Dec 2024 From My Learning Farm www.mylearningfarm.com: For Gen Alpha Reading Is a Becoming a Privilege

This article appeared on MSN today and it BREAKS my heart-it’s a 12 min read, but worth it, sad as it is, parents please urge state and federal education leaders to use evidence-based reading strategies to bolster reading levels in kids, to help kids find success in reading!  Generation Alpha is today’s 2-12 year olds, they have the LOWEST reading scores our nation has experienced.  Houston-we have a problem.  This problem can be solved-the government it touting their newest buzz word “the science of reading” this article goes along with my Nov blog.  We already HAVE “the science of reading”-we’ve had it for over 150 years thanks to the work of Anna Gillingham and Samuel Orton who pioneered the Orton-Gillingham method of teaching reading in a systematic, phonics-based, foundational, multi-sensory approach-this METHOD WORKS!!!!!!!!

I can’t tell you the number of phone calls I get from concerned parents each week, I wish I could clone myself to be able to help every kiddo who needs Orton-Gillingham structured literacy to become proficient, enthusiastic readers!  I LOVE what I do to help kiddos in reading, writing, spelling, math and farm classes, but the kiddos are the real HEROS-they come to me twice weekly for 90-120 minutes and they work HARD for 2-3 years to master reading. My students know more about the 374+ phonics rules of the English language, digraphs, diphthongs, vowel teams, syllable patterning, SCHWA than most adults-they are my heroes and they are why I do what I do.

Please contact me today if your kiddo is a struggling reader at www.mylearningfarm.com