep track of the flow of things (he had gotten a good phonics background, unlike the son, so he read fine, just slow.) His son, once remediated, read almost as slow as dad but at least accurately--not accurate when I started with him after balanced literacy in school. He had a really good memory and did not need to take notes while reading. He even started to read for fun afterward!! He was above grade level in math before remediating and found math even easier afterwards. So, taking notes might help, try written notes and oral summarizing and see what helps. Also, losing focus on small connecting words due to brain fog could be a problem. They can be glossed over but change the meaning of the sentence. Focus on connecting words and see if that helps. (Not all at once, try different things at different times and see what helps.)
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