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Improve Learning Reading Skills Easily

October 30th, 2010
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:
  • The power of understanding the underlying causes of your child's learning struggles.
  • The 3 Keys to put in place to accelerate your child's learning.
  • How to turn Your Child's Life of Learning Struggles into a Life of Joyful Learning in just 20 minutes a day using Speed to Learning principles.
    • 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. 3rd 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/

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    Reading Comprehension Game Improves Learning Skills

    October 2nd, 2010

    Playing Reading Comprehension Game

    Improves Learning Skills

    What if you could play a game and improve your child's reading and listening comprehension at the same time? It also sounds too good to be true doesn't it? But a game really can improve reading comprehension. As a learning disability specialist and board certified educational therapist I have probably worked with every type of reading problem, dyslexia, learning disability imaginable over my 37 years or teaching.

    Reading Comprehension Problems

    Many of my students had reading comprehension problems. They were very frustrated with their reading assignments. It was so hard for them when they had to read their social studies book and answer the questions at the end of the chapter. And they would often read the chapter multiple times and still not be able to answer the reading comprehension questions. The problem was, no one had taught my students how to read for meaning. There is a specific way you read for reading comprehension. There is a certain way to listen for listening comprehension.

    Solution to Reading Comprehension and Listening Comprehension Problems

    As a result of teaching frustrated students of all ages, students that had given up on being able to understand what they had read, I decided to create a game that would teach them how to read for meaning and improve their reading comprehension. I knew from both working with my students and from research on learning that game playing was a great way to teach and reinforce skills. So I developed The Comprehension Zone: Rocket Rap to help them improve their skills. What The Comprehension Zone: Rocket Rap™ did for our child: "The Comprehension Zone: Rocket Rap had amazing results for one of our children.   We have been working with him on comprehension for years.  I often have him draw pictures of what I’m reading, we act things out and we read just a few phrases at a time and ask him questions whenever we are dealing with auditory learning.  He simply struggles in this area.  I was interested to see how he would do with Rocket Rap. We began playing Rocket Rap often.  The improvement was rapid and dramatic!  By the end of the second game he was able to play successfully and currently it is easy enough for him to pick out facts while listening that he likes to try reading the card himself. For the first time in his life our child will raise his hand when Mark asks questions during family worship and he will know the answer.  He will come up to us after church and spontaneously tell us something that he learned from the sermon.  He is so amazingly proud of himself and I’m amazingly thankful. For our child who has always struggled with comprehension, for these results, I would happily pay double.  We’ve tried things similar to this in the past, we’ve been focused on this problem for years, but Rocket Rap has been the first activity that has been successful.” Kimberly from RaisingOlives.com

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    Improve Writing Skills with Specially Designed Graphic Organizers

    September 28th, 2010

    Why Use Graphic Organizers to

    Improve Writing?

    Writing is the doing part of thinking. To create good thinkers we need to create good writers. One of the easiest ways to create good writers is to use graphic organizers. The use of fill-in-the-blank organizers helps to prevent the deer in the headlights look kids give you when staring at blank sheets of paper.

    How Do Graphic Organizers Work?

    Using graphic organizers like those found in Ten Minutes to Better Study Skills make writing easy because all a student needs to do  is to fill-in-the-blanks. These are specially designed for students with LD, dyslexia, reading or writing problems, or even gifted students that don't like to write. My students used to bring me in their webbing forms and they couldn't make heads or tails of them let alone use them to write a summary.

    How Specially Designed Graphic Organizers Help

    I remember one student in particular, Adam. He was a junior in high school. He spent a lot of time on his webbing form and was quite proud of the fact that he was able to do it. However, now that it was done he had to use it to write a paper. He was stymied, stuck in his tracks. He had no idea how to use it. He couldn't tell what went with what. It was a mess. So, he handed me his webbing form, totally frustrated saying 'help' in a panic stricken voice because the paper was due the next day. We spent time going over his webbing form, rewriting it in a linear fashion, showing connections so he could actually make sense of it. Then he was able to turn the new form into a fill-in-the-blank essay with the forms that are in Ten Minutes to Better Study Skills. That is why these graphic organizers are specially designed with the end use in mind. Even if you struggle with reading or writing skills, these graphic organizer forms make your life a lot easier. Eric Jensen, author of Brain Based Learning, (1997) states that up to 87% of students do NOT learn from hearing alone. He goes on to state that we under-utlilize our visual system when learning. Using graphic organizers will increase student's learning. Through visual and kinesthetic methods you’ll increase student performance and writing skills. Do yourself a favor and start using these specially designed graphic organizers from Ten Minutes to Better Study Skills today.

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    50 Special Education Teachers and Experts Worth Following on Twitter

    September 24th, 2010

    Looking for Special Education Experts

    to Answer Your Education Questions?

    It is often hard to find who to go to to get your special ed questions answered. What if you could find the top Special Ed experts all in one place? There is now a list of the 50 top special ed experts that are worth following on twitter. I was just informed that such a list exists...and I'm on it.

    What type of Special Education Experts are on the list?

    Each of these experts give you the best cutting edge information on special ed on a daily basis. The list includes 20 special educators worth following. I also includes the top 17 advocates and groups to follow. It also includes 18 special ed tools (materials, law information, news, and organizations) to follow.

    This email just came in announcing the 50 Special Education experts...and I thought I'd share it.

    Hello Bonnie I’m just writing this to inform you that we’ve recently published an article on TeachTechTopia entitled, “50 Special Ed Teachers and Experts Worth Following on Twitter.” We were searching for some of the best twitter accounts to follow on the subject, and found @BonnieTerry_btl to be an excellent addition. Best, Alba Collazo Co-founder, TeachTechTopia Be sure to sign up for the free teaching tips above my photo on the right and email you special education questions to me.

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    Is your child struggling with dyslexia, reading skills, writing skills, spelling skills?

    August 16th, 2010

    Does Your Child Struggle with

    Dyslexia? Reading skills?

    Writing skills? Spelling skills?

    Many children struggle with learning or work harder than they need to. In fact, many children work 3, 4, or even 5 times harder than they need to. I'm not just talking about children with dyslexia or an identified learning disability, or ADHD. Children that are falling through the cracks or are average in school or even gifted also often work a lot harder than they need to. I believe all children as well as adults are talented, but sometimes there is something going on that is interfering with learning which makes reading, writing, spelling, or math harder than it needs to be.

    Stressed Because Your Child May Have Dyslexia and Struggles with Learning?

    That being said, are you stressed out because you know your child is bright, but you also know they struggled with school last year? Is your stomach in knots because you know the homework wars are coming? It doesn't have to be that way any longer. Reading, writing, and spelling do NOT have to be hard. Learning doesn't have to be hard. It is time to Awaken the Scholar Within your child.

    It Is Possible for All to Learn With Greater Ease Even with Dyslexia

    Typically when a child is struggling it is due to one or more areas of visual, auditory, or tactile/kinesthetic perception not working as efficiently as they could be, should be, and can. There are answers to how to identify what the underlying problems are as well as what you as a parent can do to help your child improve their skills. Watch this video and see what parents are saying...that it is possible for this year to be different. Be sure to read the 4 activities you can do to help your child even if they have dyslexia improve reading.

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    4 Activities to Improve Reading Skills (Part 4 – Writing)

    August 9th, 2010

    Improve Reading Skills Part 4 - Writing

    As a parent you have a large responsibility. You need to not only care for your child, you also need to watch over their education and be sure they learn with ease. Reading, writing, and spelling can be difficult for many kids. But as a parent, you do have the power and ability to help your kids improve reading, writing, and spelling skills. Now what I mean here is that you as a parent can help your child improve reading skills whether they have an identified learning disability, dyslexia, ADHD, are falling through the cracks or are gifted.

    4 Easy to Implement Activities to Improve Reading Skills

    Their 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 I've already talked about how you can help your child improve their reading fluency in just minutes a day. I've already talked about how you can help your child improve their spelling skills in just minutes a day. And, I've talked about how you can help your child improve their reading comprehension by playing a game with them. so, today I’m going to talk about the fourth activity which is helping your children improve their reading – and that is by helping them with their writing skills.

    The 4th Activity to Improve Reading Skills

    The fourth activity to help your kids improve reading skills is to help your kids learn how to take notes with the graphic organizers found in Ten Minutes to Better Study Skills. These fill-in-the-blank graphic organizers make note-taking, paragraph writing, and essay writing easy. As a parent, I hated watching my son struggle with a writing assignment. I’m sure you feel the same way. One of the best things I found to do to make this note-taking and paragraph writing or even essay writing easier was to create graphic organizers that were easy for him to fill in. Then he wasn’t staring at a blank sheet of paper anymore. It was so much easier for him to fill in the blanks and within about 10 minutes he’d have his notes done. His life became easier and my life became easier too. We didn’t have the ‘homework wars’ going on anymore. You know, I’ve had students bring me their notes over the years that they had done in class when they needed help writing their paper from them. The sad thing was, they couldn’t make heads or tails out of their notes even though they used a ‘webbing’ system when they did them. The notes were just too hard for them to follow. That is why I created the graphic organizers the way I did, so students whether they had perception problems or not would be able to utilize the notes they took. It isn’t enough to take the notes. You need to be able to utilize them after you’ve taken them. Donna Walker Tileston, author of What Every Teacher Should Know About the Brain states, “Approximately 87% of learners either need to see the learning or do something with it. Using visuals with the learning will help students take in the information more efficiently, but even more important, it helps them to develop their own methods for organizing content.” Using pictographs, charts and graphs, graphic organizers, and note-taking models is the way to do this. So, give the graphic organizers from Ten Minutes to Better Study Skills a try. I created them in such a way that once he filled them out he’d actually be able to use them for study guides or for help in turning notes into paragraphs or rough drafts into final copies.

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    4 Activities to Improve Reading Skills (Part 3 – Reading Comprehension)

    August 6th, 2010

    4 Activities to Improve Reading Skills

    (Part 3 - Reading Comprehension)

    As a parent you do have the power and ability to help your kids improve their reading skills. Now what I mean here is that you as a parent can help your child whether they have an identified learning disability, dyslexia, ADHD, or are gifted. 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

    Improve Reading Skills Activities

    The first activity you can do to help your child improve reading skills  just takes 5 minutes a day - reading fluency. The second activity which is helping your children improve reading skills is by helping your children improve their spelling skills (about 12 minutes). The third activity is to play games with your children. The key here is to play games that are specifically designed to improve reading comprehension. So, the third activity is playing a reading comprehension game. That’s right, game playing! Playing The Comprehension Zone, a reading comprehension game, teaches your kids how to read for the main idea and details or sequence what they read does the trick. So many children struggle with reading comprehension, specifically finding the main idea of what they are reading or finding details that support the main idea or for sequential order. This can be daunting for some students, and not just those students with LD, dyslexia, or ADHD. You don't have to have a learning disability to have difficulty with reading comprehension! Even gifted children sometimes struggle with reading comprehension. Think about how difficult note-taking is when you don’t have a clue about the main idea of what you read. Typically you either stare at blank sheets of paper or you copy everything down, not knowing how to pick out the important information.

    Play Reading Game to Improve Reading Skills

    To be able to play a game and learn, practice, and reinforce the skill of pulling out the main idea and the details or putting information into sequential order at the same time is quite something. Additionally, this  reading game can be played for both reading comprehension or listening comprehension. One of the beauties of playing games that improve reading skills, teach, and reinforce skills is that you are in a relaxed state when you are playing. Leaning is retained more efficiently when your body is not in a tense fight or flight state. Using games to learn skills is a way to learn in a non-threatening way. Games even help and encourage learners to stay interested and they often work happier and longer without even realizing it. Lee Su Kim states: 'There is a common perception that all learning should be serious and solemn in nature, and that if one is having fun and there is hilarity and laughter, then it is not really learning. This is a misconception. It is possible to learn a language as well as enjoy oneself at the same time. One of the best ways of doing this is through games.' 'There are many advantages of using games to improve reading skills in the classroom: 1. Games are a welcome break from the usual routine of the language class. 2. They are motivating and challenging. 3. Learning a language requires a great deal of effort. Games help students to make and sustain the effort of learning. 4. Games provide language practice in the various skills- speaking, writing, listening and reading. 5. They encourage students to interact and communicate. 6. They create a meaningful context for language use.' Creative Games for the Language Class 'Forum' Vol. 33 No 1, January - March 1995, Page 35 So, be sure to include games like The Comprehension Zone in your family’s activities. Your children will benefit from them. And, you will be spending quality time with your children and be helping them improve their reading comprehension skills at the same time.

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    4 Easy Activities to Improve Reading Skills (Part 1)

    August 1st, 2010

    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.

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    Mid Summer Training – What You Can Do to Prepare Your Kids for School

    July 9th, 2010
    Mid Summer Training – What You Can Do to Prepare Your Kids for School I Can Hardly Believe It? Check it out... The FREE Live Teleseminar is filling up fast – Only 100 68 52 Spots left! Reserve your spot now. Mid-Summer Training Call I have had so many calls from parents recently, wondering how to help their child between now and when school starts back up. They realize it’s not too late to give their child a boost, but they also want to be sure they have an enjoyable rest of the summer. So, I decided to have a teleseminar where I will present information on summer activities to help your child's skills improve as well as activities rich in experiences and family time. I'm hosting a FREE Live Teleseminar on Wednesday July 14th at 8 pm Eastern, 7 pm Central, 6 pm Mountain, and 5 pm Pacific. Upon registering you will receive a FREE Handbook on the 5 things you can do to help your child over the summer. Those that attend live will receive a surprise FREE gift. Searching for Mid-Summer Activities to Improve Your Child's Skills and Still Have Fun? FREE Live Teleseminar on Wednesday June 2nd at at 8 pm EST, 7 pm CST, 6 pm MST, and 5 pm PST. Space is limited. You can attend via phone or via internet! Reserve your Teleseminar line now at: Title: Mid-Summer Activities to Improve Your Child’s Skills and Still Have Fun Time: Wednesday, July 14th at 5:00pm Pacific Listening method: Phone + Web Simulcast To attend, visit: Mid-Summer Training Call LD Specialist and Board Certified Educational Therapist Bonnie Terry, M. Ed., is answering your questions about summer activities to help your child improve their skills. The teleseminar will be recorded; if you can't attend, you'll be able to listen later. Plus special surprise bonus just for registering! Those that attend live will receive another surprise FREE gift. Mid-Summer Training Call

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    6 Must-do Learning Games & Activities For the Summer

    June 3rd, 2010
    Can you do your own summer learning program? Should you do your own summer learning program? Fact: More than half of the achievement gap present in 9th grade between lower- and higher-income children can be explained by summer learning loss. Make Learning Stick with learning games and reading fluency training over the summer. There are many things you can do at home to bridge that summer learning gap.
    1. Reading Fluency using Five Minutes to Better Reading Skills…and Yes…it only takes 5 minutes to do. Sally Shawitz, author of Overcoming Dyslexia states, "I urge parents to make fluency training their number one priority."
    2. Take a weekly trip …to the zoo, a local park, the pool, the river, a local factory…and afterwards as a family write down what you did and what your favorite part was…using the fill-in-the-blank forms from Ten Minutes to Better Study Skills and create a booklet to keep for all of your weekly trips.
    3. Do some nature activities such as listening to outdoor sounds, nature rubbings, shape hike, incher hikes … again use the fill-in-the-blank forms from Ten Minutes to Better Study Skills to describe what you found or did.
    4. Activities to do at home like making puppets and putting on a puppet show. Bake cookies together, have a backwards day where you eat dinner in the morning and breakfast in the evening, do add-on-stories. Again write down your favorite things or worse things about the activity.
    5. Have a Game Night or a Game Day…choose learning games…they are fun as well as work on skills. Some great ones are The Sentence Zone (play & learn sentence building and grammar while having fun) , The Comprehension Zone (play & learn reading comprehension and listening comprehension), or the Math Zone (play & math calculation practice).
    6. Read books together…and write a review or report on it, or have a review night where you all act as book reviewers of the book you read.
    Check out the books, games, and guides here: Reading Writing Math Bonnie Terry, M. Ed., BCET

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