They are going very slowly. I just completed the audio for #2 and have the script written for 3 and 4. I hope to have number 2 done for release on 9 October, and the others the Mondays after that, but with how slow they are going I am not sure when they will actually be produced.

:grouphug: I have no personal experience nice with them, but several local homeschool moms said they have made a bit of money with VIP kid and said they like doing it.

With your username this offer is ironic and inspiring!!

My pulse and blood pressure are also low, salt and caffeine. If exercise seems to help, is there a reason you can't there? Can you do a bit in your room or the bathroom? With long car rides, you can stop more often and walk around a bit. If you talk to the stewardesses you may be able to explain and walk around a bit on the plane without suspicion, or just pretend to go to the bathroom a lot, LOL.

My Syllables class is all planned out, I have taught it several times, all the activities you need ready to print for free, maybe a good option for some people for next semester! I should have a non-beta DVD by then, but you could use the transcript or YouTube red to teach as well. The spelling and word root study and writing activities in the last half of the class make it useful for even students who are reading well, and they can help out the younger kids during the first half. http://www.thephonicspage.org/On%20Reading/syllablesspellsu.html

here is a really good video that both explains place value and teaches it in some common computer place value systems:

:grouphug: Can you pay a teen or someone to take your laundry to a laundromat? Do you have a church? Some ladies to help clean and do laundry might help you out until you can find respite care, it sound like you really need respite care. That is a lot.

I think Stevenson is OG based but designed for students with a low IQ or who have extreme trouble remembering sounds and vocabulary, they use a lot of mnemonics to teach the sounds and make actions and mnemonics for words like boar that are not naturally in a young child’s vocabulary. You should get the green and blue manuals, I think they have things that would help you with your son and I’d be interested to see how you would categorize the program given your experience with Barton.

:grouphug: You do sound like you need a break for your spring break. I have had seasons where I could not do I much as I wanted, and right now I probably will not be able to teach a local class because of health issues and getting ready for the Detroit class.

I would work through my syllables program and follow with a mix of Megawords and Webster's Speller. The arrangement of words in Webster by schwa accent pattern is really helpful for students to understand the pattern of how words divide and schwa, and my syllables program teaches the syllable division rules for students to learn to divide words on their own. I also really like Megawords and have had many remedial students who have had success with it. I no longer own it, I gave it away to a mom who needed it, but I tested it out with some of my remedial students to see how it worked and make sure I could recommend it to people. Both my syllables program and Megawords also explicitly work on spelling. http://www.thephonicspage.org/On%20Reading/syllablesspellsu.html

Some people are naturally better at phonemic awareness than others, but it is also a skill that can be developed, if you read up about sound and sound waves and how sounds combine in the videos I've linked, you'll see that sound waves do not exactly match letter sound approximations but they almost exactly match syllables. Good phonics teaching actually improves phonemic awareness, and you choose good programs, but there is a pre-reading level that most phonics programs don't cover than most children learn naturally but some children need to be taught explicitly. There is more about phonemic awareness and some more sound waves on my dyslexia page: http://www.thephonicspage.org/On%20Reading/dyslexia.html

Perhaps a small phonemic awareness problem masked by high IQ and good memory? I would work on discriminating letter sounds, especially vowel discrimination. Here is a phonemic awareness test: https://www.spelfabet.com.au/2013/02/free-phonological-awareness-test/ For my students who have a small phonemic awareness/sound discrimination, I like the app or website sounds of speech, it shows a side view of your tongue and throat with different sounds, it really helps them to watch it as they look at words with that sound. http://soundsofspeech.uiowa.edu/index.html#english I would also watch all the videos on my pre-reading playlist. While they are geared toward a beginning reader, they are also all applicable for an older student with phonemic awareness problems. The blending and sound chart ones do not just focus on teaching them, but teaching them in the context of sounds and how sounds combine and are made. P and B are consonant pairs made with the mouth and lips and throat in the same position but one is voiced and the other is unvoiced. My charts and Don Potter’s phonovisual chart movies use charts with the letters arranged in sound order, reviewing them in order and watching Don’s videos about them should help if there is a phonemic awareness problem. http://www.thephonicspage.org/On%20Reading/Resources/40LChartsCombined.pdf

If they are ahead or asynchronous, I prefer the letsgolearn tests, computer adaptive, adapts questions and tests up to 12th grade level in language arts and up to 7th grade level in math. Then, they have separate tests for pre-algebra & algebra. https://www.letsgolearn.com/lglsite/assessments/ The ITBS is what I started with, then moved to the letsgolearn test, then we switched to practice ACT test as end of year testing, but we have never lived in a state that required testing, I do for my own info and to have them practice taking tests.

My daughter is enjoying having photoshop. She drew many of the cartoons for my letter sound chart for my phonics materials and is currently designing the cover for a beginning phonics book I am working on for the non-profit! :)

You can support the hashtags and Facebook posts, etc. that come up, thanks!! Plus, I eventually want to come up with a list of good nonprofits in Detroit that people can support if they have money but not time or the ability to travel. I will need local help setting up a list, it is hard to know from outside the area what is reallly good and really helping. Possible slogan/hashtag ideas: Dream with Detroit Dare to dream with Detroit Destination: Detroit Don’t doubt Detroit Something with Destiny in it? (I am a big fan of alliteration.)

I love that frog! I enjoy teaching phonics but not letter sounds, better a frog than me. I would love to be able to buy all 3 DVDs at cost and send to kids in inner city areas in Detroit, Baltimore, etc. I have repeatedly tried via email and phone to get a hold of someone at the company about buying in bulk/ getting donations at cost for a nonprofit, no luck. The company has been bought out and their main thing is now electronic learning,

I just thought of MEP! It's kind of unwieldy, though. Any ideas for using it or something like Ray's Arithmetic and streamlining either of them? For a comparison, I use Blend Phonics as a remedial document, the original Blend Phonics is 14 pages of instruction in small print. My product with excerpts is 6 pages in larger font. http://donpotter.net/pdf/reading_made_easy_with_blen.pdf http://www.thephonicspage.org/On%20Reading/Resources/Blend%20Phonics%20Nonsense%20Words.pdf The original Webster is 100+ pages, my excerpt has 12 pages of instruction.

That looks like a good layout and concept, but I need something free. That and Kahn could be good follow on ideas, though.

Walk and chew gum, keep dialoging here but also come on over to the Detroit thread with some positive ideas! http://forums.welltrainedmind.com/topic/658965-make-a-difference-spring-break-detroit/

We have the expertise here to make one!! I'm not looking for Barton, though, just a good remedial program for an average student with no disabilities who has just not been taught well or has some gaps. But we could make Barton for math, too, two different versions.

I need ideas and help for some kind of modular remedial math program. I would like it similar in format to my syllables spell success program, with a quick teach/do cycle and for multiple ages, but because math is more cumulative it will have to be set up a bit differently. Does Kahn have any offline material? What are people using that is in the public domain along these lines? I don't want to recreate the wheel if there is good stuff out there, but would like to have something for the Spring Break: Detroit campaign. My thoughts: focus on basics, addition/subtraction, then multiplication/division, then fractions/decimals/percents, teach a bit, then a worksheet with each row in progressive difficulty, for example the first row all 1/4 + 2/4, 1/5 + 2/5, second row 1/4 + 1/12, 1/5 + 1+10, each child could do the hardest row they are capable of doing. If we come up with a good format and have everyone who is willing to help take one section, we could have a very useful product that could help a lot of people. I can take all the inputs and make it a page with PDF files on my nonprofit website. ETA: It needs to be free, in the public domain or free to use by a non-profit.

Join me!! I plan to teach a remedial reading class using my Syllables Spell Success DVD program during our local spring break, the week of 26 - 30 March. It is on our calendar and funds set aside to travel. I know no one in Detroit, I picked it because the kids in schools there have the lowest literacy rate of any city in the country, in the single digits. I don't have a place to teach yet, but there are plenty of people who need help. I would like to start a national campaign for people to spend their spring break in Detroit, with people using their area of expertise to help out. Dates: 5 - 8 March: Anyone without a spring break or who can use this week to travel, jump starting the month. 12 - 16 March: Anyone with spring break this week. 19 - 23 March: Anyone with spring break this week. 26 - 30 March: Anyone with spring break this week. 23, 24, 25 March, businesses, non-profits hold a big convention with things to help Detroit. 1 - 6 April: I think this is Detroit's spring break. Slogan, something along the lines of "Detroit to D.C." where people from Detroit go to D.C. and help out D.C. with the best of what has worked with people helping Detroit during March. People with spring break this week could choose either Detroit or D.C. If you can't travel to Detroit, there are plenty of schools in every area that need help, people could help out their local schools during this time. I would also like to develop some kind of free to print remedial math modular program, but will need a lot of help, I still have a lot to do to finish up the DVD for my lessons, I'll start another thread about math ideas. Math ideas here: http://forums.welltrainedmind.com/topic/658967-modular-math-free-to-print-remedial-program/ Add your ideas! FaithManor had a bunch when I was first thinking about this a year ago: http://forums.welltrainedmind.com/topic/624574-ideas-for-detroit/?hl=%2Bdetroit+%2Breading Literacy is more highly correlated with earnings than IQ, so helping with reading can help in multiple areas: http://www.thephonicspage.org/On%20Phonics/profitable.html Add your ideas and thoughts, also any good ideas for slogans or hashtags!

Her newest version of Words is cheaper than the old version on amazon.ca: https://www.amazon.ca/Words-Integrated-Instruction-Structure-2009-11-15/dp/B01FKTH2P6/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1506369148&sr=8-1&keywords=Marcia+Henry+words But it looks like it might be cheaper to buy and ship from Pro-Ed, they say they ship to Canada: http://www.proedinc.com/customer/content.aspx?redid=3

Free word root study and word root bingo: http://www.thephonicspage.org/LangLessons/greeklatinroots.html I would follow on with Marcia Henry’s Words for him, your others can use it later. It is usually cheapest from Pro-Ed, but is also available from Amazon, with shipping to Canada you may want to look around. It is a bit expensive but has a lot of info and a CD to print all the worksheets so it is non consumable. The earlier version with no CD is almost identical content wise, but you have to write out all the exercises yourself. They all can play bingo together with whatever program you choose, it is easy to make your own bingo, just google “free to print bingo make your own,†there are a ton of options out there. I like the 4 x 4 grid where every student has every root every turn. It means there are sometimes ties, but then everyone learns more and stays engaged. ETA: Words integrates spelling and word root study. The sample is from early on, it goes on to multisylable words, the last half is all 8th to 10th grade level work. They say up to 8th grade level but I think the words are a bit higher grade level than that, and some of my remedial middle school students have found the last few worksheets a bit too hard but high schoolers have not had too much trouble. http://www.proedinc.com/customer/productView.aspx?ID=989

Singapore 6 is short and nice, and close enough to MM that you should be able to understand it. It took us less than a year for both, and my daughter took a full year for all the others, my son less than a year for most but even faster than my daughter for Singapore 6.