I am transferring my third grade daughter to a new school next year. Her eval indicates that she has both receptive and expressive language deficits. I am looking at two different schools, one which uses Project Read, which I have read a lot about, and one which uses Reading Milestones, about which I can find very little information. Does anyone have any information about the latter or any comparison of the two? Thanks for your help.
Re: Reading Milestones
Mary,
Thanks for your answer. I had already found the publisher’s site, but am looking for something less promotional. Didn’t find any actual users comments, even using Metacrawler. Has anyone used this?
Susan
Re: Reading Milestones
I found a few posts about RM at http://www.vegsource.com, especially on the homeschooling special needs list. One post said RM is a sight-reading program for deaf children. Another said it has a lot of repetition and is recommended for children with severe auditory deficits.
Mary
Re: Reading Milestones
I live in the Washington-DC area. Most schools around here for children with language-based learning disabilities use PhonoGraphix or Orton Gillingham. Have you looked at PhonoGraphix materials (www.readamerica.net). Either you using their book Reading Reflex (designed forparents) or a certified Phonographix tutor could probably get your daughter reading at grade level before next fall.
Re: Reading Milestones
I currently use Reading Milestones with some of my students. The books are put in a set of 10 readers per level and each reader has an accompanying workbook. The students who are using these books are very successful because they are learning vocabulary words paired with pictures. They receive practice without a lot of clutter on the pages. The workbook pages are set up in the same format through out. They learn sight words from the beginning in the Red Level I books. ProEd is working on their third edition of the books. The teacher’s manual doesn’t have the answers in it which is a disadvantage to the teacher, because another person can’t check student work unless they have read the stories because the students learn a lot of sequencing skills. Placement tests are available and easy to administer individually or in a group. If you call the company, they will be happy to send you a sample to preview. Please let me know if you have any questions. I have a lot more information I can give!
Phono-Graphix????
Linda:
I live in Northern Virginia. I know that Shay, who posts on this bulletin board from time to time, uses Phono-Graphix and has trained some other LD teachers in the program. I would love it if more schools would use Phono-Graphix for LD (and non-LD!) students. I was just curious as to which schools in the Washington, D.C. area use PG.
Thanks,
Margo
Re: Phono-Graphix????
I’ve heard that Kingsbury, a private LD school in the Kalorama area of the District uses phonographix. Private sessions are also available at Metropolitan Speech in Language in the District on Connecticut Ave. near the MD line. Metropolitan may know other schools that use it. They do a lot of work at the McLean School, a private two track (LD, non-LD)school in Potomac, so I wouldn’t be surprised if they use it too.
Re: Phono-Graphix????
The Lab School in Washington, DC and the Katherine Thomas School in Gaithersburg both use PhonoGraphix. Those are schools for children with language-based learning disabilities.
Among private schools for children without learning disabilities, both the Barrie School in Silver Spring, MD and Lowell School in Washington, DC use PhonoGraphix.
It seems to be the quickest way to get kids reading and spelling and for many kids, the quickest way to remediate.
You can find the company’s description of Reading Milestones at http://www.proedinc.com
Looks like it currently goes through 3rd grade, and they are working on 4th and 5th.
If you go to http://www.metacrawler.com and do a search, you may turn up comments from people who have experience with it.
Mary