Issue 13: The Dystinct Journey of Nancy and Catie Dressel Paid Members Public
The story of Nancy Dressel, a neurodiverse mum who desperately tried to seek help for her children's ongoing challenges with learning difficulties for over a decade. When help finally arrived in the form of a 3-day EBLI workshop, it ended up changing her life too.
Issue 13: Journey to Structured Linguistic Literacy | Julie VanLier Paid Members Public
Julie VanLier, a kindergarten teacher at a high-poverty school in Southwest Michigan, shares the story of how her class of 28 students went from "on track for reading failure" to 20 points above the goal when she made the switch from Balanced Literacy to EBLI.
Issue 13: How and Why a Structured Linguistic Literacy Approach Closes the Gap Quickly | Nora Chahbazi Paid Members Public
Nora Chahbazi describes the logic underpinning the efficiency of the Structured Linguistic Literacy approach and demonstrates how it differs from the two other widely known approaches to reading instruction; Balanced Literacy and Traditional Phonics.
Issue 13: On a Mission | Nora Chahbazi Paid Members Public
Nora Chahbazi recounts her journey of how she went from being a Neonatal ICU nurse to establishing EBLI and making teaching to read her life's work.
Issue 13: The Dystinct Journey of Flynn Eldridge Paid Members Public
The story of how 10-year-old Flynn Eldridge has found his "bright" and "quirky" back after a rough start to school. His parents, Carrie and Anthony Eldridge reveal how they homeschool their neurodiverse children and support them in pursuing their passions.
Issue 13: Journey to Structured Linguistic Literacy | Nicki Prati Paid Members Public
Nicki Prati shares how Structured Linguistic Literacy helped lift the burden of cognitive overload and lightened the process of learning to read for her daughter, who spent years unsuccessfully trying to achieve mastery using various programs based on Print to Speech approaches.
Issue 13: Supporting Structured Linguistic Literacy at home with games and decodable reading books | Clair Wilson Paid Members Public
Clair Wilson emphasises the importance of step-by-step progression in literacy instruction and lists some engaging ways of reinforcing instruction with games and activities to help beginner and struggling readers along their journey to independent reading.
Issue 13: Then and Now: How Linguistic Phonics and EBLI have transformed my literacy instruction | Jennifer Newman Paid Members Public
Jennifer Newman describes the various elements of EBLI instruction and how adopting a shift from Print to Speech to Speech to Print orientation has made a significant difference in her students' acquisition of foundational reading and spelling skills.
