Companies in scarsdale,ny, United States |
|
Short by: Alphabetic | Date |
|
|
| Montessori Educators Launch Free On-Line Reading Lessons
Free reading lessons are now available on-line, thanks to Montessori Home, Inc. The interactive website features 40 mini lessons geared to beginning readers and is available at www.LearnToReadFree.com.
Montessori educators and child development specialists foresee this project as becoming the go-to website for beginning readers and their parents throughout the world. Lessons are currently available in English, with URL’s in Chinese, Spanish, French and other languages introducing the learn to read English course/
”Our free on-line website is totally child-safe,” said Bob Korngold, co-founder of Montessori Home, Inc. “All that’s needed for sign-up is for a parent to go the website and follow the instructions. There are no fees or obligations. But the lessons may also be purchased on CDs at a nominal charge since some parents do not approve of their children engaging in Internet activity.”
The on-line phonics-based, programmed reading curricula grew from the Phoenix Program Reading Workbooks that have been popular in public schools for the past 25 years. Montessori Home produces Montessori reading products and licensed electronic rights to Phoenix Program Reading Workbooks.
Korngold assembled an Internet team to bring the concept to computers with interactivity, animation and audio. The system can track children’s progress and allows them to proceed at their own pace.
Educators carefully designed the lessons around 55 words Montessori believes are the primary building blocks leading to eventual full reading ability. Using interactive word games, questions and answers, Ducky, the animated reading tutor, helps children pronounce and read simple words phonetically. The words lead to sentences as the children finish lessons and proceed to a higher reading level.
Korngold founded Montessori Home, Inc. with his wife, Carole Wolfe Korngold, founder and director of the New York’s Center for Montessori Education, the largest school in the U.S. for certification of teachers in the Montessori method. The school has graduated more than 6,000 teachers and Mrs. Korngold is currently training more than 55 teachers in San Juan, Puerto Rico. She is a past president of the American Montessori Society and was voted their highest honor, The Living Legacy.
Montessori Home Inc. provides regular and interactive books, reading cards and electronic reading games on CD and is finalizing development of a DVD product. Montessori Home is affiliated with FamilyLiteracyGroups.org, a non-profit website launched to promote literacy.
AT www.learntoreadfree.com
where children learn to read their first 55 words,
and start on the road to reading and a lifelong love of learning.
a
did
had
in
Nip
pit
tan am
dish
ham
is
nip
sad
tap an
fan
hand
it
on
Sam
that and
fast
has
man
pan
sat
the Ann
fat
hid
map
pant
ship
thin ant
fish
him
mat
pat
sing
this can
fit
his
mint
pig
sit
tin cat
had
hit
nap
pin
Tab
tip
a am an and Ann ant can cat
did dish fan fast fat fish fit had
had ham hand has hid him his hit
in is it man map mat mint nap
Nip nip on pan pant pat pig pin
Montessori Home Inc.
25 Roxbury Road
Scarsdale, NY 10583
www.montessorihome.com
914.472.9849
Bob Korngold
Founder More... |
|
|
[1]
|
|
