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Learning to Read and Write with Imelda

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The state of education today is more and more about a political agenda rather than teaching and learning the basics of reading and writing, arithmetic and mathematics, history and literature and the sciences. I created this Rumble channel Learning to Read and Write with Imelda to help parents and teachers to teach children to read especially those with special needs. I have been a teacher in both a homeschool and formal school settings since 1982. I taught all five of my boys to read in the homeschool setting. Two are special needs, one deaf whom we adopted at nine years old who could not read nor write and the other, my eldest son, is Mosaic Down Syndrome. This series of videos is a program I have adapted from the many phonetic and spelling programs available taking the proven best parts and blending them together to create a program that is easy to follow and will enable the child to read quickly usually by the end of the first semester. I also included a special sign language developed by Dr. Cornet called "Cued Speech" which enables any deaf person to learn to read English as well as communicate orally. The entire program consists of learning to teach the 70 basic spellings of the sounds of the English language and the letters which produce that sound. The child learns to hear, see, speak, and write the spelling as they learn each phoneme. I also have produced flash card like cards for you to learn these sounds and to learn Cued Speech notations which will help not only the deaf and hard of hearing, but also special needs children who need the visual cueing in order to learn. Enjoy!