Imagine my joy and excitement when this opportunity showed up in my LinkedIN feed! Denise Eide's resource has made a HUGE impact in my schoolwork with current Teachers and Pre-Service Educators (and my journey as a mother). As I work in my schools, we can't seem to find and allocate enough funds for Orton Gillingham training, but I know this background knowledge will be instrumental in changing the way we teach students during Phonics & Word Study. Utilizing Eide's book (along with UFLI) has changed the lives of many on this learning curve adventure!
I remember telling my students in first grade, "You just need to memorize the word have. We write h-a-v and add an e...." And then several years later, I was fortunate to return as their 5th grade teacher, but I had to eat my own incorrect/incomplete notions and explain "no English word ends in v, always followed by a silent e." They were a little bit irritated that this information wasn't shared with them in first grade! However, just imagine their extreme frustration when they discovered that "when two vowels go walking, the first one does the talking" is rubbish. Most of the time. Simply not true!
While working with Pre-Service Educators, I've heard so many "Ohhhhh" and "Are you serious?", and it makes me all the more determined to make sure my fellow Educators grab onto this resource to further the knowledge we didn't necessarily receive before leaving our college careers. If you can't join this book study, Denise has been kind enough to create this Logic of English Book Study webinar. So good! So well worth your time! Definitely for all grade levels that are working with readers & writers!
Happy Learning! What did you not know? It's eye-opening, for sure!
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