National Right to Read Summary on Easy Steps to Reading
Easy Steps to Reading
(ESR) is an innovative, multi-sensory program designed for teachers and parents.It appeals to children with different learning styles, and therefore children who learn better by seeing, hearing, or touching are all able to achieve results.Children learn phonetic elements through use of visual cues, interactive movements, and memory devices.ESR teaches children to start at the vowel and blend that vowel sound with the end of the syllable before putting on the initial sound.This inside out approach to reading cuts the word attach process in half and makes reading extremely easy to teach and learn, even for children as young as three or four.Over the past twenty years, ESR has been proven effective for children with mild to severe learning disabilities including dyslexia, ADHD, central auditory processing, and other neurological problems.Recently, in a pilot kindergarten reading program in a Pennsylvania suburb, most children were reading second and third grade paragraphs in addition to sounding out SAT words after only twenty hours of instruction.
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