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AMom
, December 31, 2009
Extraordinary. My daughter, aged 8, has been struggling with reading through her first three grades. She has been "diagnosed" with a "languaged-based learning disability." We have spent a small fortune on tutoring, testing, therapy, experts, tutoring and more testing.
A friend showed me this book, a method for teaching reading based on how language is actually *read*--not strategies, ruses, mnemonics, tricks and tips, pictures, or other nouveau baloney, but how words look and how they sound. My daughter picked it up, started on Lesson 1 (way easy, but totally different than any reading lesson she's been offered in our quite good public schools), and has hardly put it down.
She gets it, she loves it, she's succeeding with it, and she's excited.
My friend assures me that, if we use it 15-30 minutes a day, within a couple of months my daughter will be reading right up with the best of readers in her class. Having watch her take to it like a duck to water--or rather like a famished reader to nourishing books--I have no doubt that this will be the case.
Now I am thrown between two intense reactions: anger at how poorly our school's reading program has served her, and sheer bliss that we finally have a way for her to succeed, learn, and enjoy the written word.
If your child, or any child you know, is having reading difficulties, you need this book. A parent can use it easily, and your child will bloom as a reader.
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