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Online Class: Help for Your Struggling Reader

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Basic Course: $31.00
with Certificate & CEUs: $56.00
This class is a combination of on-line information and consultation service to help adults who are concerned about a struggling reader. Advice and suggestions are offered for many types of reading problems and are applicable to a wide range of age groups. The goal of this course is to determine your child's areas of strength and weakness in reading, and to offer you strategies to improve the situation. Enroll today! This is a self-paced, online course. You have 6 months to finish. An instructor will monitor your progress and assess your body of work at course completion. UniversalClass™ offers many wonderful learning tools to help you get the most out of your online course, including an online portfolio service that manages all your course completions.

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Join the growing list of families who have found answers for their struggling readers!

Is your child struggling with school work?  He or she seems to be smart, but doesn't get good grades or is labeled as 'lazy' or 'slow'?  Does your child not enjoy reading the way you did when you were young?  Chances are very good that there is an underlying reading problem.  Many children read well enough to 'get by' but do not read efficiently or well.  Others hide their reading problems by acting out, by refusing to do school work, or by avoiding reading whenever possible.  There are ways to help!

Don't let another year go by without offering some help to your student.  Reading problems almost never 'go away' or become 'outgrown.'  Specialized training and practice NOW can spare your child a lifetime as a disabled reader.

Whether your student attends public or private school, or is homeschooled, sometimes standard reading instruction just isn't enough.  In this class, you'll receive the guidance of an experienced tutor to track down and remediate a wide variety of difficulties. 

This class is a combination of on-line information and consultation service to help adults who are concerned about a struggling reader. Advice and suggestions are offered for many types of reading problems and are applicable to a wide range of age groups. Enrolled participants are invited to consult, receive weekly suggestions for helping their students, and use the information for four weeks, after which they will have 'completed' the class. Participants may then re-enroll (for a reduced fee of $20 for another month) if they desire to continue to have access to the consultation and information available here.

 

 


Help for Your Struggling Reader is taught by Instructor Sandy Fleming. This class is a combination of on-line information and a consultation service to help adults who are concerned about a struggling reader. Advice and suggestions are offered for many types of reading problems and are applicable to a wide range of age groups. The goal of this course is to determine your child's areas of strength and weakness in reading, and to offer you strategies to improve the situation.

Class lessons include: Evaluating Phonemic Awareness, Auditory Processing Explanation and Evaluation, Sight Word Evaluation, Reading Skills Evaluation, Neurological Impress: A Method to Help Struggling Readers, Phrasing to Aid Comprehension and Use of Graphic Organizers.

Homework assignments and mandatory quizzes are all graded on a pass/fail basis. Optional quizzes will receive percentage/letter grades that should help you to see how well you've understood the lesson material. Certificates are available upon course completion for earned grades, participation and attendance.

Instructor Sandy Fleming has a Bachelor's Degree in Elementary Education/Mild Mental Retardation, Bowling Green State University, and a Master's Degree in Education: Mental Retardation, all levels, Learning Disabilities, Indiana University. She has six years classroom experience, and 20 years as a private tutor serving all ages/specializing in serving special needs students and troubled readers. Sandy also teaches Nurturing Your Young Reader for UniversalClass.


This course offers 1.0 CEUs upon successful completion. You may take this online course with or without CEU documentation. An online and hard-copy Certificate of Course Completion displaying your coursework and CEUs earned is included with the CEU Option. We also offer an expedited Transcript Service for sending your accomplishments to a third party.

Course Lessons

  1. Let's Get Started! - This first lesson contains an overview of how this course works and how we can work together to help your struggling reader.
  2. Evaluating Phonemic Awareness (Part I) - This lesson will guide you through the first part of the Phonemic Awareness evaluation. Everyone should complete it.
  3. Phonemic Awareness Evaluation (Part II) - This lesson continues the Phonemic Awareness portion of the evaluation. Everyone should complete it.
  4. Phonemic Awareness Evaluation (Part III) - This lesson continues the Phonemic Awareness Evaluation. Please be sure you have completed parts one and two.
  5. Auditory Processing Explanation and Evaluation - Auditory Processing is an underlying skill that causes many students to struggle with reading. Learn about its importance and discover whether your child needs additional help in this area.
  6. Sight Word Evaluation - Good command of Sight Words is essential for reading fluency. Use this information to check your reader's mastery of these common words.
  7. Reading Skills Evaluation - This portion of the evaluation will help me to see how well your child reads out loud and silently.
  8. Neurological Impress: A Method to Help Struggling Readers - Neurological Impress Method is a quick and easy method to help many readers gain fluency. It costs nothing to try and requires only a small time investment. What do you have to lose?
  9. Help for Letter Reversals - Is your child troubled by letter reversals? Here are some answers and suggestions!
  10. Alternatives and Supplements to Phonics - Is your child having trouble with phonics? There are other ways to read!
  11. Building Phonemic Awareness - Help your child learn to hear different sounds within words and to blend sounds into words.
  12. Phrasing to Aid Comprehension - Many struggling readers do not use phrasing to their advantage. Help them with this problem.
  13. Building Fluency - Help your reader build speed and confidence.
  14. Learning about Learning Style - Learning style has profound impact on how much your child can benefit from instructional activities. Learn how to match the style to the student and how to adapt and compensate when the two don't match up.
  15. Use of Graphic Organizers - Graphic organizers can be a great aid to reading comprehension. Find out how in this segment.
  16. More Class Lessons...
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Course Title : Help for Your Struggling Reader
CEU Value : (Continuing Education Units)
Course Number : 2596
Course Type : Service
Course URL : http://class.universalclass.com/rdg2
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Instructor : Sandy Fleming
Syllabus : View Syllabus
Duration : Continuous: Enroll anytime!
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Basic Course: $36.00 - Limited Time Offer: $31.00
with CEUs & Certificate: $56.00
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This is a non-credit course. This course may not fulfill any local, state, government, licensing, or educational requirements.
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