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There's a really great book called Get Ready to Read that has easy little games that are age appropriate for 3 to 6 year olds that develop the skills children need to begin reading. It's out of print, but can be purchased used for cheap.

Reading aloud is the most most important thing though--20 minutes a day, every day. Get buckets of books from the library--she'll be excited by the variety and it will be great for her. Repetition is also good. If she loves hearing the same book, read it again!

As for numbers, you want your daughter to begin to develop 1-to-1 correspondence and begin recognizing that numbers are abstract representations of quantities. You also want to encourage her understanding of shapes, patterns, colors...

The Critical Thinking Company has FUN math workbooks that are appropriate for 3s and 4s. You can certainly do that--but I would also focus on having toys around that are good for her brain--magna-tiles, pattern blocks, cuisenaire rods, snap cubes, bead sequencing kits and then play with her--make a pattern and have her guess what comes next, build things together.

At 3.5 she's going to have a short attention span but it will grow and if the learning feels like playing with her dad you can probably get a good 20 minutes of focused activity out of her at a time. Start small--just 5 minutes--and do it daily if you can. That's far better than aiming for an hour of instruction once a week and having her be not in the mood. :)

Well, there are the study guides. They are expensive but lots cheaper than taking the test over and over.

The real issue, it sounds like, is that she has not been well prepared for doing reading intervention. Ask her how many sounds are in the word "car" if she says 3, she needs more phonemic awareness knowledge. She definitely needs to make sure she is teaching with blendable sounds as well. That video is from the University of Florida Literacy Initiative. I would highly recommend following them on facebook as they often post very good, up to date information for teachers regarding effective practices and interventions.

More great books: Strategies that Work, CORE Teaching Reading Sourcebook, Words Their Way, Bringing Words to Life and everything else by that author.

Now, this one is much harder, but it changed my life as a teacher. She needs to read this book. It is dense. It is hard. It covers EVERYTHING we know about how people acquire and utilize the ability to read. It also covers what can go wrong. It is fantastic. A buddy to read this with would be great. I have a study guide for this book, I read it in grad school, that I would be happy to email along if you want to pm me an email for her.

If she wants to tell me what kinds of questions she's seeing that she doesn't know, I'd be happy to send along resources or chat with her.

If I could go back in time as a senior in high school, above all, I would just do more reading, and I would read widely. I did not start on the path to English teaching until I was 26, and although I did great in college and I feel that I am a successful teacher now, my weakness is my reading background. I would suggest using an app like Goodreads so that you can track your progress as you chip away at the literary canon, work by work. The texts that are going to help you the most and serve you for the rest of your career are the ones that most authors allude to, so, I would suggest that at some point you familiarize yourself with these from a literary standpoint:

• The Bible
  
• Homer's The Iliad and The Odyssey
  
• Virgil's Aenid
  
• Ovid's Metamorphoses
  
• As many Shakespeare plays as you can read (and I just want to mention that the Cambridge School editions are the best for teaching)
  
  As far as resources that will give you a head start, I suggest:
  
  
• Shmoop (but only after you've exhausted your own abilities with a text)
  
• How to Read Literature Like a Professor
  
• How Literature Works
  
• Any Introductory Textbook to Critical Theory
  
  Considering pedagogy resources, by the time you are in an education program, there will be new research and new buzzwords, so I won't waste my time here, but these are my favorite resources when it comes to inspiring my teaching:
  
  
• Rick Wormeli (Seriously, this guy is amazing)
  
• Teach Like a Pirate
  
• Reading in the Wild
  
  Lastly, if you go into an English education program with a near-perfect understanding of grammar, your life will be so much easier. I suggest these three resources for brushing up:
  
  
• No Red Ink
  
• Teaching Grammar Through Writing
  
• Language Exploration and Awareness
  
  Good luck, and let me know if you have questions! If you do anything on this list, just read!

I second the motion to wait a year and get to know the kids and program. Also, it's good to get to know the political climate a bit and to build some networks of support with people who will be willing to put in a good word for you. Build a rapport with the kids who will tell their friends about you.

Meanwhile, use your year, which might be fairly easy, to do the following:

Here are the ELA state standards for OK. Get to know them like the back of your hand. Know which years are generally the same, and which years take a jump forward in expectations.

Read some books about how to teach in an English classroom. Write Like This and Deeper Reading from Kelly Gallagher will give you concrete strategies you can use for any grade. Some of them you could even do with mixed groups of mixed ages. Jim Burke's English Companion is also good.

While you have time and a fairly mild workload, plan, plan, plan. Put things on paper. Look into how LMS's work (my personal fave is Schoology, and I've tried at least a dozen different ones over the years) and what they can do for a classroom where kids have computer access.

Don't get discouraged if, after all this, they say no. What you have then is everything you need to walk into any regular classroom 6-12 if you decide to look for a new job. Good luck!

I recently read the book Raising Children Who Read. It's by a researcher who studies children learning to read in and out of the classroom and is research based. He goes over what sort of skills your child needs to read, what sort of practice is beneficial, how to deal with reluctant readers, ect.

For example I learned how important phonemic awareness is to sounding out words, and there are games you can play to build that, ect. Now that may or may not be your son's issue but reading the book might help you can an idea of how to gauge what is going on and what you can do.

How hard of a time is he having reading? Is there anything he can read? Can you find books that have few words and interest him, like little kids comics or something? Does he like it when you and your partner read to him so he has positive reading experiences?

It's not uncommon in Title I schools. It's also not uncommon in Title I schools to be given little guidance or resources to do your job.

Here a couple of things that are (IMO) crucial to keep in mind:
(1) You need age appropriate literature that is also at your kids' reading level. Do not insult them with "See Spot Run." NewsELA allows you to adjust the same article to different reading levels. It's a brilliant resource you should use. https://newsela.com Same for The Simthsonian's Tween Tribune. https://www.tweentribune.com

(2) I highly, highly, HIGHLY recommend Discovering Voice for middle school. https://www.amazon.com/Discovering-Voice-Lessons-Middle-School/dp/0929895894/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1502141983&sr=8-1&keywords=voice+lessons+middle+school Spend the $20 something. It comes with permission to make copies for your classroom so you only need the 1 book. It's a bunch of mini-lessons that work brilliantly at helping students read and write better with voice.

(3) Kelly Gallagher.
(a) Article of the Week http://www.kellygallagher.org/article-of-the-week/
(b) Try this book https://www.amazon.com/Reading-Reasons-Motivational-Mini-Lessons-Middle/dp/1571103562/ref=sr_1_6?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1502142077&sr=1-6
(c) And this one https://www.amazon.com/Deeper-Reading-Comprehending-Challenging-Texts/dp/1571103848/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1502142077&sr=1-3

(4) The New York Times Learning Network https://www.nytimes.com/section/learning

That should give you a more than decent start.

We're a US publisher called ThunderStone Books, and we've published Monkey Gains His Powers and Picturing Chinese, with more on the way! We are actually seeing a lot of success in the UK as well.

If you're interested, drop us a line at http://thunderstonebooks.com/submissions/ or reply to me directly.

As another commenter said, publishing in China is pretty difficult, and you'd want to go with someone in-country if you want to sell there.

hi,

I'm a huge fan of Michel Thomas paired with the Assimil with ease audio + book.

Michel Thomas Dutch

Assimil Dutch with Ease

I just came across Meer is altijd beter: A comedy for students of Dutch. It uses the most common words in Dutch, akin to Le Petit Prince. I'm looking forward to reading it.

Oh, sorry, I thought I responded to you. Guess my reply didn't go through.

Yeah, you should attempt to relearn how to read. If you're reading really slowly, then that's going to cause a lot of problems down the road. A good speed reading book will teach you how to read and how to read quickly. Could also pair it with a reading comprehension book (I personally teach from Deeper Reading and Critical Encounters in High School English. Use the Deeper reading one first. Critical Encounters is to get to college level reading while Deeper reading lays the foundation).

I have taught people how to speed read. I have taken students with 120 WPM and English as their second language and got them to read at around 500-600 WPM and now they're off in medical school. It does work. It takes time (about two months I've seen if you dedicate a small amount of time every day), but the results are worth it. Relearning a proper way to read can greatly help. While I doubt you have a reading disability, even then, this would help. Every person who came to me for help with reading speed, as long as they kept to it, eventually made it to 400 WPM at least. Several made it to 600 WPM and higher.

[Let me help you.] (https://www.amazon.com/Learn-Read-Activity-Book-Lessons/dp/1939754526)You're trying to use the same scale to judge a 4 mana and a 10 mana play.

I said that I don’t have income until my job starts, that I can’t buy groceries without money from my mother, that I am following the conditions we set. Here’s a link to a book to teach you how to read.


Learn to Read Activity Book: 101 Fun Lessons to Teach Your Child to Read https://www.amazon.com/dp/1939754526/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_1mV1DbPF456TP

Hey there, we've recently have gotten into selling Textbooks that we find at thrift stores, that sell for much more on Amazon.

There's a few here that we just recently listed, and this is our first time selling on Amazon. So I guess I am curious as to how long textbooks take to sell? Do you price them around the lowest priced one, or below?

• Textbook 1 - Bought for $2
  
• Textbook 2 - Bought for $2
  
• Textbook 3 - Bought for $0.75
  

A friend of mine wrote this book that may be helpful for you and your fellow study-abroad students.

It's a conversation dialogue book, but presents real-life situations such as having to call 911, buying tickets to various events, talking with hotel reception, and more.

https://www.amazon.com/Speaking-English-Abroad-Conversation-Situation-ebook/dp/B01I5QEF92/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1468099560&sr=1-1

Why do you think learning to write printed letters and transitioning to cursive later is "the way to go"? Nobody is taught like that in any actual Russian course. From the very beginning in school, children in Russia learn to write in cursive. From the very beginning in high school or college, foreign students learn to write in cursive. Nobody writes д the way it looks in print. There is a reason you haven't found guidelines on writing printed letters.

My advice is stop what you're doing and learn to write in cursive. This whole "wait until I'm more familiar with the language" doesn't make sense. It is not rocket science to learn cursive. You're making this out to be waaay harder than it really is. Get some Russian alphabet books on amazon, such as https://www.amazon.com/Russian-Handwriting-Propisi-Natasha-Alexandrova/dp/0982304285.

I have not begun to seriously study Dutch but I have gathered some learning materials.

• New Routledge Dutch Dictionary
  
• Essential Dutch Grammar
  
• Dutch, Basic: Learn to Speak and Understand Dutch with Pimsleur Language Programs
  
• Dutch for Dummies
  
• DUTCH for English-speaking Expats: Understand, read, write and speak Dutch
  
• Teach Yourself Beginner's Dutch
  
• Dutch for Self-Study (Prisma Taaltraining)

https://www.amazon.com/Beginners-Dari-Persian-Hippocrene-published/dp/B00EKYZ9OE

https://www.amazon.com/Dari-Grammar-Phrase-Ehsan-Entezar/dp/1450099300 (this one is really good)

https://www.amazon.com/Learn-Dari-Conversation-Reading-Vocabulary/dp/1517251478

https://www.amazon.com/Dari-Elementary-Textbook-Rahman-Arman/dp/1626161097

https://www.amazon.com/Dari-Intermediate-Textbook-Rahman-Arman/dp/1626162239

https://www.amazon.com/Dari-Second-Langauge-Conversation-Vocabulary/dp/1477445994

https://www.amazon.com/Dari-English-English-Dari-Practical-Dictionary-Second/dp/0781812844

https://www.amazon.com/Intermediate-Dari-Advanced-Introduction-Persian/dp/1439220719

https://www.amazon.com/Pimsleur-Dari-Persian-Conversational-Course/dp/0743571568

Graphic Greek Grammar Cards (English and Greek Edition) https://www.amazon.com/dp/0865165971/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_7TqcAbCN24PZM

https://www.amazon.com/Learn-Read-Activity-Book-Lessons/dp/1939754526/ref=mp_s_a_1_1_sspa?keywords=learn+to+read&qid=1558777164&s=gateway&sr=8-1-spons&psc=1

https://www.amazon.com/Learn-Read-Activity-Book-Lessons/dp/1939754526

No... circa 1955, Rudolf Flesch.

Still in publication, even ebook.

learning Arabic Alphabet is quite hard, and you should speak more to learn