<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Love your site Dave. I was a kid who failed to learn to read on schedule. After my first grade mid year report card, my dad showed me how to sound out words - it's easy (as long as you know the sounds dad). Well I did learn my sounds by listening in class and learned to read and eventually came across Zig's method of teaching at the U of I as an undergraduate student. It meant so much to me... (lots more history at U of O skipped here)...I ended up as a self taught computer programmer and did teach both my kids to read before 1st grade. I've promoted 100 Easy Lessons as well and have 2 copies yet to be distributed for free sitting right here on my desk. If you know of anyone who could benefit, I'll mail them out free of charge. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">One other thing. My neighbor's son was a very late talker and I was able to help them get him going with some very basic principles like lots of modelling and making it fun with toys involving speech. One toy that comes to mind is the dial up the animal game that will give the animal's sound when you pull the string. This little boy loved the game and got very good at predicting what sound he was about to hear based on which animal the dial was pointing to. The boy's mother is a doctor and she cried on my wife's shoulder when she realized her son should be talking at 3 years of age, but was mute. Now he doesn't stop talking. What a difference the right stuff makes.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">You deserve a lot of credit promoting what works. If there's anything I can do to help, let me know.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Joe Kuhn</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Master's Degree - Curriculum and Design, U of O.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Jul 1, 2022 at 11:35 AM Dave Ziffer <<a href="mailto:daveziffer@projectpro.com">daveziffer@projectpro.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p><font size="2"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b>Dear
DI List</b>: 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 <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/mary-damer-a2714611/" target="_blank">Mary
Damer</a>, 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 "<a href="http://www.illinoisloop.org/" target="_blank">Illinois
Loop</a>".<br>
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<p><font size="2"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">I'm
writing to alert you to the existence of a web site I produced
in late 2020: <a href="http://mychildwillread.org/" target="_blank">My Child Will Read</a>.</font></font></p>
<p>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:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://mychildwillread.org/" target="_blank">Home</a>:
the odds are against your child<br>
</li>
<li><a href="http://mychildwillread.org/the-problem.shtml" target="_blank">The
Problem</a>: 80 years of reading instruction failure in the
public schools</li>
<li><a href="http://mychildwillread.org/how-reading-works.shtml" target="_blank">How
Reading Works</a>: hieroglyphic vs. alphabetic written
languages</li>
<li><a href="http://mychildwillread.org/dyslexia.shtml" target="_blank">Dyslexia</a>:
the "disease" that even the medical community can't seem to pin
down</li>
<li><a href="http://mychildwillread.org/teach-your-child.shtml" target="_blank">Teach
Your Child</a>: how to save your own children (no school board
approval needed!)<br>
</li>
</ul>
<p>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!</p>
<p>Dave Ziffer<br>
<a href="mailto:+daveziffer@projectpro.com" target="_blank">daveziffer@projectpro.com</a></p>
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