"This program works! After 9 months of using these materials, our results were awesome! 88% of our 1st, 2nd,and 3rd graders rose from 1-5 grade levels in reading above grade level. Features are diagnosing exact skills mastered and needed, placing students at their instructional level, and teaching the skills in all learning styles." --Principal, R. Lewis, Sipley Elementary School, Woodridge, IL Now, parents can improve and accelerate their child's reading abilities and learning at home! The companion materials to popular books, Solving Your Child's Reading Problems, and Your Child Can Be a Great Reader, by Ricki Linksman. Find out how to diagnose your child's or teen's reading problems and abilities and how to correct them quickly. Proven to raise student's reading levels from 2-5 grade levels in months and help students become successful. Also: NEW: Keys to Reading Success online parent kit: Raise your K-12 child's reading comprehension level from two to five grade levels in months in the comfort of your own home. Keys to Reading Success is an accelerated learn to read program with all the instantly scored reading diagnosis tests, learning style tests, brain style tests (brain hemispheric preference test), phonics tests, and early reading assessments that give you an instant individual prescriptive plan on why your child is struggling with reading and how to fix any reading problem quickly. Includes accelerated reading lesson plans in all learning styles for comprehension, phonics, fluency, reading speed, vocabulary, and test-taking skills to raise your child's reading level and reading tests scores quickly. For pre-K, K through grades 12, and college. The most cost-effective and rapid solution to find your child's reading problem instantly and fix it quickly. Less expensive than the printed kit. Visit the website or order by going to: http://www.thereadingexpert.com http://www.thereadingexpert.com or call (630) 717-4221 for more information. From Cedar Rapids, Iowa "Gazette": "Author Ricki Linksman has plenty of tips for parents who want to be sure their kids love to read, and can read well. Her book, "Your Child Can Be a Great Reader" argues that parents should supplement school education with home tutoring in reading, and she offers lesson plans to that end." (January 3, 1999) From the Abilene Reporter-News, Abilene, Texas: "This step-by-step guide is designed to help children overcome every kind of reading problem and get back up to grade level or beyond. It is filled with short, fun activties to do at home and provides pointers to boost self-esteem and motivation." (Jan. 24, 1999) From "Woman News," New York, New York: "There is a way to learn anything you want rapidly and successfully. The technique can be applied to any sort of learning in any field you choose. Each of us has a superlink--the easiest method for us to fully learn information....Once you've found your superlink, you can use it to learn in ways that are easy, effortless, and automatic." From How to Learn Anything Quickly, by Ricki Linksman--as published in an article in New York's Woman News called, "Mind Power: Smarten Up! Tap into Your Brain's Superlink--Learning Becomes Easy, Effortless, and Automatic, April 1998 edition From L.A. Parent and San Diego Parent: "All children in California will be reading at grade level or above by the end of third grade." With this promise, California state leaders have made reading instruction in the early grades (K through 3) a top priority in the public schools. So while the politicians are trying to do their part, how can parents help their little readers measure up? According to Ricki Linksman, author of Your Child Can Be a Great Reader, parents should first figure out their child's learning style. "Research shows that each of us receives information in different ways," Linksman explains. "Visual learners learn better through their eyes, auditory through their ears, tactile learners by touching, and kinesthetic learners by moving around.:--from an article in the L.A. Times and San Diego Times, "What is Your Child's Reading Style? If You Know How Your Child Reads You Can Help Him/Her Learn, by Judy Molland, March 1999 Here are comments from parents who have used this program: "For the first time, my 2nd grader could read on his grade level and his self-esteem has risen tremendously." --Parent, Chicago "My son in high school who was starting to get "F's" and "D's" is now getting "A's" and "B's". --School Counselor, DuPage County "It helped parents realize that they can be empowered to help their children improve their skills." --Principal, Will County Many parents have also used this kit to home-school their children: "I home-school my children and I learned how to accelerate their reading at home." --Parent, Batavia This kit provides testing materials to find our your child's current reading level, phonics skills, reading speed, and comprehension level. It contains a test to determine your child's best learning style (visual, auditory, tactile, and kinesthetic) and brain style (left brain or right brain), which combine to make one's superlink to accelerated reading. After pinpointing your child's needs in reading, it contains actual lesson plans and activities to teach your child an entire course in phonics in months! It contains lesson plans and activities to teach literal and inferential reading comprehension, vocabulary strategies, study skills, note-taking skills, memory improvement, metacognitive thinking skills, and test-taking skills. Can be used with students in regular education programs from grades K-12, college, and even adult. It has helped students with ADD or ADHD, learning disabilities, reading disabilities, and dyslexia raise their reading achievement. It has helped students in ESL (English as a Second Language), ESOL, and bilingual programs improve in reading. It has helped challenge and motivate gifted students. "My gifted child loves the challenging activities." --Parent, Downers Grove The materials have been used by international students to learn to read English. It has also helped adult in adult literacy programs learn to read. Parents have used the materials to accelerate learning in their pre-schoolers, nursery, and kindergarten children. This kit can help teachers accelerate students' growth in rating anywhere from 1-5 reading levels above grade level in less than a year for regular education students, and show considerable gains for special education students. Here is what one teacher has said: "With these materials, I now have some tools to use to evaluate why some of my students were not learning and ways to teach them all. I recommend that every teacher use this method--it will open your eyes and hearts." --Teacher, Aurora Public Schools, Illlinois Tested and proven to raise student scores and achievement, it provides a complete program to teach phonics, vocabulary strategies, literal and inferential comprehension, study skills, memory improvement, metacognitive thinking techniques, note-taking skills, and test-taking skills to improve reading as well as achievement in content area subjects. It provides materials to diagnose reading level, abilities in phonics and comprehension, fluency, and learning style (visual, auditory, tactile, and kinesthetic) and brain style (left brain or right brain), which together comprise one's superlink to accelerated learning. It provides complete lesson plans to teach phonics, comprehension, and study skills through learning styles. The kit contains a system to track student progress through accelerated phonics. The Parent Kit contains: Diagnostic Testing Materials Linksman Phonics Diagnostic Test & Instructional Manual & Individual Record Form Linksman Passage Reading Tests to Diagnose Reading Skills The Linksman Learning Style Preference Assessment and Brain Hemispheric Preference Assessment & Instruction Manual Teaching Materials: How to Learn Accelerated Phonics through Learning Styles, by Ricki Linksman How to Learn Literal and Inferential Comprehension through Learning Styles, by Ricki Linksman How to Learn Memory, Note-Taking, Study, & Test-Taking Skills through Learning Styles, by Ricki Linksman The Vowel and Consonant Guide, by Ricki Linksman Kit comes with a special carrying case. Shipping and handling: Add $25.00 per kit. Special Offer: Parents who want to have their PTA or PTO organizations buy these kits for teachers, will receive a 10% discount for each class kit purchased. Extra optional services, but not required for the purchase of a kit: Consultations: If you feel you would like to use the kit, but would like help in scoring the reading diagnostic test and learning style/brain style test, then you may order a paid consultation for us to score the test and give you the results by mail or e-mail. Scoring fee and analysis: $75.00. Order from the Consultation/Training page, or the Reading Diagnosis or Learning Style pages, or email us at readinginstruction@yahoo.com . For an additional phone consultation about your child's specific needs: add $25.00 for 15 minutes, $50.00 for 30 minutes; $75.00 for 45 minutes; and $100.00 for an hour. In the consultation you can ask specific questions about your child, discuss the scoring and results, and the personalized plan your child needs at home to improve their reading and learning. To order, see the Consultation/Training page, the Reading Diagnosis and the Learning Style pages of readinginstruction.com for details, or email us at readinginstruction@yahoo.com In-person reading diagnostic testing and learning style/brain style testing, is currently available in the Chicago area. Contact National Reading Diagnostics Institute in Naperville, Illinois at (630) 717-4221 or e-mail at readinginstruction@yahoo.com for information. |
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