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FAMED 85 — Teaching Children to Read

Description

This is the first course in a two-part family education series (FAMED 85 and FAMED 86). In this course, students will learn that many children experience difficulty when learning to read in a classroom setting. However, when these children are tutored by a properly trained adult, most will excel in reading. 11 lessons, 10 assignments (mastery check activities only); no examinations.

Course Content

  1. Learning to Use the Manual
  2. Lesson Readings
  3. Teaching Special Words and Sight Words
  4. Properly Producing Sounds
  5. Teaching Sounds
  6. Blending Part One: Sustaining Sounds in Isolation & Blending Consonants to Vowels
  7. Blending Part Two: Blending Consonant / Vowel Pairs with Consonants
  8. Reviewing Phonetic Words, Sight Words, and Special Vocabulary
  9. Reading Sentences, Words in Context, and Reading for Meaning
  10. Teaching the Silent "e" Rule
  11. Tutoring Practicum

Materials:

CD

Notes:

Students must have access to a CD-ROM player.
course picture

Instructor: Grant Harrison , EdD
Credits: 0
Tuition and Materials : $ 40.00
Paper Manual Fee: $10.00

Registration Codes:


     Paper Course: 5038076
        
     Online Course: 3807601
        

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Textbooks for this Course

Required:
  1. Harrison ,  Teaching Children to Read
    ( 2nd ed. ,  Metra Publishing ,  1999 ,  0-87346-135-5 )
     $ 32.00

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