“I Am Making Available My Special Collection Of 47 Classic Audio Children Stories Along With 4 Child Educational Reports FREE, To The Next 50 Parents Who Take Action Now”

Rich Daniels
Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Re: A FREE Special Offer For Parents Interested In A Child Reading Program

It happens without fail…

No matter how much material and review resources are out there, people will always be a little nervous when purchasing something they want. Especially when it concerns something as important as our child’s education. We just want reassurance that we are making the right choices. I can’t blame them as I’m the same way.

But I do believe that when it comes to our children , we have to let go of our emotional fears and think logically.

Investing in our children’s education is probably the most important thing we can do behind providing love, food,and shelter.

So my job today is to set aside your fears and motivate you to do something now. And to accomplish this, I have decided to do something different. I am giving away, FOR FREE, my special collection of 47 Classic Audio Children Stories along with 4 Child Educational Reports to the next 50 parents who orders A Hooked On Phonics Reading Program

Question From Parent:

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I Am Allowing Only 50 Of These Special Packages To Be Sent Out. No More, No Less

Why? Because I am only one person, and it will take way too much time to authorize and send out every request for this special offer. I have sent this letter out to my list of hundreds of parents. These are parents, like you, who care and want the best for their children so I anticipate that these 50 special offer packages will not last long. In fact there’s a slight chance it may already be too late.

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As a parent who is teaching their child to read, implementing reading comprehension exercises is a very important factor that you should never neglect.  Children as well as adults are very good at giving the appearance of being able to read but when tested for comprehension, we find that very little information has actually been retained.

You can help your child at home by asking simple questions after having your child read a passage from a book aloud.  Let’s suppose that your son or daughter just read a passage about Mary giving an orange to her friend Sue. You can then ask “What kind of fruit did Mary have”? or “Which girl received the orange”?  Your child’s response will tell you whether or not he or she understood the text they were just reading.  Of course this is a very simplified example of a reading comprehension exercise.

There is more to reading comprehension than just asking questions. Aspects that contribute to a child reading for meaning include: synthesizing, visualizing, inference making, information synthesizing and connection creating. Reading comprehension strategies that utilize the above aspects can be the most effective methods to help build cognitive skills and to help your child better understand what they have just read.  So when devising reading program exercises for your child, you can use the following strategies in your approach: You can have them predict the outcome of the story, You can get your child to explain to you the main point of the story, you can try to get your son or daughter to see the story through the eyes of different characters in the story, you can ask them to compare the story they have just read with any other story and ask them for both similarities and differences and you can ask them to visualize an image in their heads after they have just read a descriptive piece of text then have them explain the image.

The following is a video and some other interesting information I found in regards to reading comprehension exercises you can when teaching your child.

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A very large number of reading software for kids were developed, starting from the mid 90′s to the present. The purpose of these educational software packages for children is to provide a solid reading foundation along with being entertaining and fun for the child.

Because of the influence computer gaming has on our youth, integrating education with video gaming concepts has proven to keep a child’s interest level high, therefore absorbing the material more effectively with the added benefit of introducing toddler aged kids to computers. I feel that this is important as computers and the world wide web has become mainstream and the earlier children are introduced to computing, the better off they are.

Of course, like all my recommendations with child reading programs, children will benefit greatly by having adult supervision during the child’s interaction with the reading software. Many parents believe that because most kids reading software are self grading and interactive, there is no need to supervise. I disagree. Anytime a parent bonds with their children is of enormous benefit.

I will be reviewing numerous reading software for kids in this article so make sure to visit this page often.

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Now you don’t have to spend an arm and a leg to teach your child how to read. I have received a lot of emails and comments from concerned parents who have a strong desire to teach their children to read but cannot afford a Hooked On Phonics system.

While I believe “Hooked On Phonics” to be an excellent program, I can understand the reservations parents can have about spending that much money. There’s the rent, food, clothes, and all the other necessities of life that must come first before one can depart with their hard earned money. Even if it’s for a great cause like education.

Taking this matter to heart, I decided to do some research and find the best alternative to Hooked On Phonics without the costly pricetag. I thought it would be easy, but it wasn’t.

There are plenty of reading programs out there, that’s for sure, but I could not find one that was both affordable and fun for the child. I found some that was just as expensive as Hooked On Phonics, I found some that were lower cost but they were just workbooks and a cassette without the fun activities it takes to keep children’s interest level up. Yes, it was hard to find an appropriate program.

Then I came across a company called Click-N-Kids that produces an online, interactive phonics based reading program called Click-N-Read Phonics.

The program does not require a software installation. Accessed over the Internet, ClickN’ READ Phonics is a fun interactive Learn to Read program with 100 lessons for $59.85, which covers the school curriculum for kindergarten to third grade. The lessons take place in a futuristic setting with a “space dog” instructor, which guides students through each exercise, so they require little supervision.

Although ClickN’ READ doesn’t provide extra workbooks or reading books, we feel the quality of the lessons and the price of the program outweigh the need for additional Learn tools.

Features Set:

ClickN’ READ Phonics divides each lesson into four progressive exercises: The Letter Sound Chamber, The Listening Cube, The Reading Room and The Speed Chamber. Each exercise introduces new material and reviews key concepts from previous lessons. After a series of correct responses, the program allows the student to progress to the next exercise of the lesson.

After the introduction of new material in each exercise, ClickN’ READ Phonics becomes interactive. The program prompts students to click on or type correct responses for the remainder of the exercise. The program will instruct the student where letters are located on the keyboard and will provide hints if the student is having trouble during a particular exercise. The lessons may also be repeated at any time.

The Letter Sound Chamber introduces new letters and their sounds or combinations of sounds. Students learn visual recognition and proper pronunciation.

The Listening Cube incorporates the newly introduced letter sounds into words where they appear at the beginning, middle and end of words. The exercise teaches students how the same letter can sound different depending where it appears in a word.

The Reading Room focuses on spelling and sounding out words that contain the newly introduced letter sounds and incorporates the words into sentences. The exercise also teaches how words contribute to the meaning of a sentence.

Finally, students progress to the Speed Chamber to practice the new letter sounds and words at higher speeds. The student must respond with correct answers within a specific amount of time to pass this last level and move on to the next lesson.

After each lesson, a progress report can be printed for the student’s records.

While not necessary, printed workbooks and learning activities that kids can do away from the computer would be a great addition to the program.

Ease of Use:

To access the program, log on with a username and password. (ClickN’ KIDS promises that they will keep your information secure on their server and they will not sell it to other companies). The animated instructor “walks” students through each lesson, so they can use ClickN’ READ Phonics with little supervision.

Ease of Installation/Setup:

ClickN’ READ Phonics does not require installing software and the program is accessed through the ClickN’ KIDS website. You should at least have Windows 98 or Mac OS 8.6 installed on your computer. Students can use ClickN’ READ Phonics from any computer that has access to the Internet. If you’re unsure about a computer’s ability to support the program, the ClickN’ KIDS website also has a link to test the computer’s compatibility.

To sign up for ClickN’ READ Phonics, order on the ClickN’ KIDS website with a credit card. Your order confirmation is immediately emailed to you and the program can be used right away. ClickN’ KIDS also offers a 60-day money back guarantee. They also offer an unlimited time satisfaction guarantee if you complete all 100 lessons are are not satisfied your child learned to read.

Help/Support:

The ClickN’ KIDS website has a list of FAQs and you can contact them by telephone or email. We emailed them with several questions and they answered within 24 hours.

Summary:

ClickN’ READ Phonics is an entertaining program that effectively teaches Kindergarten to 3rd grade reading. The interactive program is accessed through the ClickN’ KIDS website and can be used from any computer that has access to the Internet. The program is designed so kids can use it with little supervision and with 100 lessons, the price is reasonable and any upgrades to the program are free.

The Wilson Reading Program is a research-based reading and writing program created during the 1980′s by Barbara Wilson. She developed her system using her expericences with the Orton-Gillingham reading program while teaching adults with dyslexia and by working with students in an after school program setup by her husband, Ed Wilson.

The Wilson Reading System is designed for students between the grades of 2-12 who have difficulty with reading and spelling. The main goal of the system is to teach students language and word structure through a carefully planned 12 step curriculum beginning with phoneme segmentation and is based on continual evaluation based on the student’s needs.

The first 6 steips provide students with reading and spelling basics to help build a foundation before they progress. Steps seven through 12 focuses on advanced word analysis, comprehension and vocabulary.

The Wilson Reading System is best used in small groups, classroom enviornments as well one on one tutoring sessions. There are two different vocabulary levels: The first one is the “Level A” which is appropriate for elementary, English-as-a-Second-Language and older students with inadequate vocabularies; and the second one is the “Level B” is appropriate for students who are beyond elementary grades with more complex vocabularies.

The scope and sequence emphasizes six common types of syllables in which sounds are taught as they relate to these fundamental syllable types. The first two steps emphasize skills in phonemic segmentation and blending by working with the phonemes of monosyllabic words. By using sound cards, the student learns a “sound-tapping” procedure where he learns to segment sounds within words.

For example, in teaching the word “bat”, three letter-cards representing the three sounds in the word are placed in front of the student. Because a student is taught to say each sound while tapping a different finger to his or her thumb, a student would begin by tapping his index finger to his thumb as he says /b/, followed by tapping the middle finger to his thumb as he says /a/, and then tapping his ring finger to his thumb as he says /t/. Finally, the student says the word as he drags his thumb across the three fingers.

Phonics instruction in the Wilson Reading Program is developmentally appropriate, and the presentation of sounds and syllables is controlled beginning with initial phonemes, short vowels, and double consonants. After students succeed at reading and spelling words with three sounds, they then move on to words with four sounds, then five, and so on.

Polysyllabic words are introduced in the third step when students are taught to segment words into syllables. From the beginning, students learn sight words from lists that correspond with each lesson and write these sight words in their “rules notebook” for review later. Additionally, students read and spell words in this notebook using the tapping or scooping technique to increase accuracy.

In order to build fluency, students are provided opportunities to read and reread the wordlists, sentences and decodable stories. Additionally, there are timed fluency drills for each step of the Wilson Reading System (provided on Wilson Academy online). Students use a penciling technique to develop phrasing and expression. They achieve fluency when they are able to read and spell the words easily and quickly without the use of tapping or guidance from the teacher.
Vocabulary words are introduced in isolation before concentrating on written text. A review of each previous lesson’s vocabulary words is included in all lessons. All text is controlled in order for students to master decoding and encoding.

Comprehension is taught from the beginning through visualization techniques that students use during reading from controlled text. By breaking the story into smaller units, teachers show students how to link words with a picture in their minds using the think aloud procedure. Students then are asked to replay the story in their heads while one student retells the story in detail.

To help develop comprehension skills at a higher level than the students’ decoding work, the teacher also reads aloud other material provided by the students or teacher such as newspapers, magazines, and short stories encouraging the same process of visualization and retelling techniques. Wilson Academy online provides a current event news story each week that is written at both an enriched level (to read to students) and a decodable level (for students to read independently). These stories are other sources of text to use while implementing these comprehension techniques.

The Wilson Reading Program comes in standard, deluxe and starter kits for both students and teachers. The student resources include workbooks, readers, group and class sets while the teacher’s materials include manuals, dictation books, rules, and cards for sounds, words, syllables, groups and videoss.

for more information, you can visit: www.wilsonlanguage.com

For parents who need answers to their child reading questions immediately , the following list of Child Educational Professionals can be a great help. These experts have agreed to help any parents using email or chat. They do charge a very small fee for the use of their time but I find their advice to be invaluable for the amount they charge.

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Phonics is the study of the way in which spellings represent the sounds that make up words. (Phonics is not the study of speech sounds in general — that is phonetics — but only of the ways in which they are represented by conventional spellings.) In reading education, children are taught the sounds of letters and how those letters combine to form words.

The European languages share the Roman alphabet, while many of the Slavic languages use the Cyrillic alphabet. Some European languages have many irregularly pronounced words, which children must memorize. English has hundreds of “spelling words” for children to learn.

When teaching phonics, the schoolchildren are taught the following rules in English pronunciation:

• Each letter is like an animal, which has a name and the sound(s) that it makes. e.g. A cat says “meow”, a G has a name of “Gee” but it says “Gaa” (with the Aa sound suppressed.)

• Each vowel has two sounds: one long and one short. The long sound is the same as its name. The long sounds are in Ape, Eat, Eye, Oh, and You. Their short equivalents are A (a as in at), E (e as in elm), I (i as in it), O (o as in hop), and U (u as in up). (A criticism of this statement would be that in fact every vowel has a third sound — the schwa — the sound of a vowel that is unstressed in an unstressed syllable. The schwa is the most frequent vowel sound in English.

• Each syllable is made by blending the sounds of each component. e.g. reading the word by adding one sound at a time, as in -e, -ed, bed.

• When a single vowel letter is in the middle of a word (or syllable), it usually says its short sound. e.g. “Got”, “Bed”. But there are many exceptions to this rule. See irregular vowels below.

• When a single vowel letter is in the end of a word (or syllable), it usually says its long sound (or its name.) e.g. “Go”, “Be”.

• When two vowels go hand in hand in the same word (or syllable), the first vowel usually says its own name (long sound) and the second vowel stays silent. e.g. “Bake” (Ay sound + silent E), “Goal” (Oh sound + silent A), etc. But there are many exceptions to this rule. See irregular vowels below.
  
  

  Irregular vowels

  Irregular vowels: Many combinations of letters do not following the single or two vowel rules mentioned above. These special combinations and sounds must be memorized. Common examples include, but are not limited to, the following:

• IGH as in “High” and “Sight”

• -NG as in “Sing”, “Song”, “Sung”.

• OST as in “Most” (but not “Lost” or “Cost”!) uses the long sound instead of the usual short sound.

• OW has two different sounds as in “Low” and “Cow”

• ED has three different sounds as in “Lifted”, “Walked”, “Played”.
• OI does not follow the two vowels rule, e.g. “Moist”, “Boil”.

• Double O has two different sounds as in “Book” and “Loose”.

• OUS as in “Nervous”.

• AU as in “Fault”, “Haul”, etc.

• -SION and -TION and -CIAN are pronounced as “shun”.
• OUGH has up to 6 different sounds, such as “Cough”, “tough”, “Thought”, “Through”, “Trough”, “Bough” etc.

Many words do not follow these rules; they are called “sight words”. Sight words must be memorized since the regular rules do not apply. e.g., “The”, “Are”, “You”.

This was the belief before the discovery of the forgotten phonics rules from the 1800s. (See external links below). There are phonics rules for these, and all but a very few words in the English language.

Synthetic phonics is a reading program employed to teach phonics to children when learning to read. This method involves looking at every part of the phonic without necessarily taking into account the blends or meaning (e.g. “s-t-r-e-e-t”).

Analytic phonics involves looking at the phonic blends (e.g. “str-ee-t”).

Some educators who support the phonic method believe that when children master the pronunciation rules, they can read on their own. The children will be able to tie the written words with the spoken English they hear on TV and around the house. (Kids living in non-English-speaking households could have a hard time learning to read this way.)

Educators who oppose teaching phonics believe knowing the sound without knowing the meaning of the word does not work. Some educators do not teach the pronunciation rules; words in books are read aloud in class. The children are supposed to remember how each word sounds one by one as they encounter them in the context of a story or other reading materials. Some “smarter” kids recognize certain pronunciation patterns on their own and can then extrapolate how to read new words; the less fortunate can become illiterate if they fail to do enough reading exercises.

Some school systems, such as California’s, flip-flopped between the two controversial extremes over the years. Nowadays, some schools would do both Phonic and the whole language approach because most educators now recognize that the two systems complement each other and each alone has its drawbacks.

When parents help their children learn to read, they open the door
to a big, exciting world. As a parent, you can begin an endless learning chain
like this: You read to your children, they develop a love of stories and poems,
they want to read on their own, they practice reading, and finally, they read
for their own information or pleasure. When children become readers, their
world is forever wider and richer.

Here are some reading comprehension activities you can do with your child:

• Read aloud to your child: books, newspaper and magazine
  articles, the back of the cereal box, labels on cans, or directions.
  
  
  


• Read poems aloud together to learn about rhythm and repeated
  sounds in language.
  
  
• Point to the words on the page when you read. Move your finger
  from left to right.
  
  


• Listen to your child read homework or favorite stories to you
  every day.
  
  


• Go to the library together and check out books. Be sure to ask
  the librarian for good books or to help you find what you need.
  
  


• Have books, magazines, and papers around the house, and let
  your child see that you like to read, too.
  
  
• Encourage older children to read to younger children.
  
  
  


• Help experienced readers talk and write about what they
  read.

Reading
Activities

Over and Over Again

for young children

1. Pick a story or poem that repeats phrases. “Assign” your child
a phrase to repeat each time you read a new part of the story.

2. Read a short portion of the story or poem, then stop and let
your child repeat the phrase.

3. Encourage your child to act out the story.

For example,
with the story of the “Three Little Pigs:”

Wolf (parent): Little pig, little pig, Let me come in.
Little Pig (child): Not by the hair on my chinny-chin-chin!

Wolf (parent): Then I’ll huff and I’ll puff, and I’ll blow your house in!

Make Sense of Sounds

for beginning readers

1. Look for poems or tongue twisters that repeat sounds and
letters.

2. Point out these sounds and letters, and explain that they often
make the same sound whenever you see them with other letters on the page.

For example:

There once was a fat cat named Matt.
And a black cat who had a
big bat.
The rat put a tack
When the cat turned his back
On the mat
where the black cat sat.

A big blue barrel of big blue blueberries.
Does this shop sell
socks with spots?

Read Together
COLOR="#330099">for more advanced readers

1. Ask your child to read to you.

2. Take turns. You read a paragraph and your child can read the
next one, or take turns reading full pages one after the other. Keep in mind
that your child may be concentrating on how to read, and your reading helps to
keep the story alive.

3. If your child has trouble reading words, you can help in
several ways:

• have your child skip over the word, read the rest of the
  sentence, and ask what word would make sense in the story;


• have your child use what is known about letters and the sounds
  they make to “sound out” the word; or
• supply the word and keep reading: enjoyment is the main
  goal.

Try some of these reading comprehension activities and let me know what your kids think of them. I’m going to be adding some more real soon

There are many phonics reading programs that make huge promises concerning how quickly your child can learn how to read. Watch & read our phonics reading program reviews and decide for yourself which system you should use to teach your child how to read.

While you are searching for the perfect reading program for your child, here are a few terms that you should be familiar with.

• Phonemic Awareness: is knowing the sounds in words. Before children learn that all the letters represent sounds, they must first hear those sounds. Playing songs along with reading out stories that contain rhyme is a very important exercise that helps the child hear the different letter and word sounds. For example, if you read Humpty Dumpty your child will notice that not only does Humpty and Dumpty sound alike but men and again and also wall and fall do to. He or she will then start to realize that words are not randomly constructed but are made of units of sound.
• Phonics: By now, your child has had a lot of fun with nursery rhymes so now it’s time to introduce to them the concept that those sounds can be represented by using squiggly lines on paper and that these lines are called letters. You are using phonics when you show your child that single letters and combination of letters represents sounds. You may begin introducing the concept of phonics by showing your child the first letter and sound of his or her name and then introduce other words which start with the same letter such as Mary, mop, mat, moon etc…
• Sight words: If you were to count the number of words in your average, everyday piece of text, you would find that the same words like “they” and “were”, crop up many, many times. Those words appear so many times that a group of 220 of them make up about 70% of all your average written text. Because of this frequency, your child should know them by sight, hence the term “sight words”.
• Decoding: Breaking up words and reading one bit at a time is called decoding. For example, if your child were reading the word paper, he or she would read it in two parts -PA and PER.
• Encoding:Now, breaking up words and writing one bit at a time is called encoding. When encoding the word “paper“, your child would say the 2 parts (PA and PER) to herself and then proceed to write them down.
• Grammar & Syntax: These terms actually can mean the same thing; knowing how sentences are constructed in a grammatically correct fashion. For example, knowing when to use is and are; understanding the correct usage and order of words; and getting the proper tenses correct.

As soon as your child starts to read, he or she will need to understand how to sound out, recognize the sight words and read around and between the lines in a controlled pattern. Knowing this, you can now search for a phonics reading program that will help your child with:

• Sounding Out
• Getting To Recognize Sight Words Quickly
• Doing Guided Reading (meaning you guide her as she reads)

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