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Topic: Learning to Read

Related:
  Read    Learning  
  Read the book    Please read  
  Learning Disabilities    Learning Activities  
  Read on to learn    Service Learning  
  Language Learning    Distance Learning  
  Online Learning    Learning Center  

 
 
 Vital Stats
The Brain has inferred the following facts from reading text collected on the topic:
Favorite possession(s):Wheelchair
Most admires:Helen Keller
Intelligence:Retarded
Currently has on their coffee table:Parenting magazine
Dream job(s):Teacher
Education:None,  Elementary school,  Junior High School
Favorite TV show(s):Sesame Street
Favorite body part(s):Brain
Favorite activity(s):Writing stories,  Taking IQ tests
Favorite book(s):"The McGuffey Readers" by William Holmes McGuffey
"American Spelling Book" by Noah Webster
Interest(s):English
Medical note(s):Mentally retarded
Ultimate fantasy(s):Going back to school
Favorite quote(s):"Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater." - Gail Godwin
 
 
 Expert Talk
The Brain has selected interesting relevant sentences from the web. It automatically assigned them to some of our fictitious experts based on their personalities.


Steve Riggins,
Software Deveoper

Learning Goals for grade 2: In Language Arts students learn to read, write, listen, and speak through an integrated program using phonics, literature, oral skills, and process writing.
Learning Goals for grade 3 : In Language Arts students learn to read, write, listen, and speak through an integrated program using phonics, literature, oral skills, and process writing.
Learning Goals: In Language Arts students learn to read, write, listen, and speak through an integrated program using phonics, literature, oral skills, and process writing.
Chogyam Trungpa Gyatso,
Tibetan Monk

Sikhs are expected to make an effort at learning the Gurmukhi script and teaching it to their children in order to read the Guru Granth Sahib in its original written form.
Adam Findley,
Professional Motivator

Children learn to read by reading lots of delightful little books in Spanish while the teachers guide them through dialog and highly supportive interactions which build their confidence and facilitate their learning.
Visit Succeed to Read to learn how children use a combination of three methods of instruction: auditory training, phonics, and whole language when learning to read.
Sasha Prevette,
Kindergarten student

Fun learning tools such as Hooked On Phonics, Leap Pad, and The Phonics Game will help your child learn to read fast.
This year the first grade class has been busy learning to read with the help of the new Saxon Phonics Program.
Two other groups of children in the study had started out learning to read using analytic phonics, but after two terms of this they then started the synthetic phonics programme.
Arthur Dawkins,
Astro-physicist

An educational psychologist reported the result of her study in which she compared the relative merits of the phonics and the whole language methods of learning to read; the results strongly favoured a phonics-first approach to the teaching of reading.
Distance learning programs require students to read many of the materials that traditional universities present in a lecture format.
Learning to read programs focused on developing specific skill areas of reading such as vocabulary, comprehension and rate with a secondary function in the study skills.
 
 
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