Background
About The Author
Rationale
As teachers of reading, either in the classroom or as a parent, we need to copy the process that has been successful at providing talking and walking skills and apply it to reading. We need to give children the information they need to become a reader, in large quantities, before they are developmentally ready. Children then need time to develop the process of reading.
A Balanced Program
Pre-reading skills include:
Phonemic awareness
Knowledge of the alphabet
Sound-letter connections
Concepts of print
Vocabulary development
Comprehension
Making Great Readers targets the first four and advocates for comprehension.
Seeing Sound?
Objectives
According to the National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP) reading data for fourth graders from 2011, 34% of fourth graders were below basic readers. Making Great Readers believes this is unacceptable in our education system and offers a reading program that has been shown to produce far superior results. After reading the information on our site, please Contact Us to learn more, and schedule a professional development seminar with our founder Wallace Howard.