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Award-winning retired education Administrator turns three-to-eight year old reading disabled students into super readers; remotely.

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The preparation, design and proposed implementation of this program goes beyond the classroom. It focuses on early childhood education, it utilizes technology and it takes parental involvement to a whole new level. This program is a “national preschool reading initiative. It is called “The Burt Road Show” (BRS). It is a unique interactive preschool and early reading program where lessons are not only taught by highly qualified educators in formal school settings, but also made available as instructional video lessons to parents and their children via their cell phones. Parents do not just get involved - they get engaged. They employ a “see it’, “hear it”, “say it”, “write it” methodology, while completing 10 exciting reinforcement writing activities following each instructional video lesson. Preschoolers and kindergarteners learn to read and others learn to read better.
The “Burt Road Show” is anchored in over a decade of research, development, implementation and demonstrations. When used with our target student population (the lowest-performing students), we have out-performed most of the popular reading intervention programs. We have rescued students from situations where they were held hostage in mandated core reading programs that didn’t work for them. We have saved phonemically-deaf students from almost all of the popular phonics-based reading programs. We have re-motivated Sylvan Learning Center drop outs. We have even helped students recover from Reading Recovery disappointments. We even met the need to satisfy a court approved consent judgment following a parent-initiated lawsuit. The judgment called for a unique “fast acting” reading curriculum designed to “jumpstart” the stalled academic engines of incarcerated youth.

The Research is quite clear on what it takes for students to become competent readers. The five vital areas in reading instruction are phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary and comprehension. All core reading programs typically work for 60 to 80 per cent of the students and they attain (at least minimally) the above competencies. The other 20 to 40 per cent fail to reach benchmarks and therefore lack the blueprint needed to build skills to learn to read well. To build a nation of readers, we need to start by answering three fundamental questions. The first question is: Is there any help for at-risk students who defy all methodologies and attempts by highly qualified teachers to teach the essentials? The second question is, are there really different approaches for teaching reading that are not merely recycled versions of the same old traditional models? The third question is: Can we identify common characteristics of this group of “reading disabled” students which would allow us to advance a more effective pedagogy, and perhaps even accelerate the growth curve? The answer to all of these questions is yes! Our literacy partners mentioned in this proposal have proven it over the past decade.

Educators don’t always agree on remedies for our lack of success with our at-risk students in the area of reading, but there is one thing we all seem to agree on: early identification, intervention and success is critical. Between the ages of two and a half and five, children should be learning to read. It should not matter whether preschoolers are at home with mom, with a babysitter, in a preschool or head start setting. The Burt Road Show assures that if child and/or parent has access to a smart phone, their learning-to-read experience will be a joyous adventure. It will be as exciting for youngsters, their families and teachers as when they learned to walk and talk. We think cell phones will play an important part in teaching early learners to read.

Watching TV programs has been a major past time in American culture for over 65 years. Studies indicate that 70% of Americans play some form of video games. Everybody, young and old, seems to be watching more and more video screens. Pre- schoolers and kindergarteners watch video screens as much or more than adults. A research team looked at data collected from nearly 9000 preschoolers; a sample representing about 4 million children the same age and demographic. This recent research study confirms that preschoolers watch TV (and/or other video devices) on average of 4 to 5 hours every day. Overall, young children watched video screens 4.1 hours per day including 3.6 hours at home and the rest in child care.

Kids in home-based care showed the highest screen time, about 5.5 hours a day, with 1.5 of these hours in front of screens during child care. Time for kids in commercial day care was the lowest, at 3.2 daily hours. Kids cared for by their parents were only exposed 4.4 daily hours, and head start kids got 4.2 daily hours of screen time.

One third of a preschooler’s waking hours are spent in front of a television or other video devices. For over four decades early educational TV programs have tried to capitalize on the fact that for several hours each day preschoolers and kindergarteners are a captive video audience. Unfortunately, after 40 years of Head Start, all-day kindergarten and many early learning edutainment TV programs, educators and producers have failed to maximize the educational benefit television (and other video devices) could and should provide. Things will change now.

A 2005 federally mandated study of the impact of head start (and other preschools) on the later performance of school age children, concluded that children who attended head start performed no better than children who didn’t attend. There was no perceivable or measureable advantage. As a matter-of-fact, head start students showed significant deficits within the constructs of letter/sound correspondence, phonemic awareness, and fluency. The next generation of educational video programming for preschoolers “must” be more diagnostic, prescriptive, interactive, comprehensive and predictive of future academic success. “The Burt Road Show” gives birth to this next generation of educational programming.

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BURT ROAD SHOW DESCRIPTION:
There are 34 exciting fun-filled sequential twelve-minute program-lessons. Ten Independent reinforcement writing activities for each lesson are made available to students and are to be completed following each program lesson, and before the viewing of the succeeding lesson. Teachers, parents and/or tutors will use these corresponding activities in tutorial and classroom exercises. Because these exciting fun-filled lessons are accessed via the child’s (or parent’s) cell phone, they will watch and learn from where ever they are; at home, in the car, at the baby sitter’s house, at grandmother’s house, in preschool, and kindergarten classes all over the country. Independent Activities Include: Matching exercise , word cloze exercise alphabetizing, talking book, word illustrations, phrase cloze exercise , coloring sheets, word review sentence illustrations, scrambled sentences, word search, unit review, illustrated booklet, instructional reader and flash cards cut-out activities.
We know the activities preschoolers enjoy, and The Burt Road Show has combined those activities in a unified and comprehensive way to assure early learning-to-read success. Young children like to sing, to dance, to color, to draw, to laugh, to play, to cut with scissors and maybe most of all, they like to watch TV and to interact with video devices. The Burt Road show unifies these elements, and like pieces to a puzzle the reading process is experienced and understood by preschoolers. Children sing and dance to the rhythm of their victory song, “Hey, I can read.” When they draw, they illustrate sentences contained in the lesson. When they laugh, it’s because lessons like the soft “C” centipede with more legs than it needs are very humorous. When they use scissors, they are taking ownership of new vocabulary words by making their own flashcards. Children, parents and educators quickly realize that reading really is FUN-damental, even for at-risk children with unusual learning styles.

The Burt Road Show follows a time-tested and proven instructional procedure and utilizes various reading methodologies controlled simultaneously throughout the cell phone video lessons. The use of phonics, whole word, whole language, language experience and a tight control of sentence structure, story content and repetition, assures that each child’s need is met. Each TV and online program lesson is designed with possible or potential learning difficulties in mind. Teachers, parents and tutors can relax because they know we are accommodating every learning style.

Award-winning retired education Administrator turns three-to-eight year old reading disabled students into super readers; remotely.

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Award-winning retired education Administrator turns three-to-eight year old reading disabled students into super readers; remotely.

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