Reading Reflex: The Foolproof Phono-Graphix Method for Teaching Your Child to Read - Hardcover

McGuinness, Carmen; McGuinness, Geoffrey

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0684839660 ISBN 13: 9780684839660

Publisher: The Free Press, 1998

Synopsis

In America today, approximately 50 percent of our children score below the average grade level in reading. Concerned parents will go to any length to improve their child's reading skills, sometimes spending thousands of dollars on remedial specialists. In Reading Reflex, Carmen and Geoffrey McGuinness, the founders of Read America, one of the most successful remedial reading programs in the nation, offer a low-cost, fool proof method for teaching reading to children who have problems.The McGuinness's program, Phono-Graphix "TM", allows parents to use what the child already knows, the sounds of his own language, to teach reading in record time. Research shows this linguistically based method teaches reading in one tenth the time of phonics, with a one hundred percent success rate.Within 12 sessions of using this program, learning-disabled students, as well as children with lower than average reading skills, increased their reading skills by at least one grade level. After only 11 weeks of exposure, four and five year olds were reading at first grade level. Though the program was developed for children, it has also proved highly successful for illiterate or struggling adult readers.Featuring fun, easy-to-understand lessons, diagnostic tests, instructional exercises, games, and step-by-step lesson plans for parents, Reading Reflex provides all the tools for teaching a child to be an excellent reader!

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Review:

Steve Truch director of The Reading Foundation The authors have done parents everywhere a great service. This book contains a well-researched and logical system of teaching children to read. It will go a long way in helping to meet the literacy challenge of the 21st century.

Nancy Loyd managing editor, Florida Primary Educator Reading Reflex gives parents everything they need to teach the young child who is ready to learn or the older child who is struggling.

Daily Telegraph (London) A sparklingly clear guide to teaching reading...Reading Reflex is the essential handbook for anyone who wants to teach reading at home or in the classroom.

From the Back Cover:

HELP YOUR CHILD UNLOCK THE SOUND-PICTURE CODE

Reading is the single most important skill for any child to develop. And the key to learning how to read effectively is recognizing the sounds that letters and words represent. With the help of the revolutionary system known as Phono-Graphix, "TM" you and your child can discover the sound-picture code that is the foundation of the written English language.

An effective and easy-to-understand approach, Phono-Graphix enables you to teach your child to read in one-tenth the time of phonics with a 100 percent success rate. In just eleven weeks, you can bring your kindergartner to first-grade-level reading -- even learning-disabled children can reach grade level or higher in just twelve weeks.

Reading Reflex provides you with:
-- Simple diagnostic tests to determine your child's reading level, and a Literacy Growth Chart so you'll know what goals to establish
-- Detailed instructions and illustrations to help your child develop strong, consistent reading skills and to correct ineffective reading strategies such as part-word reading and memorizing
-- Fun and easy-to-follow exercises, hands-on materials, worksheets, stories, and games that you and your child can do together
-- Enjoyable lessons that are carefully constructed to meet the interests and capabilities of children of all ages

About this edition

• Publisher: The Free Press
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0684839660
• ISBN 13: 9780684839660
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 353