I recently attended the National Family Literacy Conference in San Antonio, Texas. It was a wonderful conference and I was able to meet people who help to improve literacy for people from all walks of life. I talked to people would work with K-3rd grade students learning to read for the first time. Using Discover Intensive Phonics (ages 4-9) is a great supplement to a basal reading program and works great as a Response to Intervention Program (RTI) for the mainstream, Special Education and Tier III programs. I also met many people working with Adults in a family setting. Many family literacy programs have resources for the children as well as their parents. I was able to explain that the beauty of our program is that the same "method" is taught in both the version for children as it is for adults, but the delivery of the method for children has more games and the one for adult is on a more mature level even though they are learning the basics. The child and parent become unified in their quest to improve their decoding skills.
At the booth we have a sign that tests a personal ability to explain a spelling rule. "Why does cat start with a 'c' and kitten start with 'k'?" Click on my video to find out the answer! Feel free to post your comments below!
Than you for those of you who attended our presentation on "Decoding Strategies For Developing Literacy". Here is the link to the Online Workshop where you can learn decoding strategies to use in your classroom. We had a great turn out this year. It was so excited to showcase our new Reading Horizons v5 products. Administrations, Reading Specialists and Special Education teachers are definitely impressed with the improvements and changes!