<div dir="ltr">Hi Dave,<div><br></div><div>That's great what you have done. You are still swimming against the current.</div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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...</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://zigsite.com/index.html">Zig's Homepage (zigsite.com)... https://zigsite.com/index.html</a> <br></div><div><a href="https://www.facebook.com/ZigEngelmann">Siegfried "Zig" Engelmann | Facebook</a>...<a href="https://www.facebook.com/ZigEngelmann">https://www.facebook.com/ZigEngelmann</a><br></div><div><a href="https://around.uoregon.edu/content/memorial-set-direct-instruction-creator-zig-engelmann">Memorial set for Direct Instruction creator ‘Zig’ Engelmann | Around the O (uoregon.edu)</a>.... <a href="https://around.uoregon.edu/content/memorial-set-direct-instruction-creator-zig-engelmann">https://around.uoregon.edu/content/memorial-set-direct-instruction-creator-zig-engelmann</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Sheila</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Jul 1, 2022 at 12:35 PM 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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