After I attended Nora’s webinar in the spring of 2022, I had trouble sleeping that night. I was so intrigued and excited. I wanted this training!! I reached out to EBLI for more information multiple times. I still wanted to be sure, so they even provided people that were trained that I could reach out to. These ladies were so generous with their time. I wanted to know how EBLI is so different from what I’d been doing and these ladies had so many good things to say! One woman even wrote a book about her experiences! I teach older students, and I wanted a more efficient, effective way to teach them! I was blessed to be able to start the training last summer and use EBLI with my students this past year! Nora and the team are wonderful! I could go on about this! I’m so grateful!
Nora, you rock! You are one of the fastest talkers I’ve ever heard. Do you have your sound-spelling instructional sequence we could look at? Would help us understand the 12 hour pacing.
Thank you Mark for your kind words. I try to be mindful at slowing down my talking-mostly unsuccessfully I must say! We do have an EBLI scope and sequence for classroom as well as remediation (3 different tracks) instruction. We do not share them for a number of reasons, the top one being that the efficiency of the student progress/gains are because of the integrated instructional process used in instruction, not the content. Even those trained in EBLI are well into the lessons before they really get a clear understanding of the process. When we have shared the scope and sequence in the past with schools or districts interested in EBLI, they are taken aback by the speed as they are looking at it from the lens of how they currently teach. The Say, Spell, Read process, while simple, is certainly a paradigm shift for most!
Great and interesting way to learn to read!! I have a little boy of 7 that has difficulty reading(I'm dyslectie so that could be an explination) he might be dyslectic to... now the complicated pard is that we are a Dutch familie that lives in France.. so my question is is there an ebly training we can use for reading the franch language?? Merci! Rachna
I homeschool my 9 year old daughter who is a strong reader, but spelling is below level. I suspect a leaning disability? Because im in Canada the public schools don’t help. She is currently doing all about reading and all about spelling. Are those good?
🤣I wish I would have known this. I just need to comment. I realize this is not the same. Working with my struggling 2nd grade granddaughter at the time. She had learned a lot of her letter sounds. We were word chaining with at. So started with at, bat, cat, fat, hat, mat, rat, sat. Not really knowing if she was catching on. After sat she starts writing. At, fat, far, fast, then fart, then just laughed hysterically. Never was so happy in my life.
Am I missing something here? I am absolutely squirming as I watch Nora try to teach 'graduate' to Darius. There is so much wrong with this!!! How can a child follow this if Darius cannot understand what she's trying to do? There is no logic here that I can see. I, as well as probably 99.5% of reading teachers, will use this strategy for spelling but in a logical way that teaches the sound-to-symbol correspondence first and builds up step by step using the pattern taught and looking at words with that pattern. A child does not know spelling rules unless they are taught them explicitly. Breaking down words into their individual parts is absolutely fundamental, but the child needs to learn which letters represent which sounds. Darius knows that page ends with a 'ge'. Kids don't know that unless they are taught it, so I cannot for the life of me see how she is saying she can teach a child in 12 hours how to read. Not possible in my 20 years of experience teaching kids how to read but interesting to watch nevertheless. I would love to be proved wrong on this.
If you want to skip to the part where Nora did a demonstration on how she teaches reading click here 1:06:52
It's so nice to watch an interview by an open-minded, curious, and teachable questioner.
Nora is a visionary. Her ability to synthesize research, apply it to her practice, and teach that to others is truly a gift to the world.
After I attended Nora’s webinar in the spring of 2022, I had trouble sleeping that night. I was so intrigued and excited. I wanted this training!! I reached out to EBLI for more information multiple times. I still wanted to be sure, so they even provided people that were trained that I could reach out to. These ladies were so generous with their time. I wanted to know how EBLI is so different from what I’d been doing and these ladies had so many good things to say! One woman even wrote a book about her experiences! I teach older students, and I wanted a more efficient, effective way to teach them! I was blessed to be able to start the training last summer and use EBLI with my students this past year! Nora and the team are wonderful! I could go on about this! I’m so grateful!
Nora, you rock! You are one of the fastest talkers I’ve ever heard. Do you have your sound-spelling instructional sequence we could look at? Would help us understand the 12 hour pacing.
Thank you Mark for your kind words. I try to be mindful at slowing down my talking-mostly unsuccessfully I must say!
We do have an EBLI scope and sequence for classroom as well as remediation (3 different tracks) instruction. We do not share them for a number of reasons, the top one being that the efficiency of the student progress/gains are because of the integrated instructional process used in instruction, not the content. Even those trained in EBLI are well into the lessons before they really get a clear understanding of the process. When we have shared the scope and sequence in the past with schools or districts interested in EBLI, they are taken aback by the speed as they are looking at it from the lens of how they currently teach. The Say, Spell, Read process, while simple, is certainly a paradigm shift for most!
Thank you. I am an OG tutor. I will look into this, but immediately I can use it for the spelling potion of my lessons.
Great and interesting way to learn to read!! I have a little boy of 7 that has difficulty reading(I'm dyslectie so that could be an explination) he might be dyslectic to... now the complicated pard is that we are a Dutch familie that lives in France.. so my question is is there an ebly training we can use for reading the franch language?? Merci! Rachna
So the 12 hours is if the child or adult already has had early training, explicit phonic instruction before using this ELBI instruction?
I homeschool my 9 year old daughter who is a strong reader, but spelling is below level. I suspect a leaning disability? Because im in Canada the public schools don’t help. She is currently doing all about reading and all about spelling. Are those good?
🤣I wish I would have known this. I just need to comment. I realize this is not the same. Working with my struggling 2nd grade granddaughter at the time. She had learned a lot of her letter sounds. We were word chaining with at. So started with at, bat, cat, fat, hat, mat, rat, sat. Not really knowing if she was catching on. After sat she starts writing. At, fat, far, fast, then fart, then just laughed hysterically. Never was so happy in my life.
Am I missing something here? I am absolutely squirming as I watch Nora try to teach 'graduate' to Darius. There is so much wrong with this!!! How can a child follow this if Darius cannot understand what she's trying to do? There is no logic here that I can see. I, as well as probably 99.5% of reading teachers, will use this strategy for spelling but in a logical way that teaches the sound-to-symbol correspondence first and builds up step by step using the pattern taught and looking at words with
that pattern. A child does not know spelling rules unless they are taught them explicitly. Breaking down words into their individual parts is absolutely fundamental, but the child needs to learn which letters represent which sounds. Darius knows that page ends with a 'ge'. Kids don't know that unless they are taught it, so I cannot for the life of me see how she is saying she can teach a child in 12 hours how to read. Not possible in my 20 years of experience teaching kids how to read but interesting to watch nevertheless. I would love to be proved wrong on this.