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Reading with TLC publishes educational materials and provides professional training for the development of reading skills. It features two multisensory, language-based programs that use oral kinesthetic (mouth movement) cues, imagery, and mnemonics (memory tricks) to develop phonemic awareness, reading, and spelling skills in a structured approach. The two clinically proven, research-based programs are Lively Letters and Sight Words You Can See.
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A day-long conference today at Kennebec Valley Community College will explore a wealth of data on reading, such as a study on Maine students who received Reading Recovery in the 2004-05 school year. Referring to the study, Teacher Leader Whendy Smith said that 71 percent of first-graders who received the full 20-week program were no longer considered at-risk students. The event is expected to attract 125 Reading Recovery and early literacy specialists from around the state. The conference is the first of two sponsored annually by the Center for Literacy at the University of Maine.
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WASHINGTON /PRNewswire/ -- This summer, when Americans catch up on their favorite reading, they will ... be enjoying a beloved American pastime that research shows is waning. According to a study by the National Endowment for the Arts, Americans of every age are consistently reading less. The study revealed an overall decline of 10 percent in literary reading between 1982 and 2002, totaling an overall loss of 20 million readers. Conversely, participants in the Talking Book program, a free library service provided by the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS), Library of Congress, read more than the general population by a significant amount. The average NLS patron, an individual with a visual or physical impairment, reads seven times more than most sighted readers, or approximately 35 books a year.
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STERLING - The RE-1 Valley school district recently received a grant to create a reading recovery program in Sterling, said RE-1 Valley Assistant Superintendent Ron Marostica at a news conference Wednesday. A $488,207 grant will be given to RE-1 over the next three years from the Morgridge Family Foundation exclusively for reading recovery. The grant will fund the program and reading recovery teachers. Those teachers will work individually with the pupils in the bottom 25 percent of the class until they are able to read at their average class level.
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[A] speed reading computer program is probably the most efficient way to achieve top reading levels. Computers offer unique exercises to boost reading efficiency through interactivity, text animation and pacing. Higher reading skills obtained with a computer screen are totally transferable to reading from paper. Unfortunately the inverse way does not work so well. Speed reading software delivers enjoyable and fast paced training... giving the consistent practice necessary to break lifelong slow reading habits. This is the task that seminars and speed reading books usually leave up to the reader.
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Fluency Foundation is a unique program for developing oral language and reading fluency. A brief four book program combining easy to read, code-progressive stories with rapid word naming practice, it incorporates the newest, research-validated ways to build word reading.
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