Re: Research in the classroom question for you?

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Posted on 6/29/11

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On 6/29/11, Karen M. wrote:
> On 6/29/11, parents talk wrote:
>> On 6/28/11, Karen M. wrote:
>>> On 6/28/11, parents talk wrote:
>>>> Thank you for such a lovely story. Yes, I like the rhymes too. I
just took a class in Orton-Gillingham training for Dyslexics and I was
thrilled to see that what I had done with Letterland so matched
teaching dyslexics. My own two sons are dyslexics and they started with
Letterland and are now excellent readers and spellers.
>
> 13 years ago, when my district went from half day to full day K, and
> the majority of children did not attend preschool of ANY kind, we
> attended a 2 day inservice on Letterland. I used Letterland
> exclusively for the first 7-8 years, and then my district shifted to
> Harcourt Brace Trophies for Kindergarten.
>
> Our population has changed also. More and more children are
> attending pre-school at 3 years of age, continuing with a 4 year old
> program, and then entering K. All of our district 3 and 4 year old
> PreK's use Letterland and Creative Curriculum.
>
> I LOVE Letterland!! I continue to use it during my first 30 days of
> school to review letters and letter sounds. I love the older music
> that goes with each of the letters. They originally used good old
> fashioned nursery rhyme songs and piggybacked their lyrics with
> them. The newer music is faster and "jazzier". I think the older
> version allows the children to actually hear the sounds better. I
> still use the large charts with each character when I review the
> letters. I find that after our initial review, the children make a
> very smooth transition to remembering just the letter names and
> sounds, and not the characters, although the characters are VERY
> helpful when remembering /u/ and explaining blends and diagraphs!
>
> I'm SO glad to hear that Letterland is being used elsewhere. It's
> such a wonderful program! Lynn did a huge amount of research when
> she was developing this program. She truly understands how young
> children internalize and learn. I met her and her son (Hairy Hat
> Man!!) years ago. Such lovely people!!

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