How many of you have a child that struggles to read? As a parent and an educator, it is very important to understand that not every student learns the same way. Forcing a child to read over and over again, does NOT fix the problem – in fact it will just push the student away after each mistake is made. If you and your child are frustrated when it comes to reading, then the Touchtile™ Reading System from Learning Link Technologies is the answer.
Parents often are at odds as to what to do to help a student who is struggling to read. They buy workbooks and have the student read more. They get extra help from school. They may even think that their child just isn’t working hard enough. But that is rarely the case, and by forcing a frustrated student to read more and faster, damage can be done.
Students need to have numerous skills to read efficiently. They must have phonemic awareness, which is the ability to recognize that a spoken word is composed of a sequence of individual sounds (phonemes). Children without phonemic awareness skills will have difficulty in decoding words.
They also need to hold pictures and sounds in their memory as well as have symbol recognition, visual discrimination, auditory discrimination, and the ability to combine all of these skills so that a word, sentence, or paragraph has meaning.
It is no wonder some students struggle to read!
In order to read well, a student must also have strong visual and auditory processing skills. If a student has a weaknesses in any one of these areas, reading can become extremely difficult. If students are having trouble they will usually resort to using tactile methods to read. They touch each word or they bob their heads at each word. Reading becomes so difficult that they quit trying to sound out words and instead resort to guessing. It is just too difficult to decode.
At this point a breakdown occurs, and the student is left falling behind in every subject, because reading is important for all subjects in school as well as for life skills.
But the Touchtile™ Reading System can fix this.
How does the TouchTile™ Reading System work?
Students are taught how to read using a touch and slide method. It is rich in phonemic awareness and is fun and easy to use. The tiles are printed in a downloadable workbook and the student simply touches a tile and says the sound. Then the student slides all of the sounds together to make a word.
This touching and sliding is perfect for poor readers, because it takes them all the way back to basic phonemic units and by touching each tile, the student relates the sound to the individual letter. Guessing is eliminated and adding additional letters can’t occur, either. Nonsense words are added as a component that strengthens decoding skills.
This system is sequential. It starts with basic letter sounds, consonant, vowel consonant words, blends, silent e, endings, and multi-syllabic words.
Who would use this System?
- Students are who at the beginning stages of reading.
- Students who need to improve their reading skills
- Students who have a learning difference
- Students with autism, dyslexia, and even with “drug babies” whose parents were told they would never learn to read.
All of the students who have used this system have shown tremendous improvement! Most jump 1 to 2 grade levels within three months.
By breaking the whole skill of reading into smaller components and offering students a touch and slide method to reading, students gain fluency and comprehension because they are not working so hard to read.
In just 15 minutes a day, student will show reading improvement.
The Touchtile™ Reading System consists of six levels:
Each level is a separate PDF document (which is what you purchasing).
- Level One – Consonants, vowels, and blending
Teaches the student all letter sounds as well as how to blend two sounds together.
- Level Two – CVC pattern
Teaches the student how to blend three sounds together with a consonant, vowel, consonant pattern. The system is designed so that the student will naturally learn phonemic patterns that are essential to reading success.
- Level Three – Blends and digraphs
Teaches the student how to blend four sounds together with an emphasis on blends and digraphs.
- Level Four -Long E
Teaches the student how to successfully use the silent e at the end of words.
- Level Five -Endings
Teaches the student how to add endings to words. Endings cause extreme distress to most poor readers, and they often leave them off of the word completely.
- Level Six -Multi-Syllable Words
Teaches the student how to blend multi-syllabic words. Multi-syllabic words prove to be especially challenging to struggling readers, and this system will help them successfully learn to sound out words with more than one syllable.
My Thoughts
As I mentioned above, the Touchtile Reading System is provided to the consumer in SIX pdf documents. It is a multi stage approach to developing reading skills. Each document in completed in order of the levels listed above.
This digital product which has an immense amount of work gone into testing, producing and advertising is definitely priceless to the right audience. As a parent, I know that I would to ends of this earth as long as my child was happy. And someday that happiness could be equivalent to learning how to read.
There is no set way in how to teach a child how to read, and this educational therapy product “helps” in so many ways imaginable. My oldest daughter who turned 3 years old this past February, has such a passion for reading and she absolutely loves the Level One activities. Not only does it provide us some good mommy-daughter bonding time ~ it also provides an incredible learning experience to encourage her passion for literacy.
I would highly recommend this program for any child that is learning to read or looking into improving their reading skills. It is a very easy to use program that is amazing at helping kids reach their goals and have fun at the same time.
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Now for the give away…Learning Link Technologies would like to giveaway their Touchtile™ Reading System (a $197 value) to ONE Frugal Fabulous Finds reader.
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Post published by Melissa Roach, our Product Review & Giveaway Specialist.
Melissa is a Full Time Mom & Blogger HERE (please check out her blog!)
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