Read Quick Reading Program
is a departure from the standard phonetic
"sound-out-the-syllables" methods historically
taught. This 3-Step System replaces the
confusing rules and sounds of inconsistent syllables
that make up the English language. Students
are taught to apply 47 letter clusters of 2-5
letters, we call Combinations; 5 rules to control
and C, G, & Y; and 2 rules to control vowel sounds.
This simple 3-Step System allows students to decode
(unlock/pronounce) nearly every word in the English
language. This
is the reading key that provides the difference
between reading success and failure.
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Read Quick Works |
Gift of
Literacy - Read Quick system is unlike any other
reading program in American education.
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"Method makes sense! Read Quick
is
easy to understand and follow."
Grade 7 Remedial
Reading Teacher |
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"Great Response
from my clients,
grades 1-adult, about
Read Quick."
Literacy Specialist |
Using Read Quick reading program, students will learn how to easily read
multi-syllable words for comprehension and literacy by following
the simple, fast and accurate
3-Step System.
Students as young as 4-5, as well as adults,
develop word fluency for learning how to read.
Teach
ESL, ELL,
special needs,
dyslexics,
remedial readers
to acquire English
vocabulary skills as a result of the consistent
spelling and
speech of the Combinations. Mastery occurs with modest practice. The only pre-requisite skill is to know the
letters and sounds of the alphabet..
Students reading speed and
ability to quickly decode multi-syllable words are
enhanced by using the Read Quick interactive software.
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Students use their listening
vocabulary to anchor identification and memory of
Combinations for reading success; used with regular,
gifted, and special needs learners.
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Once a word is marked using thee
3-Step
System, readers will have an accurate
'letter to sound guide' to correctly blend and
pronounce the word. Read Quick teaches English
speech while teaching decoding to read.
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All
sounds and spellings may be orally reviewed in 7-15
minutes.
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Following are 2 examples of how words are marked
using the 3-Step System for decoding.
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When Combinations are memorized and students
gain control of the 3-Step System, all markings are
eliminated from the process.
Students will develop proper
speech sounds and reading skills while learning to mark
Combinations, Borrowers, and vowels, applying the 3
steps on unknown words from reading textbooks and other
genres.
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When Combinations are created by adding an 'affix' to a
word, newly created Combination is underlined and
controlled. This process eliminates the need to
identify affixes for exposing the base word for
pronunciation.
- Sources for Combinations:
- Diphthongs
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Digraphs
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Common syllables
- 18 Letter Clusters from
National Research Panel, recommended for all
students; and
- 8 letter clusters, added by the author.
- The majority of students
included in the National Reading Statistics
classified as remedial are right brain, dyslexic or
learning disabled with a visual problem that can be
corrected with proper exercises.
- Visual tracking problems effect
80-90% of special education students and results in students
inability to remember what they read. Two
symptoms to look for
are eye fatigue and headaches.
- Dominance testing is critical
to successfully remediate students with different
dominance profiles between the brain, eyes, and hearing.
This group of students need a different teaching
strategy, provided by the Read Quick 3-Step System.
- To prevent reading failure,
begin teaching Read Quick to students, grades 1-3,
to provide them with decoding skills that are
accurate, easily learned for mastery, and retained
for future reading application.
- Read Quick is a logical
process, easy to teach and learn, that develops
reading abilities, taught and
implemented using the Gestalt* method.
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* Gestalt teaching means:
Explaining the whole concept of a topic or skill before
providing the necessary individual pieces of information for
learning through lessons or reading.
Gestalt
(right brain), kinesthetic, dyslexic, and ESL students must
learn by this sequence of how materials are presented,
regardless of the lesson content. Read Quick teaches
all lessons in this sequence:
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| SEE & HEAR
- SEE & SAY -
SEE & DO |
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Read
Quick is a decoding system and may be
used to decode 92% of English words. It is
successful when used with words from any reading
text and may be used with adopted reading
programs, as well as all genres.
In a school year (September-June), average students will gain 2-6 years in
reading comprehension using Read Quick.
Special education students in high
school gained 2+ years in that same 9 month period for increasing their
literacy skills.
"My son is able to use the simple Read
Quick rules with confidence to tackle
any new word."
Dawn, Middle School
Parent |
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"A light clicked on
-- and my grandson is reading at above
grade level after using your
reading
program."
Dr. Van Dis, MD FACC |
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IMPORTANT: Finding phonemes and
connecting with letters to make a syllable are basic reasons for
remedial readers to withdraw from their school work
and become school drop-outs. Reading failure begins in grade 4
and increases in severity - grades 7-12. We are just
recognizing the cost to individuals and our culture. This is
not a new phenomenon, failure rates of 50% and more have been
holding steady for over 70 years using the syllable method for
decoding a word.
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When developing reading abilities,
other reading handicaps come to life:
- Visual tracking
- Dominance Profile
- Visualization to see print as a picture for
comprehension (Visual Imagery)
- Lack of stereophonic hearing.
Examine this compelling recommendation from
the National Panel on Reading, requested by the federal government.
The entire Research Report is located at the Literacy Information
and Communication Services website.
www.lincs.ed.gov
"Teach
each sound-spelling correspondence explicitly.
Not all phonic instructional methods are equally effective. Tell the
children explicitly what single sound a given letter or letter
combination makes is more effective in preventing reading problems than
encouraging the child to figure out the sounds for letters by giving
clues. Many children have difficulty figuring out the individual
sound-spelling correspondence if they hear them only in the context of
words and word parts."
"Teach frequent, highly regular sound-spelling relationships
systematically. Only a few sound-spelling relationships
are necessary to read. The most effective
instructional programs teach children to read successfully with only
40-50 sound-spelling relationships. Writing can require a few
more, about 70 sound spelling relationships." See Research
findings related to reading on this website in PDF format.
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Both recommendations describe the 3-Step System precisely as do
other 'panel' recommendations that are part of the Read Quick method.
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