di: "My Child Will Read" web site: alerting parents about "Teach Your Child ..."

[Sheila Chaplin]

Hi Dave,

That's great what you have done.  You are still swimming against the
current.
When my children were also having trouble with reading about 15 years ago,
I went with Teach Your Child To Read in 100 Easy Lessons...so I also know
from experience that it works.

I would just add references to Siegfried Englemann and Direct Instruction
to your site, to give background on the method, since Direct Instruction
works on more than only reading and was proven to work. Maybe on the page
that you explain Project Follow Through?   Here are 3 links...

Zig's Homepage (zigsite.com)... https://zigsite.com/index.html
<https://zigsite.com/index.html>
Siegfried "Zig" Engelmann | Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/ZigEngelmann>
...https://www.facebook.com/ZigEngelmann
Memorial set for Direct Instruction creator ‘Zig’ Engelmann | Around the O
(uoregon.edu)
<https://around.uoregon.edu/content/memorial-set-direct-instruction-creator-zig-engelmann>
....
https://around.uoregon.edu/content/memorial-set-direct-instruction-creator-zig-engelmann

Best,
Sheila

On Fri, Jul 1, 2022 at 12:35 PM Dave Ziffer <daveziffer at projectpro.com>
wrote:

> *Dear DI List*: My name is Dave Ziffer. I was one of the parent warriors
> in the "reading wars" of the 1990s. I was introduced to the DI curricula
> and to this list by Mary Damer
> <https://www.linkedin.com/in/mary-damer-a2714611/>, who you probably know
> much better than you do me. Both of us lived in Illinois at the time and we
> were both activists and contributors to the Illinois-based group "Illinois
> Loop <http://www.illinoisloop.org/>".
>
> I'm writing to alert you to the existence of a web site I produced in late
> 2020: My Child Will Read <http://mychildwillread.org/>.
>
> The purpose of the site is to alert parents to the idea that they should
> teach their own children how to read using "Teach Your Child To Read In 100
> Easy Lessons" rather than waiting for their children's schools to fail
> them. Since most parents have no idea what's going on, most of the site is
> dedicated to alerting them to the problem. The five primary pages are:
>
>    - Home <http://mychildwillread.org/>: the odds are against your child
>    - The Problem <http://mychildwillread.org/the-problem.shtml>: 80 years
>    of reading instruction failure in the public schools
>    - How Reading Works
>    <http://mychildwillread.org/how-reading-works.shtml>: hieroglyphic vs.
>    alphabetic written languages
>    - Dyslexia <http://mychildwillread.org/dyslexia.shtml>: the "disease"
>    that even the medical community can't seem to pin down
>    - Teach Your Child <http://mychildwillread.org/teach-your-child.shtml>:
>    how to save your own children (no school board approval needed!)
>
> Please feel free to provide constructive criticism, to use the site for
> your own purposes, and/or promote the site if you feel it is worthwhile.
> Thanks!
>
> Dave Ziffer
> daveziffer at projectpro.com <+daveziffer at projectpro.com>
>
>
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