Give Your Child a 2 – 4 Year Advantage Learning Reading and Writing Whether Your Child Has LD, Dyslexia, ADHD, or is Gifted… You know your child is bright but you still have homework struggles.

You know how painful it is to see your child struggle or take forever to read their assignments. You just want to take that pain away. You so want to see your child read with ease. I’m here to tell you, learning reading doesn’t have to be so hard!

If you are interested in knowing how to make this the year that you really decide to help your child read, write, and do math with ease, then read on for a private tutoring / training invitation to how to help your child improve their learning reading and writing skills.
Build your child’s skills NOW! I will share with you are some important concepts and strategies on helping your child improve learning, including:

Bonnie Terry, leading Educational Therapist, has spent over 30 years studying the behavioral science behind how kids learn – and more importantly – what gets in the way, slows down and, if left unchecked, eventually grinds to a halt the core learning processes.

Bonnie Terry, M. Ed., BCET is giving a no-cost no-obligation private training call revealing how you as a parent can help your children improve their learning skills in just minutes a day whether they have LD, dyslexia, ADHD, are falling through the cracks, or are even gifted. On the call, Bonnie will reveal 5 specific strategies that you can use instantly to have your child on the speed to learning path.

To register for the FREE Call, just go to: http://www.dyslexiahelpnow.com/nov-training-call/

Bonnie Terry, leading Educational Therapist, has spent over 30 years studying the behavioral science behind how kids learn – and more importantly – what gets in the way, slows down and, if left unchecked, eventually grinds to a halt the core learning processes.

Auburn’s Bonnie Terry, M. Ed., BCET is giving a no-cost no-obligation private training call revealing for the first time how you as a parent can help your children improve their learning skills in just minutes a day and still have fun. On the call, Bonnie will reveal 5 specific strategies that you can use instantly to have your child on the speed to learning path.  The upcoming private training call is

Wednesday, Nov. 3^rd at 5 pm PST; 8 pm EST.

NOTE: ONLY 100 parents will join my clients on this exclusive training.

To register for the FREE Call, just go to: http://www.dyslexiahelpnow.com/nov-training-call/

NOTE: ONLY 100 parents will be able to join my clients on this exclusive training.

Here’s what you need to know right now about giving your child a 2 – 4 year advantage in just 20 minutes a day.

1. This will work with every child, whether they have LD, dyslexia, ADHD, are falling though the cracks, or are even gifted.

2. Much of this training is totally ‘below the radar.’ Your kids won’t even realize they are learning with greater ease. Learning just becomes easier for them.

3. This system uses a speed to learning method that I have perfected over the last 35+ years. Not only will you have a way to profoundly impact your child’s learning,

but you will also impact your whole family’s quality of life.

Here’s what parents have to say:

“My son has been GREATLY helped by

Bonnie Terry’s system.  He is fourteen now,

and finally reading quite well.  Bonnie,

I want to thank you again for everything

you have done to help us homeschooling parents.

I recommend your system to all my friends,

homeschooling or not.  Thanks again!”

Millie H, Parent, FL

“I used Bonnie Terry’s system to improve

my sons´ reading and overall they enjoyed

them, and also we had success in the improvement

of their reading.  They are both quite good

readers now.  They once in awhile like to go

back and see how fast they can do the pages,

just for fun. Bonnie, thanks for the help you have given us.

One of my sons was quite dyslexic in reading,

but after using your system, I rarely notice any sign of it.

He actually enjoys reading.  He’s read Narnia on his own!”

Jeanine F, Parent, Il

To register for the FREE Call, just go to: http://www.dyslexiahelpnow.com/nov-training-call/

Who is Bonnie Terry?

Bonnie Terry, M. Ed., BCET is a Board Certified Educational Therapist and best selling author with over 35 years of experience. She is the CEO of Bonnie Terry Learning, one of the fastest growing high-level education companies specializing in giving a 2 – 4 year advantage in reading, writing, and math to LD, dyslexic, ADHD, and gifted children.

With thousands of case studies, articles, and national and international consultations/presentations and awards, Bonnie Terry shows parents, homeschoolers, and teachers how to identify their child’s learning problems and how to address them in 20 minutes a day, whether their kids have LD, dyslexia, ADHD, are falling through the cracks, or are even gifted. Then she follows you every step of the way, ensuring your child’s success.

If you are interested in a system that will help you properly identify your child’s learning problems and be able to address them…

If you are interested in a system that can instantly turn your struggling children into children that learn with ease…

If you are scared or anxious about what will happen to your child if s omething doesn’t change and you are afraid you can’t make a difference in their lives…   Then join Bonnie on the call.
To register for the FREE Call, just go to: http://www.dyslexiahelpnow.com/nov-training-call/

Help Your Kids Improve Reading Skills

As a parent you do have the power and ability to help your kids improve their reading skills. There are 4 easy to implement activities that each take just a few minutes a day to improve reading.

1. Improve reading fluency in 5 minutes a day
2. Improve spelling and learn the 8 ways we put letters together to make words
3. Improve reading comprehension by playing a reading comprehension game
4. Improve writing skills using specially designed graphic organizers

Today I’m going to talk about the first activity you can implement in just minutes a day.

Improve Reading Skills: Reading Fluency Training

Reading fluency training is one of the easiest activities for parents to do with their kids to improve reading skills, and it only takes 5 minutes a few times a week to make a dramatic difference. Reading fluency training works to improve reading skills whether you have LD, dyslexia, are falling through the cracks, or are even gifted.

You may not realize how important reading fluency and accuracy is, so here is an example on how it impacts your reading or your child’s reading.

For example, you are reading a passage and read Susan can go to the store. You finish reading the selection and go to the questions and there is a question that asks, Why couldn’t Susan go to the store? You think to yourself – What…I read Susan can go to the store. This question doesn’t make any sense to me. BUT, what the sentence actually said was…Susan can’t go to the store. Your eyes skipped the apostrophe t…The whole meaning was lost.

That is one of the things that the Five Minutes to Better Reading Skills reading fluency training program corrects. With improved reading fluency, you don’t skip or omit words or parts of words. You don’t miss out on important pieces that are critical to reading comprehension. That is why it is important to have accurate reading for reading comprehension.

Bonnie,

I found you through Youtube and am intrigued by the 10 Minutes to Better Study Skills!

My home-schooled daughter is 16 and dual-enrolling in our local community college and currently in her first class.

She is struggling with note-taking!  She also took the SAT in June and scored poorly in the reading portion, especially the “passage” reading. I’m beginning to make the connection with these two problems… there seems to be a struggle, for her, in pulling out keys points in a written document, or passage, and in an oral lecture.

She tends to want to write down too much from a lecture and gets overwhelmed when given a passage to read with questions to answer, especially when timed. For writing assignments, she is gifted in vocabulary usage, spelling and grammar, but the process of writing becomes a long, drawn-out process.

She wants to “hover” over a slew of ideas but struggles to land the plane.  When she does land the plane, it will take hours.

Will your book and the forms therein help us?

Karen McGold

Karen,

There is a direct connection with the ability to pull out the main idea and important details and note-taking. You want to be sure the notes you take are meaningful and when you don’t know how to quickly pull out that information from either reading a passage or listening to a lecture, you are ‘sunk’.

That is one of the specific reasons I designed the graphic organizers in Ten Minutes to Better Study Skills in the manner that I did. These forms not only help you with note-taking, they also become a ‘study-guide’ for you when you are reviewing the material or answering the questions at the end of a section or chapter. They can also be used to learn how to take notes while listening to a lecture or presentation.

The graphic organizer fill-in-the-blank forms are designed specifically with your daughter in mind.

Another product that will also help her is our game the Comprehension Zone because it teaches you specifically how to pull out the main idea, details, and sequence what you read or listen to in a game format. It can be played for both reading or listening comprehension. Playing with the skill, practicing the skill through play, and then utilizing the Ten Minutes to Better Study Skills will go a long way in teaching her those missing skills.

Bonnie Terry, M. Ed., BCET
http://bonnieterrylearning.com

I know summer is winding down, but there is still time to have fun and bring your child’s skills up. Just click Summer Activities to Improve Your Child’s Skills and Still Have Fun to see how plus get a free ebook with over 80 fun family activities in it.

I know you may be thinking that you can’t wait till school starts and your kids have more structure, but there is nothing like taking the last few weeks of the summer and infusing in some extra fun while gearing your kids up for the new school year. This is especially important if your kids have any learning problems, dyslexia, or ADHD. Giving your kids the best start you can is one of the most important things you can do as a parent.

I know when my kids were home by the time we got to the middle of July I was ready to have them back in school. Since the start of school was not up to me, we got a bit creative instead, and did a variety of activities. Listen in on all of the suggestions and get your free e-book with over 80 fun family activities now.

Summer Activities to Improve Your Child’s Skills and Still Have Fun

Hope you enjoy it! And, be sure to pass this post on to your friends.

Bonnie Terry, M. Ed., BCET

This study was just reported on … thought you would be interested…

May 1, 2009 (WLS) — Many parents know about reading disabilities such as dyslexia. But there has been little research into writing disabilities.

Now a new study suggests writing disorders are just as common as reading disabilities and are most likely to affect boys. One such disorder is dysgraphia, which includes problems with handwriting, spelling and organizing thoughts on paper.

While the majority of children diagnosed with a writing problem also had a reading disability, researchers say one-fourth of those studied only had a writing issue.

As for why boys have more writing problems than girls, the study in the journal Pediatrics says the gender gap issue needs more research.

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Learn more about writing difficulties and what to do about them…

Bonnie Terry, M Ed., BCET

I just started reading the book How to Read a Book. It was written in 1940 about reading. One of the very interesting comments it makes is ”there is some feeling nowadays that reading is not as necessary as it once was.”  This statement was made in 1940! How many of us think that is the current situation? After all, we have video, ipods, computers, and televisions that have taken over many of the functions of books, newspapers, and journals. What often happens then is that people don’t have to actually ‘make up their minds’ about anything, instead they can just take the opinions of others without having to actually think.

This is one of the reasons reading is so critical, so that we teach everyone to think for themselves. Remember, reading is an actual activity. You can’t be passive when you read. You need to actually put out some effort and receive the information the writer is giving. Reading becomes almost like playing catch with a ball. The writer throws the ball and the reader catches it.

Your success in catching the ball, reading, is then determined by how much you receive, understand, and utilize the information you have read. Reading is so much more than just word calling. Reading is the active understanding, contemplation, and utilization of the written word where you gain a greater understanding than you had before you started to read.

There are several goals of reading: to gain information, to have increased understanding, and to be entertained. Reading for entertainment is the least demanding kind of reading and requires the least amount of effort. This is why we start our children off with reading stories for entertainment. This helps to provide both ease and love of reading.

Once the process of reading is relatively easy, we add reading for information in the way of history, geography, and science. With this in mind, anytime your children read for pleasure, whether it is comic books, short stories, or novels, take the time to rejoice that they will have an easier time when it comes to reading for information. Pleasure reading is just that, pleasure reading. So, it is fine to read a book that is written at an easier grade level than their textbooks.

Our goal here is to create readers. As we create readers we can start to teach them how to process, retain, and comprehend the written word. It is easiest to do this starting with simple note-taking from the short stories or books they have read. Teach the process with material that is easy and fun. Once children are familiar with how to take notes and write summaries it is easy to move on to the goal of reading for information, understanding, utilization, and enlightenment with their text book reading.

There are painless ways to do this. Note taking and writing projects don’t have to be hard. Using specially designed graphic organizers will make the process quick and pain free!

We can’t keep our head in the sand, just ‘playing back’ someone elses opinions. Our children deserve better than that. Our nation deserves better than that. We can teach them how to read for meaning and how to utilize what they have read.

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Bonnie Terry, M. Ed., BCET

I was in a business class yesterday and this quote was discussed regarding business.

The conduct of successful business merely consists in doing things in a very simple way, doing them regularly, and never neglecting to do them.

Quoted by: William Lever of Lever Brothers

Think about this. Isn’t this also true of reading, whether you struggle with reading or not? If I change the word business to reading we have:

The conduct of successful reading merely consists in doing things in a very simple way, doing them regularly, and never neglecting to do them.

There are simple things you can do every day or 3 days a week, never neglecting them, to empower your students to become successful readers.

Remember, there are 3 roadblocks to reading:

1. Phonetic problems

2. Reading fluency/visual tracking problems

3. Lack of language or vocabulary

Successful reading needs activities that are simple, done regularly, and never neglected.

I suggest doing them at least 3 times a week. The activities need to incorporate phonics, fluency, and language/vocabulary training. The Reading Pack

addresses all 3 of these with simple activities that don’t take a lot of time. The Sentence Zone game also builds vocabulary.

Bonnie Terry, M. Ed., BCET

Board Certified Educational Therapist

Every time my students read, I ask them an important question. Is what you read informational (expository) or did it have a beginning, middle, and an end (narrative)? From their answer I give them a fill-in-the-blank graphic organizer form that they can use to take notes from the passage they read.(See Ten Minutes to Better Study Skills)

This step helps them to utilize and internalize what they have read. The next step is to have them write a summary paragraph of what they read. I have them use the notes they took. Finally, I have my students answer the questions that relate to the story or passage, checking their comprehension.

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