Whole PHONICS with Clozure now in Multi-Media on the
Macintosh as well as DOS.
TLC, an interactive tutorial for ages
five to twelve by a Reading Specialist.
"Students
grew 2 to 5 grade levels in just five months!" - L. Andersen, Principal,
Pinecrest
"My own daughter can now read everything
on my desk!" - Doug Beason
"Our inner city students made
outstanding improvement in reading with TLC!" J. Lau, Ass't Principal,
LAUSD
"The kids loved the game at the end of
each lesson!" - J. Estrada
"My son was in danger of being retained
in Kindergarten. After using TLC over the Summer he became the reading tutor
for the whole First Grade!" - D. Wilson
User Friendly:
No
big manuals. Screen Driven. Tracks each student. .
Ends each lesson with success!
Phonics combined with Clozure comprehension check.
Covers one-thousand
most commonly used words
in literature.
Uses Apple's latest text-to-speech technology
(TTS)
Proven by research
Test Sites Stats
SEND EMAIL TO: rjp@readingtlc.com
PROGRAM DESIGN
- Whole phonics means that
the student never has to guess.
No deductive reasoning expected.
- Implicit
phonics - highly structured. Each lesson is based upon
previous success.
- Groups of words are
introduced based upon their phonetic structure.
- Student practices
vocabulary words a minimum of three times, more if needed.
- A copyrighted technique
called Uncover to
Discover used with polysyllabic
words.
- Copyrighted
technique teaches blending.
- Comprehension
is checked using a modified Clozure
technique..
- User rewarded by a Congratulatory
telegram, music and graphics.
- Every lesson ends with
success even if user does not reach
appointed goal.
- Upon successful
completion of a lesson user joins Leo, the Literacy Lion, in a game where they earn points.
- The user climbs the Word
Jungle ladder earning status as larger and larger creatures in a multi-cultural jungle.
- Paper Story Booklets reinforces the computer
Clozure story for the child to save as their own. (School testing booklets
are available.)
Pictures (more to be added.)
The program design is based upon learning theories the designer validated
while teaching more than 5,000 people to read. Dr. Edwin Ray Guthrie at the
University of Washington postulated that we tend to continue doing what we did
last. Our corollary is: "We learn best when the learning experience ends
in success." Simple, yet elegant! (Dr. Pournelle was Dr. Guthrie's last
graduate student.) This central theory embraced by The Literacy Connection approach shows the learner
his success at the end of EVERY lesson. Then the user is eager to return to the
task.
One
of the most difficult skills to teach and to learn in reading is called blending.
This program uses the full power of the computer to simulate what many
neuroscientists believe happens in the human brain during successful blending.
Close research led to the development of a copyrighted technique called Uncover
to Discover.
The comprehension check uses a modified version of Dr. W. Taylor's highly
acclaimed Clozure technique. The Management System in the software tracks the
student's progress and you can adjust each individual student's expected
accuracy rate.
Early
in our R&D we looked closely at optimal screen design. Varying our screen we videotaped students using the
tutorial. We discovered that including any graphics on screens where we wanted
the student focus on text lowered student accuracy by as much as 50%! All
graphics are separate from study text.
All
the research aside, this program works!
Need Macintosh 68030 or 68040 microprocessor and Hard Drive with speed of
at least 50MHz with System 7.1 or higher. Requires 4MB of RAM (Mac IIfx with
added memory or a LCIII with RAM doubled also works.)
Save yourself $25 by downloading PlainTalk off the Internet!! If you
cannot do that, add that amount to your order and we'll send the proper TTS
disks.
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