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1voteeducational resources- reading games, reading posters, maths games, phonics games, phonics posters, podcasting ideas, ...
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2voteOakland, CA, August 14, 2007—The Fast ForWord® family of products, educational software that accelerates learning by developing the student brain to process more efficiently from Scientific Learning Corp (NASDAQ:SCIL), has received the highest possible rating from the What Works Clearinghouse (WWC), a research unit established by the U.S. Department of Education. Fast ForWord software specifically earned a positive review for its impact on alphabetics, that is, phoneme awareness and phonics, for K-3 students.
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1voteHours are spent doing ineffective drills. Children are bored. Teachers are frustrated restrictive lengthy lessons. School systems are foregoing federal funding to “research-based” curricula. What’s the problem and what’s the solution?
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1voteReading specialists have often pitted phonics against holistic word recognition and whole language approaches in the war over how to teach children to read. However, a new study by researchers at New York University shows that the three reading processes do not conflict, but, rather, work together to determine speed.
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3voteThe Starfall learn-to-read website is offered free as a public service. We also provide writing journals and books at a very low cost that can be used with the website or separately. Teachers around the country are using Starfall materials as an inexpensive way to make the classroom more fun and to inspire a love of reading and writing. Primarily designed for first grade, Starfall.com is also useful for pre-kindergarten, kindergarten and second grade. Starfall is perfect for Home Schooling.
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1voteLike many 7- and 8-year-old girls online, Emily and Kayla Strickland are regulars to Barbie.com and the virtual world Webkinz. But much to their mom's delight, the sisters also have been longtime fans of Starfall, an educational Web site whose star is quickly rising among parents, teachers and kids as young as 2 years old. Like a Sesame Street program, the free Web site teaches kids their ABCs a
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