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CLOSING THE G•A•P©

Guaranteed Applied Phonics

for

READING SUCCESS

MISSION STATEMENT

With a Reading TOOL©

in hand, everyone has the opportunity to close the achievement

G•A•P

with

Guaranteed

Applied

Phonics.

A simple tool can make any

job easier!

In just a few days you will be able to measure the achievement and the progress of a struggling reader if you will follow a simple plan called the 2•3•4 RULE for Reading Success.

Tools are meant to fix something and you will find Gabby, the TOOL, user friendly in both of my small reading resource books. This reading TOOL builds on the foundation of learned skills, from kindergarten through second grade. You will not use it to teach phonics, rather to show students how to use the phonics skills they've developed. You'll see him on the Product page with a short message for students. His goal is comprehension!

Parents, teachers, tutors, older siblings, grandparents: each of you, with the TOOL, can be the one to give the gift of a lifetime. . . independent reading ability! Nationwide grade level reading skills are declining but that doesn't have to be a statistic in your role as helper for special readers.

HOME EDUCATION is what parents do day in and day out, molding character, teaching values and encouraging excellence in school. Being a partner to your student, with the reading TOOL, will help you intervene in success where someone else has failed. You won't find a better option for the money, with a TOOL to do the work for you. While reading together, your supporting role is to ask an important question when a word is pronounced incorrectly.

In short, the 2•3•4 RULE gets readers over those speed-bump words that often create brain freeze in the middle of a sentence. The ears will be fully involved! (Shhh. . . . . don't tell students yet! The habit of critical listening slips smoothly into the process.) With the 2•3•4 RULE, timid readers will use the very same elementary phonics skills learned through second grade. The sounds students have learned from kindergarten through second grade have been preserved for longer and harder words.

Have you ever found a new tool to be the wrong size or too clumsy, or just a huge disappointment? All my many students, who want you to believe they have mastered decoding, have grinned sheepishly and grabbed the reading TOOL again to find more and more pronounceable chunks of print, like fluent readers do. A TOOL that fits in the palm of one hand and adjusts with the other is hard to beat. It is not yet another electronic gadget to add to the mix. No batteries or cords required, just a sleeve and a slide that shows students how to make a slight shift in pronouncing new words.

After years of practice with students of all ages, I'm compelled to introduce Gabby as a useful TOOL like any other creative development that makes a job easier. It is the missing link I could have used years ago while teaching third grade. Sharing the Closing the G•A•P program with you fuels my passion for reading success in children who can't advance to that next reading group, or who shrink into their chairs when asked to read aloud. All the struggling readers I know just want to read like their friends and achieve like their friends, or siblings.

FINALLY . . . If you have been unsure about your role in helping a student be a better reader, Gabby has come to your rescue!