Stride Ahead: An Aid to Comprehension

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Often these students become very adept at disguising their poor reading skills. They use ‘guesswork’ allied with contextual clues to get meaning. Because these ‘guesswork’ techniques hide a student’s poor reading skills, often their teachers are not even aware that the student has a problem. The next time the student read there is almost always a huge improvement in both speed and accuracy. She divided the children into two groups. A control group where conventional methods were used, and her ‘guinea pigs’, where Keda tried anything and everything to see what would work.

We believe this is the result of their minds being too occupied with the mechanics of decoding the written language. It leaves them unable to give adequate attention to the meaning of the text. So, if a student is struggling to reach a particular target (and showing real signs of frustration in the process), do the following: Being able to read without fully understanding the content, context and meaning of a text potentially disadvantages a student. It is absolutely critical that students can both understand and gain meaning from text. For fluent readers it is easy. It is as if the actual words are invisible. When reading, all they do is absorb information. However, there are many students who - although they have the necessary decoding skills to read - they still find reading a laborious, unrewarding activity. A. Students with reading difficulties will establish a word in their short term memory. However, they are likely to forget it just as easily unless we fix the word in their long term memory. Keda Cowling, creator of the Toe by Toe manual, was born in 1926 in West Yorkshire, attending school during the depression of the 1930s. Sadly, like many others, she was denied the chance to take up a scholarship at the local grammar school. Although forced to leave school early for financial reasons, Keda maintained a love for school and her books. She never lost this passion or her burning desire to become a teacher.A. We recommend 20-30 minutes for a Toe By Toe session. However, as anyone who has worked with severely dyslexic students will know, even 20 minutes may be much too long. The key element for optimum results is frequency. Even 10-minute sessions done on a daily basis will yield tremendous results. Many students reach a ‘reading plateau’. They have good reading skills, but still face problems in understanding text content and extracting meaningful information from it. This has consequences for a student across all subjects in test and examination situations. For maturer students, it can also impact on their ability to do their job competently and effectively. BUSY MINDS From decades of experience, we believe it is more natural and far easier for struggling readers to discriminate between the various sounds by using the schwa. Keda realised very early on in her research that struggling readers need to make a clear distinction between sounds. She found it is NOT a problem for them to transfer these more distinct sounds to words later. Non-trained staff or parents find it much easier (more natural, perhaps?) to demonstrate the sound in this way. For example, the precise sound of the letter ‘L’ causes much confusion for student and tutor alike. However, if tutors prefer to follow the conventional wisdom that’s OK – Toe By Toe will still work its magic!

Students of all ages attend school and colleges to learn. To learn from text, you need the ability to read. Often these students become so adept at disguising their poor reading skills (by guesswork allied with contextual clues) that their teachers may not even be aware that they have a problem. In effect, they are on a ‘reading plateau’ and they often remain there throughout their school careers and on into their adult life. A. For motivational purposes, it is essential that students maintain a sense of momentum and progress. This is especially the case with teenagers. The Stride Ahead Manual is for anyone who can read, but who still has difficulty in understanding what they read.

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Anne’s vision for Stride Ahead is for everyone who interacts with the organization to benefit from it; that each client, horse, volunteer, donor, vendor, or ally moves closer to their fullest potential as a result of their experience with Stride Ahead. We refute this charge. Our counter is how do most words enter a person’s vocabulary? Surely, ‘Barking at Print’ is how we all start to read in the first place? A. No. Words that have been spelt incorrectly (“negatives”) need only go through RAWS on one occasion, on one condition. That students are able to spell the words correctly on 5 consecutive occasions (see above). In practice, some negatives will go through RAWS only once. Others may need to go through the procedure many times. A. Both manuals can be used in the same lesson. However, we recommend alternating between a reading lesson one day and a spelling lesson on the next. Alternatively, some people prefer to finish or partially complete Toe by Toe before starting Stareway.

Toe by Toe is an easy to use literacy manual which has given thousands of children, teens and adults with reading difficulties the gift of reading. Toe by Toe genuinely changes lives – and;t take it from us, read the testimonials of others. RAPIDLY IMPROVE READING SKILLS IN JUST 20 MINUTES A DAYStride Ahead is the perfect tool to help these particular students. Studying Stride Ahead helps students to increasingly blank out the white noise of written text (that is, the minor details of a text). It is the worrying over the ‘minor detail’ of a text that distracts a student from achieving the main object of reading a text: understanding it and extracting meaning from it.

It is a good idea to challenge them to see how many consecutive words they can read perfectly before stumbling. A. As in the previous answer, both manuals can be used in the same lesson. Again, we recommend alternating between a reading lesson one day and a spelling lesson on the next. Alternatively, some people prefer to finish or partially complete Stride Ahead before starting Stareway. A. We believe that the proportion of students who cannot learn to read using Toe By Toe is minuscule. As long as a coach follows the instructions to the letter, Toe By Toe can successfully help almost any child to read. Where the scheme ‘fails’ it is often for traced to two causes:

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Regardless of the nature of literacy problems, everyone can be taught to read using Toe By Toe. It requires only 20 minutes of coaching a day and you’ll see immediate improvements in your child’s reading confidence. It can be used by parents or by teachers – you don’t need to be a trained educator to help a child read with Toe By Toe. The beauty of Toe By Toe is that it can be studied at home. Almost anyone can teach it. You don’t need to be a qualified teacher. A parent. A family member or friend. Even a sibling. Almost anyone could be a mentor, teaching struggling readers how to read. All exercises are easily followed and everything is clearly explained. If the child is younger than 7 we would suggest that you do the following. ‘Drill’ the short and long vowel sounds and the initial consonant blends until there is little or no hesitation beforehand. This would be adequate preparation for the first part of the book. It would ensure that they got off to the ‘flying start’ which can be so important for confidence and motivation. Stride Ahead has been written for students who can read but have difficulty in understanding what they are reading. I believe that this is the result of their minds being too taken up with the mechanics of decoding the written language to be able to give adequate attention to meaning. A. Stride Ahead is more suitable for older students, usually secondary school students or adults. However, some primary schools also use it in years 5 and 6 (age 10 or 11 years old).