by Bob Almack | Mar 20, 2013 | Dyslexia, General, Reading Fluency
I received this email last night from Keith’s mother: “Keith surprised the heck out of himself last night with his speed and accuracy on the CV / VC visual match. He was so proud of getting his speed below 1000 ms.” These faster...
by Bob Almack | Mar 17, 2013 | Dyslexia, General, Importance of Early Literacy, Reading Fluency
In the March 16, 2013 edition of the NY Times, Richard Reeves commends the city of New York’s newest effort to combat teen pregnancy: shame. Quoting directly from Reeve’s opening paragraph: ” New York is deploying a powerful weapon to reduce teen...
by Bob Almack | Mar 16, 2013 | Dyslexia, General, Importance of Early Literacy, Reading Fluency
I received this email from a parent in Wisconsin. Her grade 3 son was a non-reader when I started tutoring him two months ago . He is already one third finished his ITP. Just a quick question I was going to ask and then forgot… Sandy goes to a Montessori school...
by Bob Almack | Mar 15, 2013 | Dyslexia, General, Reading Fluency
Auditory-Visual Match Decoding The second type of phonics and decoding exercise we use is auditory-visual match. Students identify and associate the sounds of written high frequency patterns of consonants and vowels. Students train to a high degree of accuracy and...
by Bob Almack | Mar 13, 2013 | Dyslexia, General, Reading Fluency
Visual Match Decoding For most struggling readers, decoding non-word letter patterns can be very challenging. (Decoding non-word letter patterns is a key recommendation in Dr Sally Shaywitz’s book Overcoming Dyslexia) This is particularly true of students whose...
